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TipsyMacScotchslurpen
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Jun 27, 2018
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If I have learned anything over the years building my own PCs, it's that the PSU is the single most important part of a computer to "get right." The one time I bought a cheap off-brand PSU from the local computer repair shop, I later had trouble with hard drives dying one after the other (I had four 1TB drives in a software RAID0+1/RAID10 arrangement) every couple of months. It took me a while to realize that it might be my PSU, but after upgrading to a Seasonic Platinum SP 760-XP2 (an older 760W 80PLUS Platinum rated Seasonic PSU) my hard drives stopped dying, and all my storage components (and evertything else for that matter) since then have been healthy for the past 4 years.
I am now a loyal Seasonic customer, and as long as they remain a company dedicated to producing quality equipment, I will spend whatever it takes to make sure that my PSU is made by them. There is no point in putting the fastest available SSDs, SLI Nvidia X80 GPUs, high end RAM, an overclockable gaming-related motherboard, and an expensive Intel CPU in a box and then cheaping out on your PSU.
The PSU is the component of your PC most likely to damage other components upon failure, and that is also true of a Seasonic power supply. So, pick a brand you can trust to be the least likely to fail. For me, that brand is Seasonic.
P.S. - XVGA is actually another such brand, but only because they often rebrand Seasonic PSUs.
Jun 27, 2018
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