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Dunan

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Any good? Just bought a 600W, seemed to do good in reviews. Any history I should know about? Do they have a reputation like TT PSU's?
It was either this one or a TT toughpower 750 to choose from for a crossfire rig......
 
Dunan said:
Any good? Just bought a 600W, seemed to do good in reviews. Any history I should know about? Do they have a reputation like TT PSU's?
It was either this one or a TT toughpower 750 to choose from for a crossfire rig......
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The Striders are Enhance units, very good indeed. Much better then a TT supply.
 
SS has quite the exact opposite reputation as TT does. cases or psu's, SS is quality throughout while TT is a mixed bag. btw i have the ST60F and its a great power supply.
 
I have to take it back and exchange it, I need the bottom one.

http://www.silverstonetek.com/QA-POWER.htm

Mine it says "issued dec. 2005" :eek: :eek:
And it has the galvanised coating.

I was holding the correct one in the store before I grabbed this one I remember seeing the "RoHS" sticker on the other one :eek:
 
I ran a ST60F on my current gaming box, before moving it to my file server(The 120MM fan was the wrong positioning for my custom G5 case, so when I moved my game rig to the G5 case, the SS had to go). So far no issues running NINE hdds on an A64 fileserver and it had no issues powering my Dual-Core A64 SLi rig.
 
TT 750 is a CWT. So it's not a flakey unit.

I'd still take the enhance-based silverstone.
 
I'm worried about what happened in the guru3d review

It was fine in prey last night but oblivion might be another story :(
 
In the guru3d review, that was happening only because both pci-e connectors on the strider are wired ot the same rail. Try a molex --> pci-e adaptor, and you should have no problems.
 
It says this on thier website

**ST60F with two PCI-E adapters included also do not require the use of 4pin to 6pin PCI-E adapters for balancing +12V loading between two graphics cards.**

It came with those adapters but i'm not sure how to balance the loads on the cards :eek:

*PSU illiterate*
 
Dunan said:
It says this on thier website

**ST60F with two PCI-E adapters included also do not require the use of 4pin to 6pin PCI-E adapters for balancing +12V loading between two graphics cards.**

It came with those adapters but i'm not sure how to balance the loads on the cards :eek:

*PSU illiterate*
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*cough* RTFM *cough* ;) Just kidding.

The manual shows you what connectors go to what rail. Once you see this in writing in front of you, you'll probably find that both PCI-e are on one rail and all of the peripherals on one of the others. Just use the adapter to move one of the cards off to the peripheral's rail.
 
The manual doesn't seem to have any directions like that :(

On the pic here there are 2 pci-e inputs - I have a pci-e cable from each input on the PSU going to each video card, both slots filled.
I'm assuming that this is how to do this, instead of both pci-e cards hooked up via one input/slot off the PSU.

:confused:

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Dunan said:
The manual doesn't seem to have any directions like that :(

On the pic here there are 2 pci-e inputs - I have a pci-e cable from each input on the PSU going to each video card, both slots filled.
I'm assuming that this is how to do this, instead of both pci-e cards hooked up via one input/slot off the PSU.

:confused:
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No. The two PCI-e connectors are on the same rail. But I would say that you wouldn't want both cards on the same cable.

You're not confusing "rails" with "cables" are you? Just because something is on two connectors doesn't mean it's on two rails.

On the last two pages of the manual, you see how they list the wiring of each connector? See how the 12V lines are labeled 12V1, 12V2, 12V3 and 12V4?

The last table shows the PCI-e connectors. There's two. The table says those connectors are on 12V3.

You'll see in the first table that 12V3 also feeds power to the main ATX connector. That means ALL of the PCI-e power is on 12V3 and not split up between two rails like most quad-12V-rail PSU's where the main ATX connector is on one rail and the two PCI-e's are on another.

If you look around for 12V4, you'll find that only the peripherals are on 12V4. That's likely not as much as a load as the 12V3, so the thing to do would be to take the four-pin to PCI-e adapter and connect one of your PCI-e cards over to it, thus taking it off of the 12V3 rail.
 
Yeah, i'm confusing them I think :eek:

Is there a diagram to show how this is supposed to be connected?

I have the dual 4 pin adapter to single 6 pin PCI-e.

1 4 pin slot is connected to 2 cd-roms
1 4 pin slot is connected to the fans.

There are 2 4 pin molex connection inputs i'm not using. Do I plug one of those in (one slot on PSU, 3 total now filled) and use 2 4 pin molex connects FROM THE SAME CABLE to the adapter (like hooking up 2 cd-roms) or do I:

Connect another molex (all 4 pin slots filled) and use ONE molex FROM EACH cable?

:confused:
*reallyPSUilliterate*
 
To reduce resistance, I would plug two Molex cables into two modular interfaces and then hook the adapter up to both cables.
 
jonnyGURU said:
To reduce resistance, I would plug two Molex cables into two modular interfaces and then hook the adapter up to both cables.
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Absolutly wonderful you are the man, thank you so much :cool:
 
Just drew a picture in case people still don't understand.

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Well I just tried it in the way suggested and it wouldn't boot.

:(

I'm still confused on why I got 4 PCI-e connecters in the package.

:confused: <------me :(

I will probably just rip this one out and exchange it for the updated one :cool:
 
Actually no, I haven't :confused:

I've been gaming on Oblivion for the last couple hours and It doesn't even seem like the PSU's getting that hot, it's not blowing that much hot air. I'm surprised, maybe I won't exchange it for another :)

I did replace both the front and rear fans with antec tricools and cranked them on high
 
So wait a minute.... you're trying to fix a problem you don't even have? :confused: :confused:

And the problem with the PSU has nothing to do with heat. It has to do with overloading a rail causing the rail limiter to trip. If the video cards haven't put enough of a load on the PSU to trip it, they're not going to.
 
jonnyGURU said:
So wait a minute.... you're trying to fix a problem you don't even have? :confused: :confused:

And the problem with the PSU has nothing to do with heat. It has to do with overloading a rail causing the rail limiter to trip. If the video cards haven't put enough of a load on the PSU to trip it, they're not going to.
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He is out to get Silverstone, I can feel it ;)
 
jonnyGURU said:
So wait a minute.... you're trying to fix a problem you don't even have? :confused: :confused:

And the problem with the PSU has nothing to do with heat. It has to do with overloading a rail causing the rail limiter to trip. If the video cards haven't put enough of a load on the PSU to trip it, they're not going to.
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No I don't have a problem YET but when I did a review on this PSU it shut down in a crossfire setup - silverstone said they had fixed it by putting out a new revision to fix the "problem" under the same model, but DIDN'T update the specs on the box. I just don't want this happening to me :eek:
 
Dunan said:
No I don't have a problem YET but when I did a review on this PSU it shut down in a crossfire setup - silverstone said they had fixed it by putting out a new revision to fix the "problem" under the same model, but DIDN'T update the specs on the box. I just don't want this happening to me :eek:
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You should be fine.
 
I'll take your word for it, you guys seem to know what you're talking about - I had no issues whatsoever with Oblivion last night so I guess that's a good indication.

Thanks for the help!! :p
 
After extensive Oblivion last night there were absolutly no problems, so I'm convinced this PSU is a keeper. :p
 
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