Help choosing between PSUs.

[johnnakos007]

Hello people,

I can't decide on which PSU to decide, my options are:
Corsair CX 550 (Gray) (67 euro)

Be Quiet Pure Power 11 500 (62 euro)

The CX 450 would be more than enough (and cheaper) for my setup but I wanted my PSU to have at least one extra PCIe cable.

So far from what I read the Corsair uses LLC topology while the Be Quiet uses Active Clamp. I have no idea how they work, only from a thread that explains them I understand that LLC is more efficient and expensive while the other one efficient enough(for 80+ gold) but relatively cheap.

Both are quality since they are tier B with gold letters and both have 5 years warranty.

Is one better than the other or should I just get the cheaper one? 

 

 

 

[Fasauceome]

The CX450M has 2x6+2 connectors, comes in handy. Is that an option for you?

[Chris Pratt]

Honestly, it's a coin toss. The difference in cost isn't even that great. I'd say just go with whichever you like the look of the best, but either will probably be stuck under a PSU shroud. I guess save the 5€.

[johnnakos007]

27 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

The CX450M has 2x6+2 connectors, comes in handy. Is that an option for you?

Yeah, it's an option same price as the Be Quiet. I just disregarded it because people were recommending the CX against the CX-M and in the list it's on Tier C.

 

5 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

Honestly, it's a coin toss. The difference in cost isn't even that great. I'd say just go with whichever you like the look of the best, but either will probably be stuck under a PSU shroud. I guess save the 5€.

The case doesn't even have a window, so yeah looks don't matter. 

[ImperialKnightErrant]

CX 550 OEM is Great Wall, while Be Quiet generally sources from FSP. personally I would prefer FSP a bit more, I believe they are slightly better in terms on general OEM ranking. 

 

All else equal I would take the FSP. 

 

 

[johnnakos007]

I ended up ordering the Pure Power 11. I found a few information in the Cybenetics database.

The Pure power 10 500w has gold rating and A noise rating.
There is also a Pure power 11 700W gold with A+ noise.

I know they are not exactly the same but I assume the pure power 11 500w is an improved pure power 10.

On the other hand the CX units were just a little less efficient and a little more noisy.

All that assuming both are equal in terms of quality and the Be quiet unit is the cheaper of the two.

 

Thanks for your input guys.

 

Here are the reports from the units

http://members.cybenetics.report:5050/d/cybenetics_BZ9_eu.pdf Be quiet! Pure Power 10 500W

http://members.cybenetics.report:5050/d/cybenetics_kV6_eu.pdf Be quiet! Pure Power 11 700W

http://members.cybenetics.report:5050/d/cybenetics_CUj_eu.pdf Corsair CX550

http://members.cybenetics.report:5050/d/cybenetics_GI9_eu.pdf Corsair CX450M

http://members.cybenetics.report:5050/d/cybenetics_i1k_eu.pdf Corsair CX450 (Great Wall)

http://members.cybenetics.report:5050/d/cybenetics_VUm_eu.pdf  Corsair CX450 (CWT)