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Jigar wrote:I don't know if i should take the pain and go get it RMA, i have just lost faith in their product.
morphine wrote:Jigar wrote:I don't know if i should take the pain and go get it RMA, i have just lost faith in their product.
Be smart and do the RMA.
If you don't do it, you will have lost whatever you spent on the PSU. If you get a new power supply, at least you got your money's worth.
just brew it! wrote:Well, any brand can have an occasional dud. But that said, I guess I haven't been particularly impressed with Coolermaster's stuff in general -- it's not terrible, but not great either.
potatochobit wrote:but the model you bought is one of the cheapy cheaps
anotherengineer wrote:Well apparently the coolermaster GX-750 is made by Seventeam. and it's a fail lol
just brew it! wrote:anotherengineer wrote:Well apparently the coolermaster GX-750 is made by Seventeam. and it's a fail lol
Not an epic fail though; it still got a 7 out of 10. If not for the fact that they're marketing it as a 750W unit it would actually be pretty reasonable.
ozymandias wrote:The problem with coolermaster (, OCZ and thermaltake) PSUs is that the quality is not consistent. Those 3 brands all had very good PSUs, but also did some marketing tricks to get crappy ones sold for a high price. Best to check reviews before you buy any of them.
potatochobit wrote:btw, if your setup in your sig is correct you were probably running that little thing at close to max load constantly
I suggest you upgrade to 650w
MrJP wrote:potatochobit wrote:btw, if your setup in your sig is correct you were probably running that little thing at close to max load constantly
I suggest you upgrade to 650w
Actually, his system is probably well below 350W. Here's a 5850 with a power-gobbling i7-965 pulling 281W at the wall, so around 230W from the PSU. Even allowing for the overclocking, with a Q6600 he won't be much over 300W. It's the massive over-estimation of PSU requirements that seems to lead a lot of people to buy cheap PSUs with over-optimistic ratings rather than something decent with a realistic rating in the first place.
Jigar wrote:MrJP wrote:Actually, his system is probably well below 350W. Here's a 5850 with a power-gobbling i7-965 pulling 281W at the wall, so around 230W from the PSU. Even allowing for the overclocking, with a Q6600 he won't be much over 300W. It's the massive over-estimation of PSU requirements that seems to lead a lot of people to buy cheap PSUs with over-optimistic ratings rather than something decent with a realistic rating in the first place.
Well, i would say, that's the only reason i went with 550 Watt PSU. I wanted to make sure that i don't max out my PSU, so the best thing is to keep atleast 100watt margin.
just brew it! wrote:Jigar wrote:MrJP wrote:Actually, his system is probably well below 350W. Here's a 5850 with a power-gobbling i7-965 pulling 281W at the wall, so around 230W from the PSU. Even allowing for the overclocking, with a Q6600 he won't be much over 300W. It's the massive over-estimation of PSU requirements that seems to lead a lot of people to buy cheap PSUs with over-optimistic ratings rather than something decent with a realistic rating in the first place.
Well, i would say, that's the only reason i went with 550 Watt PSU. I wanted to make sure that i don't max out my PSU, so the best thing is to keep atleast 100watt margin.
Having some margin is a very good thing. But MrJP's point is that in reality, a reputable 450W unit may have more margin than a dodgy 600W one.
just brew it! wrote:ozymandias wrote:The problem with coolermaster (, OCZ and thermaltake) PSUs is that the quality is not consistent. Those 3 brands all had very good PSUs, but also did some marketing tricks to get crappy ones sold for a high price. Best to check reviews before you buy any of them.
Yup, tell me about it. A few years ago I bought several Thermaltake PSUs, based on there being a few people here on the forums who claimed to have had very good luck with them. They were absolute junk. All of them either died outright, or had weird stability issues (e.g. system randomly powering off for no reason). I see that some of their newer PSUs are getting pretty good reviews these days; but my past experience with them was so dismal that I'm still avoiding them on principle.