Thermaltake Toughpower 750 or Corsair TX 750?

[azianai]

go go Corsair!
Seasonic OEM ftw!

[Captain Crunch]

I put my vote in for the corsair too.........but just to mess you up, like rich said you may want to take a look at this review......plus it's sexy!!!! BFG ES-800 Power Supply Review

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by MontanaFX

The Corsair is about £83, the Thermaltake is about £80 and the Antec is about £100.

Your view on Antec surprises me. I always considered them the best and have heard similar views in reviews.

What companies are your favourites?

Antec had a hard time in last 3 years and I've had to do quite a lot of RMA's for Antec PSUs (Used to work in a computer boutique). More SmartPower 2 than anything, but quite a few TruePower and NeoHE too.
I absolutely love the OCZ GameXStream 700W I bought from Paul a while ago. It's a superb power supply, albeit overkill for what I'm running now. Downsides: not modular, many rails over single rail setup.
There's plenty of good power supplies out there, even though they're often all made by the same company in the end.
OCZ, Mushkin, Corsair, SeaSonic, PC Power & Cooling, Silverstone, BFG, Enermax, Tagan, FSP Group, Thermaltake, Antec to only name a few.
You're generally not asking for problems when choosing a power supply from those companies, although some models are/were known to be problematic in certain circumstances.
As long as you get a somewhat "up to date" power supply, in terms of features and connectors, you should be alright.


Talking about 12V rails, there was a trend going on about multiple rails instead of 1 big rail, something about standards backing that up and whatnot but it seems that a lot of companies are going back to the single rail design for their high-end PSUs.

[gvblake22]

Here is a previous discussion about the benefits and drawbacks of the different 12V rail design...

[MontanaFX]

Thank you so much peeps. You really helped me decided and be 100% happy with my decision. The single rail Corsair is the clear winner IYO (In your opinion)

And as a added bonus, the price has dropped overnight to only £66 inc VAT. I dont know why or how, but TBH I dont really care. I am getting a bargain.

I ordered a laptop for my mother yesterday, using the same company that sell the Corsair and recommend it to all UK based, coz their prices are amazing.
Samsung Black R60+ Core2 Duo T5450 1.66GHz 2x1024MB 200GB DVDRW 15.4 INCH Vista HP (NP-R60FY08/SUK)

[Dr. V]

WHOA that laptop is a really good deal...your mom should definitely be happy with both that machine and the price you got it for.

And for what it matters, my vote would've been Corsair all the way.

[screwballl]

Prices are one thing... but it is also the service after the sale that can make or break a company. That is why Newegg is top dog in the US, the others have been hit or miss with their service after the sale.

[MontanaFX]

Originally Posted by [Dr. V]

WHOA that laptop is a really good deal...your mom should definitely be happy with both that machine and the price you got it for.

And for what it matters, my vote would've been Corsair all the way.

I hope she likes it otherwise Christmas will be lean at the MontanaFX household. :santaclaus:

[Jafo]

It took me 3 failed power supplies before I got one to work longer than 3-4 months (RMA'd all). So I'd recommend going with anything other than Thermaltake.

[theburan]

Hmm, i've heard good things about thermaltake, i've got a cheap little 430w unit of theirs that's been good to me. I also have an FSP epsilon 700w (which is pretty much the ocz 700w, if I remember right, and I used a corsair tx750 in the last computer I put together, for a friend, and the corsair was the best. I wish I had a higher end thermaltake to compair it to, but oh well.

Anyways, the tx750 won't do you wrong, lol (isn't it a cwt built unit though? I'll have to double check that... hmmm)