PSU Good/Bad List

PC eye

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The common reason why you won't find much information on some odd brand name like Kimpro is that they are often found to be low quality supplies pushed out by larger companies to fill orders by a new startup company. Or they msy from a new manufacturer or one selling under a new brand name.

Sometimes a cheapie supply will actually last longer since no heavy loads are placed on them. And then on other occasions you may see one quit fast like within two weeks time from just basic use. The quality of materilals used as well as design are the things professional reviewers look at.
 

PC eye

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Where is Rosewell on the bad list, so many defective PSU's

Rosewill http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010320058+50002177&name=Rosewill is the way that one is spelled doesn't make the popular gaming list by a long shot. Those are low enders for the most part.

Never had a good time with enermax in my experience. Coolermaster has done well for me though.

You can ask ceewi1 about the Liberty line by Enermax while that was one favored for gaming builds just a few years ago. But as always supplies with various brand names will see a new company making them like Channelwell was making Antec supplies until the latest TP3 line was introduced.
 

PC eye

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The main problem with that brand is qualiry wise along with amps on the rails and regulation. For a stock system you may not see any problems while ocers would end up wanting something else.

Here since running two optical drives along with plans to add one or two more HDs bringing that upto 4 or 5 drives there I went with a heavier supply namely the OCZ GameXStream 700w model. I know that will also handle anything else I throw on like adding a 3rd pci device like a captuure card or usb devices.
 

Ramodkk

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So I shouldn't have any problems if I only have 1 HD, 1 optical drive right? Oh, and Im also not OC'ing. So pretty much a stock system as you mentioned.
 

PC eye

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You can run it easily enough since 500w is generally more then enough for the basic desktop. The thing you would notice however quality wise would be if you were cranking things up like seen with ocing or pounding hardwares with large memory hungry resource grabbing programs where the demand for power starts pulling the supply down. The better supplies provide more amps on each 12v rail making life easier there.
 

ceewi1

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Hmm, where's HEC?
In the mostly-good-with-some-units-that-I-have-reservations-about list :D

Where is Rosewell on the bad list, so many defective PSU's
:confused: What? Their great! Maybe one or 2 bad items, but the rest of the items are great :cool:
Rosewill http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010320058+50002177&name=Rosewill is the way that one is spelled doesn't make the popular gaming list by a long shot. Those are low enders for the most part.
A tough call. Many (honestly, most) of their units are terrible, but there are a few units that perform well, and are very good value - primarily the ATNG built units. Take a look at the rebranding guide as well. Most of Rosewill's OEMs are listed in this good/bad list.

You can ask ceewi1 about the Liberty line by Enermax while that was one favored for gaming builds just a few years ago. But as always supplies with various brand names will see a new company making them like Channelwell was making Antec supplies until the latest TP3 line was introduced.
Never had a good time with enermax in my experience.
Some of the later Liberty's had problems, failing after moderate use. That aside, they're generally good units although expensive for the power they output. Every company is going to have some bad units, though.

Coolermaster has done well for me though.
Another one for the mostly-good-with-some-units-that-I-have-reservations-about list - the higher wattage eXtreme Powers are horrendously overrated (the 600 & 650W are based on a 500W Seventeam platform). Those aside, they're good units.

So, how about a Rosewill 500W? because that's what I have for my ordered HD3870...
Which one? The RP500 is good value, I'm not keen on the RD, or RE though.
 

newguy5

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i see on the rebranding this:

"All Other TR2s - Channelwell E161451/E193705
Toughpower series - Channelwell UL Not stated"

so i guess the toughpower is about the same as the one in the link i posted...
 

PC eye

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If by Channelwell compare Tough Power on one brand name to True Power seen on Antec models being made by the same company. Seasonic and Enhance are now making the newer and larger TP3 models for Antec like the TP3 850w model.

When initially encouraging ceewi1 to actually make the sticky on supplies to replace the need to post a good/bad list on a number of threads I had to say that he did an excellent job being quite thorough there. I could have gone with an 850w model but that owuld be certainly been overkill since the 700w OCZ supply still leaves room.
 

2048Megabytes

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My power supply did not make the good or bad list. The brand is OKIA. The model number is OKIA-450ATX. It is a 450 Watt power supply that has served me well so far for several months.
 

PC eye

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Sometimes you can get into a supply simply being sold under a different retail brand name while being made by a known company. That's why ceewi1 saw the rebadgered section added in when making the sticky on supplies up. Channelwell for instance makes supplies for more then Antec while Antec will use more then Channelwell as the supplier.

If you are not pushing things and running a stock setup you are not placing any big load on the supply in use there where you may just end up seeing problems for not being adequate. For ocing and running multiple HDs and other devices you could see that one suddenly not able to handle things well. It all depends on how it was made. Some low priced supplies surprisingly last since they see no abuse.
 

tidyboy21

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I am partial to Thermaltakes for some reason. I cannot really explain myself.

lol, same here. I have always used Thermaltake power supplies and have never had any problems with any of them. Got two that have been running fine for well over 3/4 years, and the W0132 I am using at the moment is rock solid.
 

PC eye

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I have an Antec 350w supply that's about 6yrs. old now that can still fire up an old case. That doesn't mean you could simply it on various builds at the time it was new regardless of how long it lasts.

For a basic system with minimum requirements for checking the mail, web browsing you wouldn't need much. But for anything made for high ending then you have to look at what any one make and model will support.

I complimented ceewi1 for great work he did on the sticky there. He took the time to look into things and reseach facts about different makes and models.
 
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