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5. November 2008 @ 19:31 |
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The TX750 however, is not modular.
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5. November 2008 @ 19:32 |
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Can someone please tell witch psu to on a buget of around £60
thanks sam for a looking over the card.
so what would you compare the card match to @ nvidia better than a 8800gtx or same as a 9800gtx.
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5. November 2008 @ 19:35 |
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Slightly better than a 9800GTX+, so a noticeable improvement over an 8800GTX.
For £60, it's the Corsair HX 520W, hands down.
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5. November 2008 @ 19:58 |
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i know its not modular, but the be quiet 750Ws have 4 8 pins aswell, and yes i know they cost like £105 from scan (not in stock) or the 850W zalmans cost around £130, which is the same as the 850W Be quiets.
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5. November 2008 @ 20:07 |
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But the 650W Bequiets can't run two 4870X2s, the 850W Zalmans can. I can't find the 750W units for sale in the UK at least.
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5. November 2008 @ 20:40 |
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ran out of stock ATM :D
i didnt say the 650w can run 2.... the 850s can, yes, but no 4 8pin PCIEs, where as the similar prices be quiet can, and the TX750W can aswell, and in sure the toughpower 750W can aswell.
im not putting down the PSU, but only the lack of that cableing. everywhere else is a magical PSU.
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5. November 2008 @ 20:49 |
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Scan may be out of stock, but I don't see it on any other website, and that suggests to me it isn't available at the moment, i.e. discontinued or awaiting re-supply.
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5. November 2008 @ 20:59 |
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aye it was last week, and OcUK had 105 last week when they had stock aswell. its like it ran out lool
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5. November 2008 @ 21:56 |
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The 600W Zalman is fine, but far from exemplary,
Zalman makes everything as nice as possible. I have a few of their various video card coolers and they're excellent. I'd assume, with such a nice design, plus the extra cooling, it'd be a damn fine PSU.
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6. November 2008 @ 04:03 |
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It's a solid, well built PSU, but it's not as quiet as units like Corsair and BeQUiet, whereas the 850 and 1KW units are.
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6. November 2008 @ 05:53 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Slightly better than a 9800GTX+, so a noticeable improvement over an 8800GTX.
Are you referring to the 4850???
If so, that's a sick card
(+[_]%) 1: 2.60 > 2.80 > 2.81 >3.03 > 1.50 > 3.52M33 > 3.52M33-4 > 3.90M33 > 3.90M33-3 > 4.01M33 > 4.01M33-2 > 5.00M33 > 5.00M33-3
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6. November 2008 @ 07:08 |
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yes we was talking about the 4850 watched a vid on youtube about it.
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6. November 2008 @ 09:10 |
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Yep, the HD4850 is about 5% faster than a 9800GTX+, the HD4870 and GTX260 about 30%, the GTX260 Maxcore about 45%, the GTX280 about 50%, and the HD4870X2 anywhere between 35 and 180%.
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6. November 2008 @ 09:14 |
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Thanks for those stats ;)
Wish I win that rig
(+[_]%) 1: 2.60 > 2.80 > 2.81 >3.03 > 1.50 > 3.52M33 > 3.52M33-4 > 3.90M33 > 3.90M33-3 > 4.01M33 > 4.01M33-2 > 5.00M33 > 5.00M33-3
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6. November 2008 @ 17:23 |
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Shaff, we share your excitement about the recent election. Because it's such an historic occasion, not to get political - loco or creaky: worldwide excitement about election results
Sam, I'm confused about a recent post:
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The 600W Zalman is fine, but far from exemplary, the Corsair HX 620W is a much better unit. Only the 850W and 1KW Zalmans are in the 'superb' category.
You had said that Zardon couldn't get anything to work reliably with triple and quad crossfire except for the Corsair 1000 - so how come it's not on your "superb" short list? Or is it a noise issue?
-Rich
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6. November 2008 @ 17:25 |
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It's more than superb. It's a SuperbX2, but only when your drivers are working! ahah
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6. November 2008 @ 17:33 |
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The Corsair HX 1KW is one of the best PSUs money can buy from everything I've read, but I haven't found much to read, the Zalman however, I've seen real reviews of and they are mindblowing, Corsair HX 520/620 units are pretty damn quiet (they're quiet enough for me even) at idle, yet the 1KW Zalman can put out 500W before they're even as loud as the Corsairs at half that figure.
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harvrdguy
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6. November 2008 @ 17:45 |
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Holy cr*p, the zalman has a dual heat-pipe system inside the PSU (zalman 1000.) Like the corsair it's a split system (I was hoping it was single rail) featuring "ultra quiet" 140mm fan - like corsair. Heat-pipes!!
-Rich
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6. November 2008 @ 17:47 |
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Zalman have been doing that for a while, irony is, they're so damn efficient, there's not that much heat to get rid of :)
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6. November 2008 @ 17:49 |
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Well for now, my 620HX and my OCZ StealthXstream 600W are running like champs. The OCZ is sertiously the most impressive PSU I have ever used for the price. It was almost half the price of the Corsair but, aside from modular cabling, it's of the same level of performance and quality. Just for the record, it handles 4870's in Crossfire just fine even under IBT max load. But it suits the dual core build better as I want the brute power of the Corsair :P
My 620W Enermax Liberty is making a comeback as well. I was able to order a replacement fan controller for it, so if it even remotely works, I want to use it again. The PSU still works fine, it's just noisy as hell because the fan is stuck at 100% :P
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6. November 2008 @ 17:55 |
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harvrdguy
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6. November 2008 @ 18:21 |
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Boozer, which one was superbx2, and what do drivers have to do with a PSU? (lay off the booze lol)
The Corsair on newegg is slightly more expensive than the zalman, shaff, so for the money, it is MORE money. So do you still prefer it to Zalman?
Sam I see your point, the zalman claims 86% efficiency. Greater efficiency equals less heat (back to the problem with tec coolers.) One newegg review on the zalman said it increased his case temp by 3 degrees C so heat is an issue - if other PSUs put out even MORE heat - we don't want that, right?
And Sam is the master of quiet. Sam, is the zalman more quiet than the corsair? They are both running the same type of fan. But is the zalman able to keep things cooler with the heat pipes, so as to keep the fan rpms down compared to the corsair for same power usage? They talked about some kind of space-station-type stepping technology for maximizing efficiency. At 50% the corsair starts a fairly steep 45 degree ramp up in rpm and noise level. What about the zalman?
-Rich
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6. November 2008 @ 18:23 |
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The Zalman is the quietest PSU ever made, so that's a hard act for the HX 1KW to follow. If it does match it, I highly doubt it would beat it. The Zalman has a relatively gradual noise curve beyond 50%, but nonetheless has one.
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harvrdguy
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6. November 2008 @ 18:32 |
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Well, "quietest PSU ever" is tough to beat. The Zalman just got added to my "Shaff mofo" newegg new build wishlist :P
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6. November 2008 @ 18:36 |
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It is an admirable unit, and if I was building a no holds barred PSU, I'd probably get one (and since I'd be rich I'd probably get an HX 1000 too to try it out) :)
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