Help me choose a psu - PLZ!

[Homez]

hi

i am stuck between two psu's:

thermaltake toughpower 850w/

Antec quattro 850W

which one do you recommend or are there any others... must be around 850w... any advice would be greatly appreciated...

thanks in advance

 

[Msm2]

Whats your set up?

 

[Homez]

hmm some of the parts are still in transit. lol

but in the end i will have:

gigabyte ex-58 extreme

i7 920 - try to get around 3.6ghz

ocz 6gb blade tri-ch ddr3-16000 ram

gtx 280 OC2- soon to be sli

haf932 case

2x 500gb SATA II HD

samsung sn-203

water cooling system

so what do you recommend?

thx for the reply

 

[Msm2]

First I would try some of the PSU calculators that can be found on the net. Corsair do one.

 

[Homez]

cheers ill check it out

 

[rapidman17]

hmm some of the parts are still in transit. lol

but in the end i will have:

gigabyte ex-58 extreme

i7 920 - try to get around 3.6ghz

ocz 6gb blade tri-ch ddr3-16000 ram

gtx 280 OC2- soon to be sli

haf932 case

2x 500gb SATA II HD

samsung sn-203

water cooling system

so what do you recommend?

thx for the reply

quite a system you got going there mate,

I think the Antec is better, it marginally beat a 700w version of the thermaltake.....

http://www.virtual-hideout.net/reviews/Antec_850w_Quattro/index3.shtml

 

[Homez]

just done the calculator and it stated in sli i would need 780w psu but as i currently do not have an sli setup (sometime in the future) i think an 850w psu would be perfect.

 

[Msm2]

See what reviews are about on the 2 PSUs that you are considering.They should help you make your mind up.

 

[Homez]

thx for the reply m8

the only problem is that i read somewhere that components had been changed from the 700w toughpower psu's and the 850w> psu's and i can not seem to find a a good comparison between the the antec and toughpower at 850w

if anyone has tested the or tried the two any help would be majorly appreciated

 

[Msm2]

May be difficult then,have a word with Jim he may know.

 

[Homez]

worst things is both of the psu's have recieved amazing reviews and makes it even hardter to to choose also i do not think they have been compared...

how can i contact jim?

cheers

 

[JN]

I'd go with the Toughpower personally. Why? Mostly because the Quattro has a rather noisy 80mm fan and fewer modular connectors than the Toughpower.

In terms of performance they are both great units.