What do you qualities you consider in buying a power supply?
By scaflone8
@scaflone8 (190)
Philippines
June 17, 2011 11:55pm CST
Last Wednesday while I was massaging my mom I left the computer on, we suddenly heard something sparked and popping sounds. I hurried and pulled the plug off and open the computer and found out that my power supply is broken. I was a bit relieved that it was not my processor or any components of my motherboard. Now, I'm going to buy a power supply. So, I was wondering what are the things you consider in buying one. Some say its the weight and the brand of the power supply. I would like to know what you consider too and get some tips also so I could buy a nifty one.
Thank you in advance,
Scaflone
1 response
@Christoph56 (1504)
• Canada
18 Jun 11
I look at two factors for power supply, watts and noise. It sounds like you know your computer, and like to do upgrades to the parts in your computer, and if you're working with powerful video cards, sound cars, high ram, things like that, then a bigger power supply is really good to have. I had a 450w supply and it would make problems with going to multiple monitors, grainy issues with the whole thing. Now I have a 750w power supply. with 3 monitors, and I render video, and it's going smooth.
The second part is noise. Some power supplies have fans that are so loud you can hear them from across the room. Plenty of brands go with the direction of them being silent, so look around for quieter ones to pick one out.
Hope you get a good one!
@scaflone8 (190)
• Philippines
20 Jun 11
Wow 3 monitors that really takes a lot of power from the GPU alone. I just bought the power supply unit and I bought a 500w hope it can sustain although the last one i bought was a 650w. Not really sure what made it blow up but i hope this one last longer. Thanks for your input I'm gonna consider the noise to but gladly the one I bought is not laud.
