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Trust 370W PSUs

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plugwash

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Anyone know how well these actually perform and/or know of any good reviews of them? I have one in a machine at my parents house (bought as any emergency replacement) but I can't seem to find any proper reviews of their PSUs.

I ask because they are a brand that are both well known and provide PSUs at the low end of the power spectrum at economical prices but I can't seem to find any proper reviews on them.

I'd never put such a PSU in a high end gamer rig but i'd think 370W is more than sufficient for a machine with a midrange CPU and a basic (read: doesn't require additional power connector) GPU.

Another possibility as a "go to low end PSU" is the corsair 430cx but it's nearly double the price of the trust ones at my local supplier and I can't seem to find any proper reviews of it's either.
 
You check Jonnyguru ?

I'd still use the cosair of antec ,etc just for the piece of mind knowing I have a solid psu in ANY system.

Never heard of the Trust brand name. Would worry me for down the road even on my other two systems.

It looks very low end from what I see over at their web page. Reminds me of the units I see in the dell pc's.
 
There are no proper reviews of the Trust PSUs AFAIK. Hell I can't even find a shitty review of the Trust PSUs at all. Don't see how they're well known in that case.

The fact that they're half the price of the Corsair 430CX pretty much raises warning bells right there. The 430CX PSUs are already fairly cheap in price.

The Trust PSU website is deliberately coy about their PSUs:
- No pictures or a chart of the PSU labels are shown. So can't even say if those 370W, 420W or 520W Trust PSUs are actually 370W, 420W, or 520W in wattage/amperage design/layout
- No information whether the PSUs were rated at peak or load
- No information of what temperatures those PSUs were rated at
- Nothing about who actually builds their PSUs can be found.
 
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From my quick visual inspection, it looks like a piece of shit. I wouldn't trust even a low-end system to a PSU like that.
 
My favorite aspect is that they're named "Trust". It seems any name that blatantly makes a psu sound reliable is generally terrible. The only thing I'd trust this psu to do is destroy your equipment.

Unlike the good companies that just use random two letter codenames (Corsair), or random powerful names (Antec), or random codenames/colors (XFX).
 
plugwash said:
Anyone know how well these actually perform and/or know of any good reviews of them? I have one in a machine at my parents house (bought as any emergency replacement) but I can't seem to find any proper reviews of their PSUs.

I ask because they are a brand that are both well known and provide PSUs at the low end of the power spectrum at economical prices but I can't seem to find any proper reviews on them.

I'd never put such a PSU in a high end gamer rig but i'd think 370W is more than sufficient for a machine with a midrange CPU and a basic (read: doesn't require additional power connector) GPU.

Another possibility as a "go to low end PSU" is the corsair 430cx but it's nearly double the price of the trust ones at my local supplier and I can't seem to find any proper reviews of it's either.
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As Danny stated, the deceptively low price is a giveaway that the PSU is very likely to be crap-tastic to begin with. I suspect that the "370W"-labeled unit is likely to handle only about 150W to 170W maximum under realistic internal PSU operating temperatures. That's barely adequate for an entry-level PC setup with a low-end dual-core CPU and no discrete GPU at all (since PSUs operate at its most efficient at only 50% to 60% of its actual, not claimed, maximum load). And even then, the Trust PSUs are likely to be much less efficient than the "good" PSUs we've been recommending.
 
Might be a leadman, I noticed the holes on the top of the heatsinks. Its an dead giveaway.
 
EngrChris said:
Might be a leadman, I noticed the holes on the top of the heatsinks. Its an dead giveaway.
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In this case, it might actually be the old Powmax under a new name, or it might be another subsidiary of Powmax's parent company (but I have not seen any confirmation that it is).
 
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EngrChris said:
Might be a leadman, I noticed the holes on the top of the heatsinks. Its an dead giveaway.
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Leadman is not the only manufacturer to use heatsinks with holes in the top. It could be a Leadman, but it could also be something else.
 
From what I know, Trust is the same as Q-tec. At least here in Europe the same units were later marketed under the Trust brand.
 
Danny Bui said:
There are no proper reviews of the Trust PSUs AFAIK. Hell I can't even find a shitty review of the Trust PSUs at all. Don't see how they're well known in that case.
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They have been arround for years and nearly every supplier I deal with in the UK sells their stuff but I can't seem to find any reviews of their PSUs.

With the exception of a wireless mouse that ate batteries i've largely had good experiance with thier stuff.

Danny Bui said:
The fact that they're half the price of the Corsair 430CX pretty much raises warning bells right there. The 430CX PSUs are already fairly cheap in price.
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heh, £40 seems a lot to spend on a PSU for fixing a bottom of the range system to me but maybe I am being unreasonable in expecting any £20 unit to be decent.

And even the 430CX I can't find any good reviews of (I did check jonnyguru and found a few forum posts but no review).

Hardforum and jonnyguru seem to do a good job of testing the high end gamer PSUs but only very occasionally do lower end units. I'm not aware of any similar sites that routinely do lower end units (if you know of any please tell me about them).
 
Just periodically check the sites listed in this PSU review database as sometimes a few lower units do get tested:
http://www.overclock.net/power-supplies/738097-psu-review-database.html

Hardware Secrets tends to do a lot of low-end and low-wattage PSU reviews.

But yes you are being very unreasonable in expecting a £20 unit to be decent.

Just to clarify: My definition of "decent" is: That it can meet its rated wattage/amperage at normal operating temperatures of 40C to 50C without killing the PC or exceeding ATX specifications.
 
Trust make rubbish low quality plastic peripherals in Europe. I have a couple of USB adaptors and a headset, and the headset and one of the adaptors broke after a year.

Wouldn't trust one of their PSUs :).

Incidentally @pug71, I've found Dell PSUs to be very good quality indeed, and their XPS PSUs are labelled at a much lower spec than what they can actually operate at. The '375W' PSU in my old XPS 420 very happily powered a Q6600 and GTX260 with no instability at all.
 
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