[SOLVED] PSU brand

[klmzhc]

Hello everyone, I’m new in the community.
I own a MSI Nightblade MI3 and I wanted to upgrade the poor 350W psu; it is a flex ATX psu. Surfing on the internet I’ve found a brand, XinHang, which manufactures a 550W flex ATX PSU. Does anyone know this brand? I’ve found an old thread on tomshardware where someone says that XinHang produces PSUs for some more known companies. Is it reliable? The other option is to buy a 600W PSU from Enhance which costs about 100€ more (190€ total). I simply don’t know what to do and that’s why I’m asking a suggestion from you guys. Thank you in advance.

P.S. My PC is equipped with a i5-8400 and a GTX 1050 Ti. My plan is to replace the GPU with a 1660 SUPER or Ti or even with a RTX 2060.

 

[richiestang_78]

Honestly what I would do is buy a decent ITX compatible case (they range in sizes from small itx only to mATX to full sized towers) and that way you can use a much more common and gernally more powerful SFX sized PSU which comes in far more reliable brands and models.

youll also get far better thermals on both your CPU and GPU.

 

[DSzymborski]

I'm not familiar with any reputable power supply made by Xinhang in existence. Even Enhance is typically only "good" at best, not one of the top manufacturers (SeaSonic, Super Flower, CWT, Flextronics, Delta in OEMs).

Where are you located? There should be more 1u PSU options than that. Flex-ATX uses the same holes as uATX (just fewer of them), so it might make more sense, if these are actually your prices, to simply move everything to a proper uATX case and get a normal power supply.

 

[bignastyid]

It's not clear to me if the case is standard atx - but if it is I recommend the KDM 1000W PSU:

New 1000W 1000 Watt 1050W 1075W Quiet Fan SATA 12V PCI-E ATX Power Supply PSU | eBay

FREE Upgrade to 1075W if we receive your order. FREE Upgrade to 1075W. 1000W (Free upgrade to 1075W if order received by 3:00pm CST). ATX Connector. Max Output Power 1000 Watt. SOLD OVER 500+. 0° C ~ +50° C on Output Load ;.

www.ebay.com

Bang for your buck while still giving you the power needed.

It's not standard ATX, the op clearly states it's a flex atx. The OP does not need a 1000w PSU, especially not a 1000w pile of junk.

 

[Archaic59]

It's not clear to me if the case is standard atx - but if it is I recommend the KDM 1000W PSU:

New 1000W 1000 Watt 1050W 1075W Quiet Fan SATA 12V PCI-E ATX Power Supply PSU | eBay

FREE Upgrade to 1075W if we receive your order. FREE Upgrade to 1075W. 1000W (Free upgrade to 1075W if order received by 3:00pm CST). ATX Connector. Max Output Power 1000 Watt. SOLD OVER 500+. 0° C ~ +50° C on Output Load ;.

www.ebay.com

Bang for your buck while still giving you the power needed.

1000 watts? LOL it only puts out 36 amps on the two +12 volt rails which total 432 watts. What a joke.

 

[Rogue Leader]

It's not clear to me if the case is standard atx - but if it is I recommend the KDM 1000W PSU:

New 1000W 1000 Watt 1050W 1075W Quiet Fan SATA 12V PCI-E ATX Power Supply PSU | eBay

FREE Upgrade to 1075W if we receive your order. FREE Upgrade to 1075W. 1000W (Free upgrade to 1075W if order received by 3:00pm CST). ATX Connector. Max Output Power 1000 Watt. SOLD OVER 500+. 0° C ~ +50° C on Output Load ;.

www.ebay.com

Bang for your buck while still giving you the power needed.

That ad should say 1000W plus a bonus house fire!

 

[klmzhc]

Honestly what I would do is buy a decent ITX compatible case (they range in sizes from small itx only to mATX to full sized towers) and that way you can use a much more common and gernally more powerful SFX sized PSU which comes in far more reliable brands and models.

youll also get far better thermals on both your CPU and GPU.

Hi, thanks for your reply. I also evaluated this option, but I looked inside the case and it seems that the PCI-E bus for the GPU is somehow on a different board than the motherboard. I try to explain myself better: when I open the case the motherboard is located on the right side of the build, while the GPU is somehow connected to a board on the top of the build that seems to be a different one than the motherboard. So I don’t know if I am able to switch this build into another case, plus I’ve found nothing on the web 🙁.

I'm not familiar with any reputable power supply made by Xinhang in existence. Even Enhance is typically only "good" at best, not one of the top manufacturers (SeaSonic, Super Flower, CWT, Flextronics, Delta in OEMs).

