PSU opinions - Hiper 580W

Stephen

This PSU at Peats looks like quite the bargain, at €109 inc vat. I'm thinking of getting it - any reason why not?

FYI it'll be powering the following:

Abit AN8 board
Athlon 64 3200+ s939 (venice)
2gb PC3200 RAM (256*2+512+1gb)
3 IDE HDD's, 1 SATA HDD
1 DVD-RW
1 CD-RW (mightn't bother with this though)
nVidia 6800GT PCI-E
PCI tv card
couple of USB devices

That's about it.

Edit: I've seen in another thread that PC World have this or a similar Hiper 580W PSU for 99 euros, but there's no PC world near me so postage from peats seems fair enough (even though they do charge 14 euros for delivery).

uberpixie

Hipers are ok. known to be flakey at full load though.

Go to www.custompc.co.uk, have a look at CPUs under the labs section.

There are reviews for 29 psu's.

Overall they and other sites such as toms hardware recommend seasonic drives.

You can buy them off komplett.ie

Domster

I seen on other forums that the Hiper 580W failed somepeople after just a couple of months. I think six people on the same forum had to replace their new Hipers. I've got a Seasonic 600W. It's one of the best PSUs around and I'd recommend it.

conzy

I put a Hiper in my dads PC and its grand cause he wont be overclocking, but if you are overclocking get a tagan or a seasonic or anything other than the hiper, they seem good, but you are paying for the "bling" and a site reviewed one and the soldering was unreliable, I would go for something a bit better and if you want one with "bling" go for this

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=308878&cks=PRL

Ronan|Raven

Company I work for sells a large quanitity of them and tbh we get nearly no faulty units back. Thats my only dealing with them however.

masteroftherealm

conzymaher wrote:

I put a Hiper in my dads PC and its grand cause he wont be overclocking, but if you are overclocking get a tagan or a seasonic or anything other than the hiper, they seem good, but you are paying for the "bling" and a site reviewed one and the soldering was unreliable, I would go for something a bit better and if you want one with "bling" go for this

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=308878&cks=PRL

Dunno where ya go that info!!
One of the stableist PSU's out there for OCing man!! Right after the OCZ powerstream!! Excellent PSU's!

youcancallmeal

I've heard good things about about that particular Hiper PSU, An excellent video review can be found here

You could always get the OCZ Modstream 520w which I've got and am very happy with

Kintarō Hattori

I have one myself and I'm more than happy with it, but then I could be accused of being biased, but I have nothing other than negative feelings for the company I work for, so you can take my opinion as being unbiased!

AnCapaillMor

youcancallme>al wrote:

I've heard good things about about that particular Hiper PSU, An excellent video review can be found here

Nice one, think i'll be going with that one meself now.

Jammer

I've got (a black) one, right now its powering...

3.4GHZ P4 @ 4.5GHZ
Swiftech W/C
NF4 Asus Mobo, GB of DDR667
2 x 120GB Seagates in RAID
DVDRW
BFG 7800GT OC, OC'd 40 on core, .2 on mem
XFI Platinum (& b/o box)

And its 100% stable...

Stephen

Good to hear, cheers

savemejebus

i think i read somewhere that pc world will send you stuff if you ring and order for about 10 euro, could be worth checking out.

Also it's a little cheaper from pixmania (if you're willing to risk their customer service)

Ri_Nollaig

i also have one, had it about 6 months now without a single problem
the modular system is handy and is its very quite, all i wanted really

srdb20

Have one myself powering 7800gt's in SLI

Not one problem very stable, very reliable and quiet enough, well mine is anyway!!