Corsair AX850 vs Silverstone Strider 1200W

[AverageNinja]

Dude, Silverstones customer service is awesome. I'v sent them e-mails and they have responded within the day and sorted my issue out. Looks wise, they are both black boxes! lol. The ripple paint on the Strider is nice though.

Yeah I've got to say after watching some pics the strider does look good. But I meant the reliability. Corsair PSUs are Seasonic branded. And seasonic is basically makes the best PSUs on this planet. Also the Corsair one has 7 years warranty. No idea how long the warranty of the Strider is
But I think I'll go for the Strider. 1200w for €165. 80+ gold. Awesome
EDIT: The sleeving of the AX850 seems better though (not going to sleef the cables myself. I'm only 15 and wouldn't trust myself enough to do this)

 

[PEXON]

I sleeved my Strider from scratch its easy peesy! The Strider is known to have some of the most user friendly terminals, in terms of ease of removing pins, a lot of the MD-PC boys use Strider PSU's so you know they are easy to use. If you want me to sleeve your PSU let me know! 9-3 in favour of the SS shows you how good they are too.

You never hear bad things about either brands PSU's though, but personally, I don't buy Corsair stuff, as well as a few other manufacturers, but thats all down to my own taste

 

[AverageNinja]

I sleeved my Strider from scratch its easy peesy! The Strider is known to have some of the most user friendly terminals, in terms of ease of removing pins, a lot of the MD-PC boys use Strider PSU's so you know they are easy to use. If you want me to sleeve your PSU let me know! 9-3 in favour of the SS shows you how good they are too.

You never hear bad things about either brands PSU's though, but personally, I don't buy Corsair stuff, as well as a few other manufacturers, but thats all down to my own taste

I don't plan on sleeving. I'll get some alchemy extensions
I might buy some PSU cables from ebay and sleeve them to practice. If this is succesful I might sleeve the cables.

 

[OcSurfer]

ive got some alchemy cables i was gunna post up, ill try and get them up by the end of the day so u can have a look bud, go for the silverstone you wont be dissapointed.
Pex, do mah cables!

 

[AverageNinja]

ive got some alchemy cables i was gunna post up, ill try and get them up by the end of the day so u can have a look bud, go for the silverstone you wont be dissapointed.
Pex, do mah cables!

I'm not going to buy anything yet sorry mate, thanks anyway

 

[Vicey]

Im most likely wrong but I thought that crossfire or sli didn't work with 3 monitors, I thought eyefinity only worked with 1 card?

You can use both Eyefinity and NVIDIA Surround (Including 3D) with both Crossfire and SLI.

In-fact until recently the only way to use NVIDIA Surround was to have an SLI setup or a Dual-GPU card such as the GTX 590 because the older NVIDIA cards even the ones fitted with three display outputs could only utilize two displays at once requiring a 2nd graphics card to output to the 3rd monitor. This situation changed with the release of the GTX 680 which is capable of driving four displays simultaneously.

ATi at first did not support Eyefinity when using Crossfire but this was not a hardware issue it was due to the drivers simply not having been written yet to offer that function. That was rectified many years ago and you can now use Crossfire with Eyefinity in a 3 or 6 display configuration.

 

[PEXON]

ive got some alchemy cables i was gunna post up, ill try and get them up by the end of the day so u can have a look bud, go for the silverstone you wont be dissapointed.
Pex, do mah cables!

I can do them mate!

 

[AverageNinja]

You can use both Eyefinity and NVIDIA Surround (Including 3D) with both Crossfire and SLI.

In-fact until recently the only way to use NVIDIA Surround was to have an SLI setup or a Dual-GPU card such as the GTX 590 because the older NVIDIA cards even the ones fitted with three display outputs could only utilize two displays at once requiring a 2nd graphics card to output to the 3rd monitor. This situation changed with the release of the GTX 680 which is capable of driving four displays simultaneously.

ATi at first did not support Eyefinity when using Crossfire but this was not a hardware issue it was due to the drivers simply not having been written yet to offer that function. That was rectified many years ago and you can now use Crossfire with Eyefinity in a 3 or 6 display configuration.

I thought so
However, is there any z77 motherboard that is compatible with 3-way CrossFire-X? I think the MSI Z77a-GD65 is, but I'm not sure.