Is it just me or am I the only one who shells out all my money on power supplies. I see people here who spend $400+ on video cards, yet skimp out on their PSU. I could never spend that much money on a video card. My max is around $200. But when it comes to power supplies, there is no limit. I am willing to pay whatever for the most power efficient, quality built PSU available. The PSU is the heart of the computer. I figure it deserves to be the most expensive component in your PC. What do you think?
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Spending money on PSUs
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Most expensive? Hardly, but it does need to be hardy and reliable. There's no need for a $500 PSU in a $1500 PC when a quality $100-$150 unit will do the job quite nicely.
Spend more if you feel you must but given the choice of spending $500 on a GPU and a PSU I'd go for the $400 vid card and a good $100 PSU. There are several that will do the job quite well. Rather that than spend $300 on a PSU and $200 on a vid card, I tend to use my video cards for a long ass time so the investment is well worth it.
Spend more if you feel you must but given the choice of spending $500 on a GPU and a PSU I'd go for the $400 vid card and a good $100 PSU. There are several that will do the job quite well. Rather that than spend $300 on a PSU and $200 on a vid card, I tend to use my video cards for a long ass time so the investment is well worth it.
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I buy power supplies that will last me a long time, since my demands aren't too high, given that I also tend to keep video cards for a while.
I don't buy cheap stuff, since my current power supply is an Antec Truepower Trio 650, and my video card is a GeForce 7900GS in one system, and a Silverstone Zeus 650 + Radeon x1950GT in another, but at the same time, I'm not one who would spend the money for an 8800GTX + PCPC unit. I am, however, comfortable in knowing that the above units can easily power up a single 8800GTX, or something similar.
The way I figure, if the above mentioned units can power up my system stably, and have a bit of room for future cards, then I've spent my money as wisely as I can. By the time the above power supplies are no longer powerful enough, I figure that the prices on power supplies that are powerful enough, will have dropped to the amount that I have paid for the above mentioned units.
Once I do get a new power supply, I relegate my older ones to simpler builds, or use them to upgrade systems that need them.
This way, spending 100-150 for a power supply every three years, beats spending 500 dollars for a power supply that I'd keep for five years.
Of course, I could end up eating my words, since technology does progress rather rapidly...
I don't buy cheap stuff, since my current power supply is an Antec Truepower Trio 650, and my video card is a GeForce 7900GS in one system, and a Silverstone Zeus 650 + Radeon x1950GT in another, but at the same time, I'm not one who would spend the money for an 8800GTX + PCPC unit. I am, however, comfortable in knowing that the above units can easily power up a single 8800GTX, or something similar.
The way I figure, if the above mentioned units can power up my system stably, and have a bit of room for future cards, then I've spent my money as wisely as I can. By the time the above power supplies are no longer powerful enough, I figure that the prices on power supplies that are powerful enough, will have dropped to the amount that I have paid for the above mentioned units.
Once I do get a new power supply, I relegate my older ones to simpler builds, or use them to upgrade systems that need them.
This way, spending 100-150 for a power supply every three years, beats spending 500 dollars for a power supply that I'd keep for five years.
Of course, I could end up eating my words, since technology does progress rather rapidly...
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I buy nothing but PCP&C PSU's......I'm sure there are others that might be as good or better ...but I have had good luck with these and see no reason to change.