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**mob** · Post subject: Power Supply Ratings Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 2:59 pm

Here is a nice chart of power supply ratings. Hopefully this will help the poeple on this board decide what it best for themselves. From everything I have read, it seems pretty faithful too.

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WHICH ONES TO BUY ??

Tier 1 can handle 4Ghz Conroe or 3Ghz AMD along with Oced Quad Crossfire/SLI With Ease.
Tier Z offers quality and power unequalled in its wattage range and is second only to other Zippy units.
Tier 2 offers almost as much power and stability as Tier 1 at Comparable Wattage levels with lower price/better availability.
Tier T offers the high quality components of Tier 2 with slightly less Rail stability due to Topower internals.
Tier 3 is ONLY Recommended if Price difference is present between Tier 3 and Tier 2 or due to availability issues with Tier 1/2 PSUs.
Tier 4 is recommended for stock or low power systems if Tier 3's are more expensive or are not available.
Tier 5 are NOT RECOMMENDED, but some brands have high/medium quality components in Tiers 2 through 4.

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Tier 1 Brands - The Most Powerful And Stable Components On The Market
Enermax Galaxy
PCP&C TurboCool
PCP&C Silencer >610
Zippy/Emacs SSL
Zippy/Emacs GSM
Zippy/Emacs PSL
Silverstone ZF (Etasis 85/75/56)
Seventeam ST >600 (SSI, V2.91)
Silverstone OP/DA >700W

Tier Z - Less Powerful Than Tier 1 Zippy Units...but they're still Zippys
Zippy/Emacs HG2
Zippy/Emacs HP2

Tier 2 Brands - Top Quality components With Top Notch Stability - For Those With Price/Availability Issues With Tier 1
Antec Neo HE
Akasa PowerGreen 80+
CoolMax CTG-750W/850W/1KW
Cooltek CT
Corsair HX
Enermax Liberty
Enermax Infiniti
Enhance ENP-GH
Fortron (FSP) GLN
Hiper Type-M >650W
Hiper Type-R >650W
iStarUSA PD2
iStarUSA PD3
OCZ GameXStream
OCZ EvoStream
PCP&C Silencer <610
Seasonic S12
Seasonic M12
Seasonic Energy Plus
SevenTeam ST <600
Silverstone EF
Silverstone OP/DA <700W
Supermicro/AbleCom
Thermaltake Toughpower >600W
Xclio GreatPower
Zalman ZM
Ultra X3
Ultra X-Pro

Tier T - High Quality PSUs Made With Topower Internals - Less Rail Stability Compared To Tier 2 But Still Better than Tier 3
Mushkin Enhanced
Tagan U95
Tagan U25
Tagan U15
Tagan U22
OCZ PowerStream

Tier 3 Brands - High Quality and Stability, Second Only To Tier 2 Brands
Acbel Polycom
AMS Mercury
Akasa PaxPower
Akasa PowerPlus (>500W Models)
Antec Phantom
Antec TruePower III
Antec True Power II
Antec True Control II
Antec Neopower 480W (Old Model)
Antec Smart Power 2.0
Athena Power Space Shuttle Series
Be Quiet Dark Power Pro
Channel Well
Enermax Maximum Plus
Enermax Noistaker II
Enermax Noisetaker
Enermax Whisper II
Enermax CoolerGiant
Enhance ENS-G
Epower Xscale
Fortron (FSP) GLC
Fortron (FSP) THN
Fortron AX
Fortron HLN
Fortron PFN/PN/PA
Seasonic Super Versatile
Silverstone F
Sparkle FSP
Spire Rocketeer V/VI
Sunbeam Nuuo
Thermaltake Purepower
Thermaltake Toughpower <600W

Tier 4 - Not Recommend With Tier 3 In same Price/Wattage Range
Aerocool
Asus Atlas
BFG
Coolermaster Real Power
Coolermaster iGreen
Delta
Enlight
E-Power
Futurepower
Hiper
HIPRO
Lite-On
Masscool
MGE XG
Mushkin HP
NorthQ 4775-500S/BU
OCZ Modstream
Scythe Kamariki
Sintek
Thermaltake TR2
TTGI/Superflower
Ultra Xfinity/X2

Tier 5 - Other than the units listed above for any of these brands, NOT RECOMMENDED
A-TOP Technology
APEX (SUPERCASE/ALLIED)
Aspire(Turbo Case)
ATADC
Athena Power
ATRIX
Broadway Com Corp
Cooler Master
Coolmax
Deer
Diablotek
Dynapower USA
EagleTech
FOXCONN
I-Star Computer Co. Ltd
In Win
JPAC COMPUTER
Just PC
Kingwin Inc.
Linkworld Electronics
Logisys Computer
MGE
MSI
NMEDIAPC
Norwood Micro/ CompUSA
NorthQ
NZXT
Powmax
Q-Tec
Raidmax
Rosewill
SFC
Shuttle
Skyhawk
Spire Coolers
Star Micro
STARTECH
TOPOWER TOP
Ultra X-Connect
Wintech
XClio
XION
YoungYear
Zebronics

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Originally posted on XtremeSystems.org

EDIT: Stickied!
EDIT 2: Updated

**Jacob062406** · Post subject: Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:01 pm

Very nice you should sticky this.

**Dkory22** · Member Joined: Jul 25 2005 Posts: 823 Location: Michigan

Whats wrong with the Ultra X-Connect?

**Jacob062406** · Post subject: Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:38 pm

Yeah and Rosewill is a good power supply I can say hands down they work great!

**PCracer51** · Post subject: Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:11 pm

I think all of mine are currently in the Tier 5 range, sadly.

**Jacob062406** · Post subject: Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:21 pm

Yeah I have 2 Tier 2 and the rest are either Tier 3 or Tier 5 but hell they all work and I am very happy Smile

**mob** · Post subject: Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:06 am

**Dkory22** · Member Joined: Jul 25 2005 Posts: 823 Location: Michigan

I also put a coolermaster 450 watt in my girlfriend's computer and it works great. Extremely quiet and plenty of power for her Athlon x2 3800+ am2, 1 gb of ram, 7600gt and 250 gb hard drive. I will say the Ultra I have is a little loud (PSU silencer and sound dampening material helped very little). But, it looks really great, is modular so there are minimal wires and its been stable since I got it.

**fury08** · Post subject: Re: Power Supply Ratings Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:31 am

I hope you mean Athlon X2 2.8 ghz. If it really is 3.8 then where can i get that?

EDIT: wow you fixed it just after i posted. Darn i was hoping there actually was a 3.8 ghz AMD CPU.

**Dkory22** · Member Joined: Jul 25 2005 Posts: 823 Location: Michigan

Lol I saw that and had to think about it myself for a second, good lookin out!

**Omnicia** · Member Joined: Aug 11 2007 Posts: 63 Location: Nebraska