Has anyone heard of this power supply? BFG GS-500 500W (You can google it) Its made by a company called BFG and looks like its good value for money. Basically, I am trying to power my system Phenom II 720 with an Ati 4670 or maybe a Ati 3870 as cheaply as possible without any problems. I am looking on play.com and am from the uk.
Power Supplies
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pcmarketusa
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If you are running a multi core processor, I would highly recommend getting the Heavy-Load power supply. I've seen too many problems when clients purchase the Basic-Load units.
aviation_man
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I have a BFG 750W and it runs fine. I would consider getting a higher wattage than 500 just to leave yourself some room if you ever want to consider upgrading or if you want to run more than 2 HDD's. Those multi-core CPU's can take up some wattage to. So you have to look out for that kind of stuff.
bomberboysk
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BFG Power supplies are fine, it should handle a system with a 3870.
Springy182
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Disregard this person, he's spamming for his store, a 500W PSU should power a tri core and decent single GPU so long as you're not trying to power 10 HDDs at the same time
Yeah for graphics cards BFG is par with EVGA and XFX, but neither EVGA or XFX makes PSUs to my knowledge
BFG makes ok power supplies though
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bomberboysk
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Actually, XFX and EVGA are much better than bfg for graphics cards, for the warranty at least. With BFG, you change thermal paste, heatsink, or overclock the card the warranty is void. With evga or xfx, you can overclock, reapply thermal paste, or add an aftermarket heatsink, and as long as the card isnt physically damaged, and returned to them in original condition(with stock heatsink put back on), your warranty is valid.
Springy182
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Point there, additionally EVGA has a lifetime warranty, XFX has a "double lifetime warranty" (If you sell your card to someone they also get lifetime warranty)
Aastii
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processors now pull very little power in comparison to other components, especially with 45nm processors (65 don't pull too much, but enough more to potentially make a difference to the PSU you need). The graphics card is the main user of power and that power supply and so long as the unit has decent amps on the 12V rail(s) then it is fine and stable.
according to BFG themselves the supply has 33A combined on the 2 12V rails (15 on one, 18 on the other) which is fine for near enough any system up to a 3870, maybe a 48 card at a push, so it is a decent PSU, yes. Also because of the 85% efficiency it will stay cooler because it will be creating more power and less heat.
Not true. The Processor is the number 1 or 2 on sucking power depending on the video card.
You dont just add the rails together to get the total amps on the 12V rail. If it has one 18 and 15 amp rail, that just the most amps. that one rail can pull without tripping the supply. Take the total watts on the 12V rail and divide it by 12 gets you close to the total amps on the 12V rail.