Found a replacement power supply ?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 03:39:04PM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> Greetings, all.
> 
> For those that remember, my desktop power supply seems to have died
> and I am looking for a replacement with a higher wattage than the
> original. I can't turn on my desktop any more so I am unable to
> reply directly to those who had commented and/or provided info
> regarding my search.
> 
> Thank you for those that replied. I want to get the supply from Best
> Buy as I can easily walk over there to return a supply if it turns
> out it isn't suitable or goes bad. Other suppliers would mean
> getting someone to drive me back to a store or pay to have item
> mailed back.
> 
> I eliminated the supplies for which I could find no detailed
> specifications, that were less than 80% efficient, or did not have
> at least 19A on the +12V rail (as recommended by the video card I'm
> using). Detailed reviews on some of the remaining choices has also
> not been easy, if any were found.
> 
> I was down to two power supplies: Antec EarthWatts 650 Green
> (EA650), or the Corsair TX650 (CMPSU-650TXV2). They are close in
> price and each near the limit of what I wanted to spend. I just
> discovered Best Buy now has the Corsair CX600M (CP-9020060-NA)
> available for a few dollars less. Some reviews mentioning short life
> of the Antec pushed me towards the Corsair TX650, despite a common
> issue it has with fan noise, but now I'm thinking of going with the
> CX600M.
> 
> The CX600M is 50W less but that won't make a difference as the
> original supply was only 300W and being modular solves the issue of
> trying to stuff all the power supply cables in to a mid-size tower
> box. There are only has 3 SATA connectors which I will use for the
> pair of HD's and I can use adapters (possibly from the original
> supply) to convert Molex (peripheral) connectors to SATA for the two
> DVD drives.
> 
> The only nagging concern is the video I saw of a CX600 (non-modular)
> that let out copious amounts of "magic smoke" when it died while
> idling. The CX600M likely to have the same basic guts as the CX600.
> Videos of supplies tested to failure have not died in such a
> fashion.

I seem to remember reading that the TX650 isn't that good (at least
the model made a few years ago wasn't), unlike the TX750, 850 and 1000
(which are similar and made by a different maker than the 650).

-- 
Len Sorensen
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