Psu Advice
 

Looking to buy , Cant decide.

What psu are you guys running and which do you recommend
and of course i am overclocking , and if you could list where to get it from the cheapest. Dont know budget yet so just spill your beans.

Sparkle 400W. Highly recommended, but stock it has a noisy fan. I can't recall where I bought it; was online. FSP is Sparkle's parent company.

What do you think about the vantec psu's all the reviews ive read said some good things , but they are a little noisey , i espeically liked that review at overclockers.com that has it powering two systems at once and was only the 420watt model

Well right now , i think sparkle , or vantec are my two choices in mind.

I can only vouch for my personal experiences.

Had an Antec 250W durring my Celeron 433 days; that thing NEVER gave me any problems what so ever. Still is a great PSU even though it is not used other than testing.

Purchased a Sparkle 350W PSU when I built my 4 SCSI RAID setup. It lasted about 3 months then gave me problems. Mostly, it would not power back on if I shut down the machine. At first, it only happened every once in a while, then to 50% of the time. Tried to RMA it, company sent it back to me saying more-or-less " your full of sh*t." Gave it to a firend and he had the same problems. Now I keep it stored ONLY for the rare testing occasion.

Currently running an Enermax 651 and it handles my system pretty dang well. Had one go out on my however and was able to RMA it within a few days. This one has lasted about 8 months.

i had an enermax , i am not going to purchase an enermax agian.

Antec True Power 550w or Vantec Stealth 520w

I had a Sparkle 350. I liked it alot, still works. Its running a friends 1.4athlon, six hard drives and two cdroms drives. No problems.

Forton source has some good psu's I believe.

I just bought this one http://www.directron.com/tt500ss.html I hate the company that sells it. They screwed me once but I buy from them when there is a good deal or they have something someone else doesn't. That PSU is currently running a p4 2.26@2.9 with a ATI 9700, three hard drives and two cdrom drives. My 12v stays at 11.94, which is good because thats what the p4's draw power from.

i cant afford the 520watters i leaning toward the vantec 420watt looks nice and reviews ive read seems really good , some said it was loud i can fix that

now im considering the thermaltake ones they are not expensive and the review i saw them stacked agianst the vantec it was quieter and put out more on the 5 and 3.3 at full load but its rise on the 12 at load was kinda big :(

PC Power & Cooling do pretty much state-of-the-art PSU's. Being single fan, they do not make much noise but huge heatsinks and good construction make them solid performers that hardly warm up.

Seasonic make the quietest 400W power supply on this planet. Don't let its unassuming looks fool you; it is an awesomely quiet and stable PSU.