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my psu died need help...

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XeRo_Dark

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so yah middle of playin wow (yah im a dork) puter dies try to restart it almost acts like it surges and shuts off almost immidatly pulled of the side pannel it was like an oven in the case apparently the fan in my psu died :( or never worked at all since it never sounded like it was running and finaly died or something but yah ive got a friend who can get me
cooler master RS-600 ASAA 600w psu really cheap via his employee discount and manufactor mail in rebate

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817171011

anyone ever use a cooler master psu before? as far as relyability power noise etc....?
any help would be greatly appretiated ^_^ thanks

oh yah i just checked my old psu with a multimeter its completly gone motherboard cable as well as 12v are showing 1-2v to 0 volts molex are showing no voltage as well, so i opened the psu up and its all nice and gooey all over mmmmm smell of burnt computer componits

anyway any suggestions of a new psu would be greatly appretiated

Specs:
Athlon 64 3200+ 754
1.5gb pc4000 Corsair XMS pro
XFX nVidia Geforce 6800gt 256mb
2 optical drives 16xdvd, 48x24x48 burner
2 EIDE wd hard drives (20gb, 80gb)
Gigiabyte GAK8N-pro nForce3 chipset
2 120mm Antec case fans
Zalman Fatal1ty FSv7 80mm vid card heatsync/fan
stock cpu cooling (yah ran out of money when i upgraded probably gonna get a zalman sooner or later)
 
400w? too low for what im running had a 400w and it could bairly power my system, kept having problems with lack of power
 
What was your old PSU? There are all different classes of 400W PSU and different ways of arriving at that wattage.
 
The CoolerMaster is a decent PSU but you could do a lot better for the same amount of money.

Look at offerings from FSP (Fortron/Sparkle), Seasonic, Silverstone, etc...

FSP is probably right up your alley.
 
im getting the coolermaster one for around 40 bucks after rebates n such, but yah the 400w i had was an Antec Truepower 400w 2.0 piece of crap fried, and had problems running everything in my case expecialy after i added the 2 ccl's x-fi card wireless card etc... even then it had power problems which may have been atributed to heat, i grabbed my sisters 500w ocz powerstream out of her case and everything seems to be running fine on my puter though i didnt get much of a chance to stress test anything.
 
Why would you take something that isn't as good as the Silverstone? The Antec PSUs arn't as good as Silverstones, which would explain the failing.
 
ended up getting an ENERMAX Whisper II EG565P-VE FMA(24P) 535W Power Supply so far nor problems its running nice n cool too, im still gonna add ither a zalman slimfan to the top of my case 80mm or 120mm or something a little stronger with more cfm to clear up some of the heat issues at the top of the case kuz it seemd a little warm when i opened the case after a few hours of use which adding a blowhole on the top of the case should help out alot.
 
XeRo_Dark said:
ended up getting an ENERMAX Whisper II EG565P-VE FMA(24P) 535W Power Supply so far nor problems its running nice n cool too, im still gonna add ither a zalman slimfan to the top of my case 80mm or 120mm or something a little stronger with more cfm to clear up some of the heat issues at the top of the case kuz it seemd a little warm when i opened the case after a few hours of use which adding a blowhole on the top of the case should help out alot.
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Good choice, great psu.
 
XeRo_Dark said:
ended up getting an ENERMAX Whisper II EG565P-VE FMA(24P) 535W Power Supply so far nor problems its running nice n cool too, im still gonna add ither a zalman slimfan to the top of my case 80mm or 120mm or something a little stronger with more cfm to clear up some of the heat issues at the top of the case kuz it seemd a little warm when i opened the case after a few hours of use which adding a blowhole on the top of the case should help out alot.
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Good thing you made this thread.
 
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