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In-Win Powerman

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PandaZ3

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I realize that Powerman is on the don't buy sticky, but I had a 300 W powerman in my In-Win Q500 case from 1999 or 2000. I only ran it about a year and a half when I upgraded to a NF7-S and a PCPower and Cooling 350. The Powreman ran fine till then and went in the spare bin till I cut some wires for a project i was hot on..

Anyway I bought two more In-Win cases in November and they both had 350W PSU's I had/have a new Seasonic 430 waiting in the closet. I thought I was going to replace the PSU, but as I was removing one and inspecting it I was impressed with what I saw so I put it back in. It was for a Socket A folding machine so I was not overly concerned... it is working fine.

A week later I built a ASUS A8N-VM CSM, a 939 board with onboard video, I used a 3500 winchester and 2x 512 PC3200. It has been flogged by the Warden nearly 24/7 since then with that 350 W Powerman

Powerman is In-Win's house brand. I think they are good and have recomended them to a few friends (I don't know if they got one) I think it might be a budget alternative for some. They are for sale at NewEgg and they have a 410 version too

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103062
 
Some older In-Win's are made by FSP... and that's good.

But the problem with the older models is that the voltage distribution isn't correct for a more modern PC With a high end graphics card. Even your most up to date machine has on board video, so I don't really think you're in a position to say how well that ol' Powerman is going to hold up. ;)

The new ones are not made even as close to as good as those old FSP made units. In fact, I'd RATHER have a Powerman 300W from three years ago then a "410W" on Newegg today.
 
Well The two 350's that I have running right now are the new style, they have 20/24 pin connectors, SATA connectors and even a 6 pin PCI Express connector. When I inspected it visually it seemed of good quality. I realize that Onboard video takes less power, If I had a put a Video card in that machine I would have put the SeaSonic 430 in it without blinking.

Truthfully that was my plan from the start, I just was using the installed PSU to test the system and had every intention of putting the SeaSonic in, but the Warden seen it was up and running and wanted it right now as she was having trouble with one of her Socket A's.

I told her it might not be strong enough, I have been waiting for a random re-boot problem, but that hasn't happened. I really don't believe in cheap PSU's, but I have had two Antec's fail recently and one PCPower & Cooling fail years ago.

On the cheap end of the spectrum these new Powermans seem OK to me.
 
I can pretty much assue you they won't end up on any of the recommended lists ;)
 
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