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This a good enought PS?

No. PSU's are not the place you want to bargain hunt. You want excellent build quality and good continuous power and REAL WORLD power ratings.

I recommend PC Power, BFG, Silverstone, Seagate or Corsair.

A wise man once said, "the sweetness of low price soon fades while the bitterness of poor quality remains." :D
 
+1 for avoid Apevia like the plague. It's probably not even 500W, more like half that at best.
 
I had a friend that thought he would "save" some money by getting an Apevia power supply for his rig. After 4 months it blew and took his motherboard with it. As others have said, don't try to get by with a cheap power supply.
 
Corsair HX520 or OCZ 600W, will both run 2 - 260's certainly enough for one, and after rebates run between $50 and $70.
 
Marcam923 said:
or OCZ 600W
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Or rather don't get a shitty group-regulated budget Sirfa PSU that's barely capable of staying in spec at 40C.
Elledan said:
I'm also not sure whether I'd call SilverStone PSUs 'quality' I'd place those in the 'only buy if you have to choose between it and a Deer' category. *shrugs*
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Then you're badly misinformed. The Silverstone PSU that comes closest to being "bad" is the 700W Element, and even that unit is still in spec. Most of Silverstone's PSUs are very good or even excellent (as I would classify the new OP1000-P).
 
Zero82z said:
Then you're badly misinformed. The Silverstone PSU that comes closest to being "bad" is the 700W Element, and even that unit is still in spec. Most of Silverstone's PSUs are very good or even excellent (as I would classify the new OP1000-P).
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I did some reading back on a bunch of SilverStone PSU reviews at JonnyGuru and you're right. I'm not sure where I got the impression from that SS PSUs that bad. Still, even those aforementioned reviews make it clear that SS PSUs are only 'okay'. They're not bad, they're not good, they're just... okay :)
 
Except for the Silverstone Zeus lineup which are much better than ok...whose only peers are made by Zippy, Win-Tact and Delta....
 
Marcam923 said:
Never had a single issue with mine, but I guess it depends on what you are using it for.
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You may not have had problems, but that doesn't make it a good PSU. There are lots of better choices out there.
 
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