Where are you located? There should be more 1u PSU options than that. Flex-ATX uses the same holes as uATX (just fewer of them), so it might make more sense, if these are actually your prices, to simply move everything to a proper uATX case and get a normal power supply.

Thanks for your reply too. I’m located in Italy and I wasn’t able to find anything better than the Enhance 600W PSU which puts up to 50A on the 12V rail for the GPU. If, as you said, there are other better options to this PSU, I beg you to show which they are because I didn’t find anything.

It's not standard ATX, the op clearly states it's a flex atx. The OP does not need a 1000w PSU, especially not a 1000w pile of junk.

Which thread does this post belong to? It’s not this one right?

 

[richiestang_78]

From everything I've gathered about your computer it's a standard itx mobo. Can you look and see if you can see a model name on the move someplace?

 

[Rogue Leader]

Hi, thanks for your reply. I also evaluated this option, but I looked inside the case and it seems that the PCI-E bus for the GPU is somehow on a different board than the motherboard. I try to explain myself better: when I open the case the motherboard is located on the right side of the build, while the GPU is somehow connected to a board on the top of the build that seems to be a different one than the motherboard. So I don’t know if I am able to switch this build into another case, plus I’ve found nothing on the web 🙁.

I've seen this before your GPU is likely on a riser board. Its just basically a board (or cable) that plugs into the PCIe slot on your motherboard and allows you to mount the GPU sideways. If you remove this board and pull the motherboard out, your GPU will likely just be able to connect directly to the motherboard where the riser had plugged into.

Which thread does this post belong to? It’s not this one right?

He was just pointing out that the suggestion of that garbage KDM PSU was a poor one because one its made of junk, and two it won't fit your case. It looks like the post suggesting it was deleted , because its poor dangerous advice.

 

[klmzhc]

From everything I've gathered about your computer it's a standard itx mobo. Can you look and see if you can see a model name on the move someplace?

I’m sorry for the delay in the answer but I couldn’t do it before than now. So I checked and from my measurements it seems to me that this mobo (MS-B9181) is not a mini-ITX. It seems that the lengths are assimilable to a mini-DTX (203x170cm) mobo but I’m not even sure because I wasn’t able to pull out the motherboard as I can’t figure out how to disassembly the CPU cooling system (which is ad-hoc for this build). So I think I will get the Enhance FlexATX 600W because the price of a mini-DTX case plus the price of a new SFX PSU and the one of a new cooler for the CPU is higher than the price of that Flex PSU. You have also to consider that, although I’m a tech lover, I’ve not high practical skills as this is the first desktop PC that I have ever owned (just laptops in the past) and during the switch from a case to another the probability that I’ll screw it up is high lol. This is the only option I suppose.
Anyway I’m leaving a picture of the build so you can have an idea of how it is made.

https://imgur.com/a/dcG1C4I

View: https://imgur.com/gallery/dcG1C4I

I've seen this before your GPU is likely on a riser board. Its just basically a board (or cable) that plugs into the PCIe slot on your motherboard and allows you to mount the GPU sideways. If you remove this board and pull the motherboard out, your GPU will likely just be able to connect directly to the motherboard where the riser had plugged into.

Yeah, I see. As I wrote up, I can’t manage to pull out the cooling as it seems to be united to the GPU riser. Anyway it seems that the mobo is not a common mini-ITX so it discouraged me in buying a new case 🙁.

 

[DSzymborski]

DTX/mini-DTX ought to fit in pretty much any micro ATX case. It's meant as an ATX variant.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Wow, that tight case looks like a nightmare, but as DSzymborski said, you should be able to fit it in a proper normal case if you wanted to.

 

[DSzymborski]

Wow, that tight case looks like a nightmare, but as DSzymborski said, you should be able to fit it in a proper normal case if you wanted to.

I think I'd want to get it out of that case even if I'm not upgrading! That looks like an utter nightmare to work with.

Also get a good budget fan. The one there looks like an ultra-proprietary nightmare chunk.

 

[klmzhc]

Wow, that tight case looks like a nightmare, but as DSzymborski said, you should be able to fit it in a proper normal case if you wanted to.

I think I'd want to get it out of that case even if I'm not upgrading! That looks like an utter nightmare to work with.

Also get a good budget fan. The one there looks like an ultra-proprietary nightmare chunk.

It seems like a nightmare but I have to say temps are not that bad. Anyway I think I’ll buy a Seasonic Focus GX650 and a Coolermaster Q300L and I hope that the mobo will fit. Thanks for your support guys, I appreciate that.