Power supplies.

So I'm on a 'fairly' tight budget of $90 or below.

I bought a CX 500 and it came 'whiney squealy' soon as I plugged it up and hit the on switch on it it went WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE like and old TV set with 'snow' on it and no picture. ("coil whine" ?)

Anyway, so I RMAed it.. did the same thing on the replacement and asked for a refund.

Now I'm here looking for another one..

I thought of http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817207013 , but is that going to be a quality one as well as about the same price as the refund ?

I've had a 400 watt builder series (The first one) for 2 years on this machine and it didn't make a squealing, or have any issues at all with it, I guess corsair got cheap with builder series after it ?

I also put a bestec 300 watt on the machine (The scrap one from this dell machine after replacing it with the corsair 400 watt ) , but with a nVidia 8300 GS PCIe card instead of the 'gaming card' in this one (so it doesn't blow up) , and it makes no squealing but only has a 4 pin CPU plugin unlike the corsairs that came so I'm assuming it's not a "Short" in the new machine that caused the new corsair to whine/moan/squeal ?

Edit: the stuff I'll be powering is: Athlon II X4 (maybe phenom II X6 later? ), 2 sticks of DDR3 (maybe 4 later?) , 4670 (maybe 6770 or GTX 560 later?) , WD black SATA hard drive, SATA burner, USB flash drive, keyboard/mouse.

 

Ya, quite a few complaints about the CX500W whining on the 'net. Try a CX600 which is powering my 2600K machine at %100 load 24/7 without a whimper or a TX750W but that would be overkill for you ATM.

Another I love is the Antec, a 550W should be good enough as long as you don't SLI. If you do then a 750W would be nice. Corsair TX750W would be a good choice too as it powers my i7 930 24/7 and you guessed it at %100 load. I like both brands, neither has given me any headache.

 

I don't really wanna try a CX again.

The TX series is a little pricey.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371016 seems reasonable if it'll do it's job.

 

Ya, I'd be antsy too after being burnt twice by the CX. I've used the 500W version of the Antec Earthwatts series powering a Q6600 and a pair of 9800GT'S. You should be good to go. BTW, the XFX that you posted looks good too, it's just that I've never used them yet.

 

I think I'll try the http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371016 then. Does the triple 12V rails many anything vs 1 big one ?

 

In this case not really, as long as you have enough amps to power your video card on one or two rails then you're fine. I do have to brush up on rails though. I prefer one big rail, nothing to figure out.

 

Well the amps are only 22A. That'd easy run the 4670, but I don't know about anything else ?