Good bang for the buck? help please

Benny Boy said:
That's one of the things about prebuilt. The power supply, one of or THE most important part, is one of their favorite places to make their money.
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Haha, so true manufactured PCs will always disappoint. If you want a PC that can deliver, you have to build it yourself.
 
What Benny Boy is saying is it would be a good idea to replace the poor quality power supply you got with that system. That power supply can cause performance issues or it could burn out and destroy parts.
 
Aw come on guys, a regulated, stable power supply is child's play for any EE to design and make cost effective for the OEM he is employed by. Dis the CPU or video card, I wouldn't know if you were blowing smoke up my hindside, but dissing my PS, show me the specs, THD%, voltage droop under rated load, heat disipation in watts, etc. I came to this forum for help because I am no computer geek, but 35 years ago had designed many a PS for both solid state and B+ voltage to the plate of large RF output tubes. I'm not saying this to get flamed, but it sounds like some here are victims of slick Madison Avenue marketing hype. Am I wrong?
 
deckofficer said:
BTW, I pulled the trigger on a new computer purchase. Tell me if I did good, as you seem to know about them. I had to spec it because I couldn't find what I wanted in a finished unit. Remember this is for video editing, I'm not a gamer and never will be.

Intel i5-2500K 3.30 GHz 6M liquid cooling
8GB DDR3 1333 MHz dual channel memory
700 watt PS
Nvidia GeForce GT 520 w/ 1GB
Biostar H61MH Intel HDMI Motherboard
HDD 1TB SATA II 3.0Gb/second
Wireless IEEE 802
12 in 1 flash media reader/writer
24X double layer dual format DVD R/RW
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The Procesor is fine.

Have no Idea of what brand and model memory it is. 8gb. is fine if you need that much.

Power supply below.

The Video card is pretty much entry level/lowend

Biostar is pretty much a lowend motherboard. Better would have been Gigabyte/Asus/MSI/ even Asrock.

Have no idea what brand and model harddrive it is.



deckofficer said:
Aw come on guys, a regulated, stable power supply is child's play for any EE to design and make cost effective for the OEM he is employed by. Dis the CPU or video card, I wouldn't know if you were blowing smoke up my hindside, but dissing my PS, show me the specs, THD%, voltage droop under rated load, heat disipation in watts, etc. I came to this forum for help because I am no computer geek, but 35 years ago had designed many a PS for both solid state and B+ voltage to the plate of large RF output tubes. I'm not saying this to get flamed, but it sounds like some here are victims of slick Madison Avenue marketing hype. Am I wrong?
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The Power supply is pretty much junk. My god you can buy the damn thing for like 35 bucks, that should tell you something. It only has 480W on the 12V rail. And that is at it max pull which would only last a few seconds till it trips or blows. If it last, if you ever do any upgrades especially a better video card that would be the first thing to upgrade, if not (now). Stick with Seasonic/PC Power & Cooling/Silverstone/XFX/Corsair/Antec
 
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