[SOLVED] Is this a good PSU?

[Winggie]

Its called the Seasonic Core Gold GM 500W. Im gonna use it in this build.

 

[maxamillionfeettall]

There are no professional reviews as of yet, but one model was opened up to inspect the components. It's made of good caps and uses a modern llc and dc-dc design. It is highly likely that it's a good unit, well suited for the rig you have set up. The fan though is weak, but is covered in the warranty were it to fail.

 

[Ralston18]

PSU - more wattage perhaps.

Start with the following link:
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-psus,4229.html

 

[Karadjgne]

The Seasonic Core series is the revamped Focus series, some use the Focus platform, some use the Focus+ platform. The Core GM I believe is a Focus revamp. So I'd venture to say it's at a very minimum, quite decent. How decent is yet to be determined as not all revamps are actually better than their predecessors. (Evga G2 vs G3, Seasonic S12-II vs S12-III etc). If it's anything like the Corsair revamps, it'll be seriously better than prior and the original Focus series wasn't half bad.

 

[Winggie]

PSU - more wattage perhaps.

Start with the following link:
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-psus,4229.html

There are no professional reviews as of yet, but one model was opened up to inspect the components. It's made of good caps and uses a modern llc and dc-dc design. It is highly likely that it's a good unit, well suited for the rig you have set up. The fan though is weak, but is covered in the warranty were it to fail.

Do you have any other PSU’s that you coulc recommend me? The Seasonic one is only €72 and semi-modular so I thought that it would be a good deal.

 

[Juular]

The Seasonic Core series is the revamped Focus series, some use the Focus platform, some use the Focus+ platform.

It's not a revamp, it's costdown.

Do you have any other PSU’s that you coulc recommend me?

You can start with telling us where you are from or link some local online stores. Also, there are PSU tier list pinned at the top which you can look at and see for yourself.

 

[Winggie]

It's not a revamp, it's costdown.

You can start with telling us where you are from or link some local online stores. Also, there are PSU tier list pinned at the top which you can look at and see for yourself.

Im from The Netherlands, and my budget for the PSU is €60-€70. Here are a few stores:
https://www.megekko.nl/home/
https://azerty.nl/
https://www.cdromland.nl/home/

 

[Juular]

Im from The Netherlands, and my budget for the PSU is €60-€70.

Well, i don't see anything better there for this price. There are Corsair CX but arguably it would probably be no better if not worse, and Antec Neo Eco Zen we don't have reviews on either. Go for Seasonic Core GM then.

 

[Zerk2012]

Its called the Seasonic Core Gold GM 500W. Im gonna use it in this build.

Nothing wrong with that power supply. 7 year warranty, DC to DC, all jap caps.

 

[Winggie]

Well, i don't see anything better there for this price. There are Corsair CX but arguably it would probably be no better if not worse, and Antec Neo Eco Zen we don't have reviews on either. Go for Seasonic Core GM then.

Ah okay, thanks! Im gonna buy it tonight.

 

[Dean0919]

You can never go wrong with Seasonic when it comes to PSUs.

 

[maxamillionfeettall]

The 500w core series have nichicon caps rather then the higher quality nippon chemi-con caps, but they are still japanese and rated at 105C(budget units sometimes use lower quality 85C rated caps). It's also still a llc resonant primary and dc-dc secondary on both 3.3 and 5v, so I really doubt it's poor quality. TBH, if it was available for a decent price in the US, I'd pick it up as well. XD

You can never go wrong with Seasonic when it comes to PSUs.

You in fact can go wrong, the seasonic s/m12III are made by rsy and not made by seasonic, they're also missing some protections. The original s/m12II is still popular despite being a group regulated unit that shouldn't be used by modern pc's anymore, and many of their grey box units with no specific name use group regulation as well.
So seasonic, as with any other manufacturer, has good and bad units.