Which PSU brand do you trust?

[Pandyred]

Which brand should I prefer? Always a difficult question...
So I desided to ask the community via this poll...

I used to prefer Zalman but lately I discovered some other good PSU brands also...
So lets get voting!

 

[rolli59]

At least you made the selection easy by skipping brands like Seasonic, Antec, Enermax and some others. Selecting with 2 possibilities Corsair and other was easy!

 

[tecmo34]

^+1.... Exactly what I selected

 

[sportsfanboy]

Enermax is usually overlooked, and is a good quality brand. Like said above, Seasonic and Antec should be on that list as well

 

[Randomacts]

Why is seasonic not there...

 

[ares1214]

Dude...why are we leaving out half the better or best brands? XFX, Enermax, Corsair, Seasonic, ya know, the one who makes half the PSU's for the companies i just mentioned, Silverstone, my personal favorite...?

 

[rolli59]

I guess their parent company (OCZ) is not advertising them enough since they are in competition with themselves.

 

[Pandyred]

Sorry for not having in the list some of your favorite brands... but I had put in my list the brands I knew and some of them I trust...

Brands like Enermax, Seasonic, Silverstone I didn't know (since this post) that they were so good! Also I thought Antec was not so trustable... with no quality... but this post surely made its goals... I learned some new good/trusted brands!

I feel like I'm stuck in the "Middle Age" of PSU. I probably should change my mind about the quality of some brands...

 

[Pandyred]

no pc power and cooling???

What do you mean by that?

I guess their parent company (OCZ) is not advertising them enough since they are in competition with themselves.

OCZ is parent company of which brand?

 

[buwish]

Gotta go Corsair. I've had a few and they've all made it through to the end beautifully.

 

[hairystuff]

For all the performance PC's, Servers (24/7), PC-DVRs (24/7) I've always used Antec, Coolmaster and OCZ. Never had any downtime. Cheap PSU's are not worth the headache. Other brands like Aztec and Delta are good for low powered PC's servers that will happily run 24/7 without a hiccup.

 

[rolli59]

What do you mean by that?



OCZ is parent company of which brand?

http://www.pcpower.com/about/whatsnew/

 

[shovenose]

antec had huge problems with capacitor failures in the smart power and true power power supplies a while back. antecs newer offerings are high quality, the only thing to watch out for is that the antec basiq power models under 500w are generic crap not even worthy if the antec name, so avoid those!

 

[ares1214]

antec had huge problems with capacitor failures in the smart power and true power power supplies a while back. antecs newer offerings are high quality, the only thing to watch out for is that the antec basiq power models under 500w are generic crap not even worthy if the antec name, so avoid those!

Not an addict yet And i find Antec has slipped into overpricing their better products a bit. Anything over a 1000w and your pretty much on a good path to getting a high quality expensive PSU. Yet they charge an extra $100 for nothing special really. Now, of course, they arent the only ones, but ive noticed it more from them lately.

 

[etk]

Seasonic, Corair, Enermax, Antec...In that order

 

[jsc]

Agree with rolli - Corsair and "other".

 

[saint19]

1- Cosair
2- Antec
3- Seasonic
4- PC Power and Cooling
5- XFX (some are good)
6- OCZ
7- Coolermaster
8- Thermaltake
9- The others

 

[Emperus]

1- Cosair
2- Antec
3- Seasonic
4- PC Power and Cooling
5- XFX (some are good)
6- OCZ
7- Coolermaster
8- Thermaltake
9- The others

XFX has just 3 PSU's.. Which one do you feel is bad.?

 

[Emperus]

At least you made the selection easy by skipping brands like Seasonic, Antec, Enermax and some others. Selecting with 2 possibilities Corsair and other was easy!

Best answer..

 

[Shadow703793]

You forgot XFX. XFX is a new player, but it made a darn good splash in the PSU arena with their 650W+ units. Check out the reviews at JonnyGuru to see what I mean.

1- Cosair
2- Antec
3- Seasonic
4- PC Power and Cooling
5- XFX (some are good)
6- OCZ

M8, ALL of the XFX PSUs got at least a 9 @ JonnyGuru. IIRC, all of the XFX units got 10/10 for performance.

My recommendations based on price vs performance:
1. XFX
2. Corsair
3. PC Power & Cooling/SeaSonic
4. Antec
5. OCZ

I would not recommend any thing below a OCZ.

 

[jaguarskx]

Seasonic

They build their own PSUs.

They also manufacture PSUs for Antec, Corsair, PC Power & Cooling, and XFX amongst others.

 

[geeknation]

What gives?!? No one mentioned NZXT with their Hale 90 sereies? Is there somthing I don't know about them?

 

[ares1214]

Those Hales and The TT Grands are actually extremely good, just more expensive. If i had to buy a 850w PSU, id buy this instead:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256058&Tpk=silverstone%20850w

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/26990-9-way-850w-power-supply-roundup-23.html

If they right the only con that it comes in a big box so big shipping, ya know something is right

 

[Emperus]

IMO, this is the best 850W PSU for the money -

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817207001

 

[ares1214]

IMO, this is the best 850W PSU for the money -

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817207001

They both pretty much cost the same.