A well made PC power supply

[loljaosi]

Where can you get these Zippy power supplies?

[Maxxarcade]

@loljaosi I got this one off Ebay. Not sure where you would normally get them, because they usually come installed in servers from what I can tell.

[HQA0]

I have been thinking of getting a new power supply. Which company would you recomend?

[Maxxarcade]

@HQA0 For general use, I like Silverstone quite a bit. Corsair is also decent. Zippy power supplies like this are more geared towards servers.

[HQA0]

@Maxxarcade ok thanks

[louloudebe]

@HQA0 All depend on the use of it silvestone seasonics enermax corsair antec, forton all pretty good, exepted few models detail your component I will give you the best referency

[HQA0]

@louloudebe Its going to be a pc used for internet and some gaming. I am using an amd processor. Thanks for your help

[louloudebe]

@HQA0 Then Antec High Current Gamer Series, 520 W if your GPU is a GTX560Ti or smaller otherise you may get the 620 or a 560W Xseries of seasonic much more expensive but a great quality.

[mark902]

nice lian li case. i have a... i forget the model, but it's similar. i don't think i'll ever buy another case again.

[MixerVM]

Power supplies should be built like this:

United Chemi-Con capacitors

Several huge heatsinks

A high quality fan

= Good PC Power supply

[haz939]

When I watched this video my power supply failed!! No really talk about ironic. I guess it was not a well made power supply.

[Mbit100]

i use a 550 Watt server PSU in my PC it runs really nice

[MilesPrower88]

I had a G5 Imac a few months ago, the CPU heatsink was right beside the power supply (no metal closure or divider), and thats not all. The Heatsink blasted 60+ degree celcius heat right onto it.. Blown capacitors out the ass on that thing. not good.

[Maxxarcade]

@MilesPrower88 Wow, I've heard of iMac's having bad caps, but I've never worked on one. Hope you can get it going again!

[TroniPhile]

@Maxxarcade Yes, unfortunately these iMac G5s were notorious for bad caps. :(

[Honthetube]

@MilesPrower88 the power pc 9xx series and confined spaces where not a good mix... the G5 power macs where much better designed and equipped to deal with there thermal issues... however they were not without there own achilles heels, two of the major ones being the cheaply made lite-on PSU's leading to a premature death or the later generation ones developing leaks in the liquid cooling system due to poor welding on the pipe work or perishing O-rings causing a nasty leak.

[woodenotaku]

personally i like Delta power supplies. have had 4 of them and only one has failed on me after 13 years of service.

[Maxxarcade]

@woodenotaku Yep, I like Delta too. I wish I could find ones that are 350-700W. Most I've seen are small OEM ones that range from 110W-250W. HP used to use a lot of them in the late 90's to early 2000's.

[vangstaz]

Why can't every power supply be built like that?

[TehMG]

I've seen power supplies with no chokes/inductors or capacitors whatsoever on the mains AC input side before the bridge rectifier, as well as no choke on the output, just capacitors.

I've tested and the results were atrocious! 3Vp-p of ringing around 3MHz, 200mV of the 47kHz square wave switching component, and even 386mV of 120Hz ripple!

It was a power brick meant for external hard drive, but I've seen PC power supplies as bad. Video (incl. waveforms) on my other account mturgeon2 tomorrow.

[cumesoftware]

Very well built indeed!

[Area51XP]

PC Power & Cooling, Inc. FOR THE WIN! I only buy these.. never had any problems period!

[TheAgroom]

Yes, people are greedy and the brands want profit!

To solve this equation things must be produced in China (not even Taiwan or Korea anymore). Oh yes, in modern production facilites, but still suffering from rigid specifications, testing, working quality and environmental management.

This is a shame and a huge and growing problem because you will not be able to use your favourite stuff more than two or three years...

[pclover]

I like my Corsair 750w

[Dms12444]

I like my Silver Stone 1200w. And yes it is overkill.

[TehMG]

I have an old AT power supply I use to power my routers, switches, phone, chargers and some 12V audio equipment (I don't like having 10 billion wall warts). It has been powered on 24/7 since some time in 2002, and prior to that it was used in a computer that served as an HVAC control/monitoring console, also powered 24/7 since some time in the early 90s.

24/7 usage for over 15 years now... they used to build these things to last.

[itscool1968]

i only use pc power and cooling power supplys in my systems

[Maxxarcade]

Those are great too, but some models did use cheap caps.

[itscool1968]

all of mine use american caps i buy the silencer series i find those work best:)

never had one go bad yet or doa.

[tobyeo]

what does it taste like?

[Maxxarcade]

Metallic, with a tinge of dust and plastic.

[MN12BIRD]

I wanted to get a Corsair 650W but at the time I got a really good deal on an OCZ Mod X Stream 600W that I couldn't pass up. Its APFC, 80+ and modular and its really quite with the 140mm fan. Its surprising how some of the even "high end" power supplies have crappy caps in them. Nice design ruined by cheap parts!

[Maxxarcade]

Yep, cheap caps seem to be like the plague for everything, even more expensive stuff. I try to stick with Nichicon, United Chemi-Con, Panasonic, Cornell-Dubiler/Mallory and other respected brands from Japan or USA.

[ttuee2006]

That's all nice and good.....but do you SERIOUSLY need 700W???? I mean mine's got a 450W with a BEAST graphics card, 3 HDDs, 2 ODDs, a Core2Duo CPU with the PISS overclocked out of it, 4 GB (4 sticks) 1200 MHz DDR2 RAM, and even at full load it only pulls about 300W..... did I mention it's never crashed a single time? BTW.....mine IS silent....

[Maxxarcade]

It is mainly for the powerful +12v rail, since it has to run a minimum of 8 hard drives and a DVD drive, plus 2 CPU's and RAID card, etc.

It also has to last several years at 24/7 use, without ever losing it's ability to produce clean power.

So basically it's about reliability, not raw power. Server stuff is always rated at least 200% over average load.

[ttuee2006]

I can understand it in the server. I was more curious about having it in the desktop. ;-)

[Maxxarcade]

Hence why I changed it out. It is a monster :-)

[selfalready]

hoi!!....now I want to. I bought a thermaltake 450, mostly because it seemed well built and had the 140 fan. So how do I go about overclocking the ram and checking for stability and temperature?

[mboltonjr]

I know what you mean well made power supplies using cheap capacitors.

I just replaced a pair of capacitors in a 700 watt Powworks power supply recently after one of them blew.

Now it has heavier duty capacitors and is a lot more stable.

[spatsbear2]

What a beast!

[Maxxarcade]

It weighs a lot too, and puts out 36 amps continuous on the 12 volt rail. It's a monster.

[ddl312]

Those 700 watters can be noisy! Nice power supply, well built.

[damusician]

Why most of anything today can't be built that great? Nice components btw!

[MSNIMSM]

Becuase people only want it cheap. They are greedy.

[retrochad]

That's really a beast of a supply...I am still using some 1996-era computers in my audio playback system and some of them are on their second or third power supply...Maybe I should look in to retrofitting with a better one like this.

[genmac1]

you have a server?

[Maxxarcade]

See my recent video called "moving my server rack".