Little Advice

cian1500ww

I'm upgrading a home server I built that has the worst, crappy, noisy PSU ever. Its a 500W no brand PSU and it's way to noisy for running 24/7. I was looking at the Corsair VX 550W PSU http://www.dabs4work.ie/products/corsair-memory-550w-vx-psu-4Q0T.html Anyone have one of these ?? I've read a few reviews and they all say it's a good quiet PSU. I need a good reliable one but I don't need huge wattage as the server has no graphics card and only one hard drive for the moment but I may add one or two more into it in the future.

Anti

Corsair are fine psu's ive owned the 620, 650 750, 850 and 1kw versions all silent and stable.

AlmightyCushion

Have that exact psu in my gaming pc. It's a great PSU, very quiet and I've never had any problems with it.

Effluo

You should probably just save yourself some money and get a corsair cx400 though.

You won't need any more wattage

The only thing you should look out for is, if you have quite a few hard-drives that there are enough connectors on the psu

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=404885

AlmightyCushion

Effluo wrote: »

You should probably just save yourself some money and get a corsair cx400 though.

You won't need any more wattage

The only thing you should look out for is, if you have quite a few hard-drives that there are enough connectors on the psu

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=404885

Definitely. My 550w powers a q6600, 2 HDDs, and an overclocked 4870. Probably still has loads of juice left in it.

Effluo

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Definitely. My 550w powers a q6600, 2 HDDs, and an overclocked 4870. Probably still has loads of juice left in it.

You could run xfire 4870's off a good 550watt!

It would deffo push the psu though...

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-4870,1964-15.html

Anti

You can actually run a i7 with 8gigs of ram, 6 hdds and 2 5870's on a 500w psu

Its not just about the wattage remember, its about the rails and how many amps are supplied and peak/effeciency.