XFX PRO750W or Corsair CX750 Builder Series PSU

[Backtothere]

What are the differences between these and which would you reccomend

 

[Someone Somewhere]

XFX by far. It's built by SeaSonic, who are basically the best around at the moment.

Corsair cheaped out on the caps in the CX series, so they'll die early.

 

[md1032]

I would definitely go with the Seasonic (XFX) over the Corsair. Corsair isn't what it used to be. If you want some excellent reviews of power supplies, which seem to be hard to come by, I would check out check out HardOCP's reviews. Their testing is insane.

http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/psu_power_supplies/

 

[Someone Somewhere]

JonnyGuru and a pile of other sites do similar stuff. The second link in my sig is a compiled list of PSUs rated by quality, though it's not always up to date.

 

[rymu2000]

We specifically try to avoid the corsair CX series, because the caps are bad. XFX is one of the best vendors because they are made by SeaSonic

 

[Backtothere]

XFX by far. It's built by SeaSonic, who are basically the best around at the moment.

Corsair cheaped out on the caps in the CX series, so they'll die early.

I had one 650W XFX psu that came with a very very loud fan and a second one which came with a less but still broken fan, The 750w is on sale for the same price as the 650w now, Would the 750 be less likely to have a broken fan?

 

[Someone Somewhere]

That's quite uncommon, from what I've seen. No reason that the 750W would be less likely to have a broken fan (though the 650W shouldn't have had one either). It's possible that there was a bad batch or something, though.

 

[Backtothere]

So get a 750W XFX pro PSU or are there any others that I should be researching?

 

[dish_moose]

Although JonnyGuru was my favorite site, I recently discovered he is now working for Corsair. Very hard to be objective. There is still plenty of good info but now Jonny will respectfully decline speaking on some subjects.
-Bruce

 

[Someone Somewhere]

However, there are other reviewers there. And he did make the conflict fairly clear - I'll have to hunt it down, but he's not going to review Corsair stuff and I'm not sure about others.

 

[dish_moose]

^ True but it was a great site when Jonny told it like it was.
-Bruce

 

[toyftw]

Although JonnyGuru was my favorite site, I recently discovered he is now working for Corsair. Very hard to be objective. There is still plenty of good info but now Jonny will respectfully decline speaking on some subjects.
-Bruce

I agree with the concern about jg, but I see it as also a possibility that Corsair might actually be concerned with
the negativity that has developed on some of their series (CX, RM, for example) and may be trying to
rehabilitate their reputation in PSU's.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

There was quite a long forum post about it, and I think something in the reviews slot.

I have no problem with the other reviewers.

 

[dish_moose]

Don't get me wrong - still a great site with loads of great info. I just wish Jonny did not have one arm tied behind his back.
-Bruce