Is the Rosewill Stallion Series RD600 600W Power Supply a reliable PSU?

[Chamo66]

Is the Rosewill Stallion Series RD600 600W ATX12V V2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Power Supply a reliable PSU. On Newegg I am getting mixed reviews from amazing and great. To unreliable and DOA. Can any one confirm if it is good or not? Since I already ordered it to improve my current machine.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

I would avoid it. Rosewill has some very good units on the higher end that are 80 Plus Gold and Platinum certified. But the lower end stuff is pretty bad and the Stallion series is lower end. The Stallion series is made by Solytech and they are not really an OEM you want.

You could have done much better for close to the same or the same money.

 

[RealBeast]

Is the Rosewill Stallion Series RD600 600W ATX12V V2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Power Supply a reliable PSU. On Newegg I am getting mixed reviews from amazing and great. To unreliable and DOA. Can any one confirm if it is good or not? Since I already ordered it to improve my current machine.

It only has a one year warranty, while most run 3 years or more -- that should be enough to avoid it. As anort3 says, go with an 80 Gold or Platinum.

 

[Chamo66]

I would avoid it. Rosewill has some very good units on the higher end that are 80 Plus Gold and Platinum certified. But the lower end stuff is pretty bad and the Stallion series is lower end. The Stallion series is made by Solytech and they are not really an OEM you want.

You could have done much better for close to the same or the same money.

Thanks I will just RMA and refund it I guess. Thanks for the answer.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

You certainly don't have to go with a Gold or Platinum unit but those are the only Rosewill units worth having. Anything by Corsair ( except CX and RM ) Seasonic, PC Power and Cooling, XFX, Silverstone, Enermax, OCZ, Antec or the high efficiency Rosewill units are my standard recommendations. Corsair may soon fall off the list if they keep up the crap they have been coming up with lately though and that would be a shame.

 

[RealBeast]

Those are all great units, but for now I am avoiding some of my favorites: PC Power and Cooling and OCZ, since nobody has yet come forward to buy those assets out of the OCZ bankruptcy, much less guarantee coverage of warranties, which can be a complex issue in bankruptcy (having done a fair bit of BK law).

Toshiba is only taking the SSD business, and it isn't clear that they will back warranties on units sold until they take over the business. They probably will if they intend to use any OCZ SSD brand names, but they may just use the technology and brand it all Toshiba, so bye bye warranties. Same with whoever, if anyone, buys the PSU business.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

True. There are some rumors Toshiba just wanted the Indilinx controller to use with their NAND. I do believe they will honor SSD warranties but you are correct about their PSU division. I hope someone picks up PC Power and Cooling at least.

 

[RealBeast]

True. There are some rumors Toshiba just wanted the Indilinx controller to use with their NAND. I do believe they will honor SSD warranties but you are correct about their PSU division. I hope someone picks up PC Power and Cooling at least.

Me too, I still have 5 (out of warranty) PCP&C units and would love to see them free standing again.