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Old Jul 23, 2009, 10:50 AM   #1
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Good Cheap PSU?

I know good and cheap don't go well together for a power supply, but I'll be building a budget rig for someone and my ASRock mobo, Pentium 4 630 and X1950 Pro will be going into it along with 2x1GB DDR2, a DVD drive and 2 60GB IDE HDDs. All that needs to be bought is a case and power supply, I was looking at the Corsair HX450W because Corsair are reliable and it's modular but it costs €70 and think 450W is a bit low, I thought it would be best getting a higher capacity PSU for more headroom for future upgrades.

The cheapest 500W is the this AXP for €30.99 but it's no name really, the next one up is the 500W OCZ StealthXStream for €57.24 and the 500W OCZ ModXStream

Any ideas, is 450W enough or would it be best getting one of the 500W PSUs?

As for the case I'm looking at the Antec 300 for €53.
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Old Jul 23, 2009, 10:59 AM   #2
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For that setup 400 is more than enough. I have a Silverstone Strider 400W, very silent and seems reliable.
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Old Jul 23, 2009, 11:07 AM   #3
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A 400W PSU is all you need , but don't buy generic ones , stick to Corsair , Coolermaster , OCZ and so on . The 450w Corsair is a good choice . +12V@33A , 80 PLUS Certified . On those specs , your peak will be at around 275W , and with overclocking you are looking at around 300 - 310W . So the 450W Corsair will get the job done .

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Old Jul 23, 2009, 11:21 AM   #4
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One of my rigs uses an AsRock board, X1950 Pro but uses a Core-based Celeron with a 35W TDP instead of the 84W TDP Pentium 4 630. That rig pulls about 100W from the wall (with the CPU oc'd from 2 to 3 GHz), and is powered by a crusty old Chieftec 410W PSU and been fine for 2.5 years. You'll probably look at about 150W yourself without any overclocks. So go for a decent 400W, it's enough.
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Old Jul 23, 2009, 11:30 AM   #5
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I had 685W Hantol PSU for 3 months and was running cool and stable. If you could find one would cost 25-30 eur.
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Old Jul 23, 2009, 11:59 AM   #6
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I had 685W Hantol PSU for 3 months and was running cool and stable. If you could find one would cost 25-30 eur.
my dads pc has that one pulling a x2 5000be + 3850 + 3 hd now looks like its fine for ~1.5 years and its cheap
 
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Old Jul 23, 2009, 12:44 PM   #7
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Thanks for that info guys, the HX450W is nice, I want to use that one but I need to get the cost down.

OCZ StealthXStream - 400W - €45
Corsair - CX400W - 400W - €46
OCZ Fatal1ty - 400W - €49
OCZ ModXStream Pro - 400W - €49

The computer is a Dell going from 2.66GHz Pentium 4, 1256MB DDR, a PCI video card and a 60GB IDE drive to a custom built rig with a 3.0GHz Pentium 4 630, 2048MB DDR2, X1950 Pro and 2 60GB IDE drives. I wonder how far I can overclock that P4 630, shame about the CPU a dual core would have been nice.

What's the power consumption of the Pentium 4 630 anyone know? Would a dual core use less?
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yeah a decent 400 watter is plenty, i would be suprised if your rig hit 200 watts gaming, as ive said many times my rig Oced and with a 30 watt water pump hits the 250 mark gaming


my pick out of the psu's you have listed would be the OCZ modXStream pro, there not the best psu, but its modular and so alot neater in the case, some ppl have said they have ripple issue but i dont think it would matter for what you are doing
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i reconmend the corsair CX400w its a power house for such a psu,run some GTS250 or 4850 if you like on the 400w
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The P4 630 is a 84W TDP CPU . If you overclock it to 3400 (stock voltages) , your overclocked CPU wattage will be 95W . Any bump in voltages will result in a 115W power consumption . But i didn't check to see how high can that CPU go , but i figure you can get 3400 without raising the voltage .
It's capable of 300MHz+ FSB using the 15x multiplier so basically it will overclock like a P4 660 , close to 4.5GHz ( with GOOD cooling ) . But you need better memory to achive that frequency .
4000+ will be stable at 1.6V , but your CPU will suck up to 165W .
You can get 3900MHz at 1.5V and we are looking at 125W power consumption .
Your mainboard is the key here ... can`t know how it will perform , but in the best case scenario the 450W corsair will get the job done .
Edit : the X1950 PRO is not power hungry .. i think it sucks 70W in full load , so you can overclock it until it burns .. the corsair will still work like a charm

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A 450W named psu (eg corsair) will actually output than those generic 500W PSU's.

For that system, even something like an Antec Basiq 380W will do it. I don't know about prices, but any "named" PSU @ 350W+ will do.
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My Stealthxsteam has been very good. Would definitely recommend.
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Old Jul 23, 2009, 01:38 PM   #13
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dont buy AXP its a pure crap brand, not delivering any function it should... it could neither power a dualcore+hd4850...

buy the modxstream... its really nice. believe me^^
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go for the 400w corsair, is the best of all 4
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why not go with Rosewill. i have never had any issues. even go for FSB

FSB 450W

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his from europe asrockIQ,notice the euro symbol?? best 400w psu in europe i have to say is corsair 400w
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