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Old 03-22-2004, 11:20 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Antec 480W or Enermax 480W

My Allied 350W died today and I need to purchase another PSU. I'm looking at the Antec TruePower 480W and the Enermax Coolergiant 480W (model: EG485P-VHB SFMA). I would go with Omardeth's recommendation of the Achieve 500W, but I can't find it in stores and I don't purchase anything online.

Antec specs:
+5v: 38A
+12v: 22A
+3.3v: 30A
-5v: 0.5A
-12v: 1.0A
+5vSB: 2.0A

Enermax specs:
+5v: 40A
+12v1: 16A
+12v2: 15A
+3.3v: 34A
-5v: (can't find)
-12v: 0.8A
+5vSB: 2.5A

Which one would you go with?

All comments and suggestions are appreciated.

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Old 03-23-2004, 01:32 AM   #2 (permalink)
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anteck and enermax are both good quality supplies and I have always used the enermax myself
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You really can't go wrong with either one... I'm partial to enermax personally, so if it were me, i'd go with it.

I used a 350 watt enermax on a pretty power hungry system, and it was fine... I eventually replaced it with an enermax 550 cuz my parents generic PSU went out, and I gave them my 350... Both are working great.

IMO, either one is better than a 500 watt achieve.
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Antec, it has more juice at 12v, which is where the CPU, among other things, draws its power, but both are good.
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I'd go with the Antec, because of the +12V rail also. My Allied 400 has 17 amps on the +12V rail. Computers today use more +12v than they used to.
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Why then does enermax divide up the +12v rail? So it doesn't mean it has 31A (+12v1 (+) +12v2)? I'm just a little confused with that one.

Thank you for all your input so far.
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Antec doesn't have more juice on the 12 volt rail... Enermax has two independant 12 volt rails. The nice thing about this is that you can have you rmotherboard and video card using one, and all your fans/drives using the other.
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Ahhh...I see. Thanks for clearing that up Ramon. I think I'll be going for the Enermax then.
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