How save money build your own Pc

[andy01424]

if i could find it on Toms hardware,there was a topic regarding psu cheap or expensive,it mainly comes down to high end graphic cards, its the voltage rail and amp rating on the graphic rail you may get a 650 but its no better than a 450 besides having a higher wattage psu will reduce heat as it wont have to strain to power the card along with everything else ,adding additional fans etc

[meeee]

Nov 14, 2012 10:24:11 GMT alvoram said:

Nov 13, 2012 22:05:42 GMT Ewol said:

#1 reason is cheap psus are usually rated at a power they can't even sustain, lower temperature (good ones are rated at 50C, or in the case of the cheapest chinese psus - lack some safety approvals for a reason beyond that there are still some diifferences, but not necessarily worth the price for the improvement.

Good PSUs rated for higher temperatures usually use longer lasting parts - the parts most likely to die are the capacitors and the fan. I would only use a PSU that has 105C rated capacitors, most the cheap ones use 80C ones that age faster

Experience tells me otherwise, I have only ever bought the cheap higher wattage ones, and in 12 years, I've never had any problems. Maybe that's just a testament to the vendors listed above. I've had to replace a few for other people, in machines bought from large retailers (Time spring to mind, remember them lol) but I could usually attribute that to increased heat around the PSU due to dust build up and lack of maintenance.

I have also replaced several time and also Tiny PSU's over the years, the Tiny one's were always very low a spec running right at the edge of the reccomended operating parameters.

[andyh]

i always build my own and other peoples, a good site to always check for the parts is ukhotdeals as people will post the parts needed.
the best thing at the moment i think that any laptop or desktop will benefit from is an ssd drive. they truly are that much faster.

[andy01424]

Nov 16, 2012 18:59:59 GMT andyh said:

i always build my own and other peoples, a good site to always check for the parts is ukhotdeals as people will post the parts needed.
the best thing at the moment i think that any laptop or desktop will benefit from is an ssd drive. they truly are that much faster.

just dont defrag one!!!!! lol

[meeee]

The first solid storage hard drive I came across was over 12 years ago, where I used to work we had a 40MB one on sale or return, the cost at the time was £1000 booting windows took longer than a normal hard drive needless to say we returned it.

[goofy]

Nov 16, 2012 18:59:59 GMT andyh said:

the best thing at the moment i think that any laptop or desktop will benefit from is an ssd drive. they truly are that much faster.

Yep but they're so damn expensive! I bought my 64gb one from Crucial about a year ago and it was over £100 The prices have dropped since then right enough........ you can get a 256gb SSD for the same money now. Might be time for an upgrade

[lamdac0re]

I've found that my ssd is slighty quicker at boot than my mechanical, but when on the desktop, it seems to fly, currently a sata II device, but changing mainboard & cpu over next two months, so, will maybe see a boost in general speed as I think the sata II on this board is a bit questionable...

[andyh]

just remember in bios to set the ssd in AHCI mode,i forgot on mine,seemed faster but not that quick, then it dawned on me now very much faster. but if you change it after you have installed o/s you will have to reinstal

[nevermore]

Thanks for the info