Corsair Enthusiast PSU Series

[1nKsTeR]

Newegg.com - CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX750 V2 750W ATX12V v2.31/ EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply

 

What are your guys thoughts...Got a Asus M5A97 mobo with AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition. I heard Corsair PSU's are not that great :/

[jazzy]

Corsair is great. Really for PSU's you just want to go namebrand, ie:

 

Antec/Corsair. I've had RaidMax/CoolerMaster PSU's before and they are fine as well. The hype surrounding PSU's is dumb. Just so long as you don't buy any cheap $20 1000W psu's you're fine. Also that PSU isn't modular. Modular PSU's are amazing and I recommend them.

[1nKsTeR]

Oh Id love to get a modular PSU, but Im trying to buy perforamce with also budgeting. ATM this is on sale for 99.99, 84.99 after mail-in rebate :/ Iv gotten all my parts while they were on sale. Takes time but its fun to shop newegg

[Silva]

If you really care about it being modular then this is probably your best bet:

Newegg.com - CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650M 650W ATX12V v2.31 / EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular High Performance Power Supply 650w

Newegg.com - CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX750M 750W ATX12V v2.31 / EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular High Performance Power Supply 750w

 

Or like the one you already posted but 650w and cheaper:

Newegg.com - CORSAIR Enthusiast Series CMPSU-650TX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply

[jazzy]

What's your rig going to be? You already posted what your CPU is but what of your GPU? You might not need 650w> if you aren't running high on your gpu which tends to be the most power consuming part.

[Chaoz`]

Corsair are really good PSU's, but i prefer be! Quiet, i've recently bought a 1000W modular PSU and i must say, i don't want anything else, even tho i don't need a 1000W.

 

I might need it in the future when i upgrade, they're really quiet and have loads of cables for enough HDD's and what not.

 

i recommend you don't hold back on the price.

 

 

Although some Corsair PSU's are shit you should stick with the HX series, they cost a bit more but have better efficiency.

[Shadowex3]

Antec USED to be good when Seasonic was actually making their power supplies and antec just stuck a sticker on them but they're crap now. Stick with Seasonic, PC Power & Cooling and Corsair and anything with either an 80plus certification or, and this is a special exactly-this-unit-only exemption, if one particular model was tested and found to be good by Jonnyguru then it's trustworthy. Unless you're making a multi-gpu machine (SLI or Xfire) then you can easily get away with a 650-750w psu being overkill.

 

Also help deciphering cosrair model names: HX will be modular, TX is fixed, and AX/CX are new lines I'm not familiar with yet.