Need help finding a cheap 450W+ PSU that won't burn my house down here in Canada

[Fake]

I simply can't find any for a decent price

[Bombastinator]

My understandingstanding is cheap PSU and not burn your house down are a bit mutually exclusive.  How about the least expensive 450/500w that is safe to use?  (I’m thinking like at least USA$65

[Hinjima]

If you can't find any 450w for a decent price then maybe you need to up the budget a bit?
Dont cheap out on PSUs. As writted above, 65 bucks would get you a nice 450-550w PSU.

[Bombastinator]

Go non or semi modular, don’t go BELOW bronze but aside from that the metal color has NOTHING to do with quality, except maybe platinum which you shouldn’t see in your price range.  Any brand can have crap, there are a few brands who have never produced anything that WASNT crap but surprisingly few *cough,diablotec, cough* my memory is evga and Corsair both had stuff in that range, seasonic and superflower too.

 

the definition of “good” with PSUs is safety not features.  Avoid rgb unless you reallly really want it and then add $20 to. That number.  Rgb costs and does basically nothing performance wise.  A long warranty is nice.  Anything over 5 years perhaps.

Edited June 7, 2023 by Bombastinator

[Fake]

2 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Go non or semi modular, don’t go BELOW bronze but aside from that the metal color has NOTHING to do with quality, except maybe platinum which you shouldn’t see in your price range.  Any brand can have crap, there are a few brands who have never produced anything that WASNT crap but surprisingly few *cough,diablotec, cough*

I don't exactly care about efficiency so does the rating really matter?

11 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

My understandingstanding is cheap PSU and not burn your house down are a bit mutually exclusive.  How about the least expensive 450/500w that is safe to use?  (I’m thinking like at least USA$65

8 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

If you can't find any 450w for a decent price then maybe you need to up the budget a bit?
Dont cheap out on PSUs. As writted above, 65 bucks would get you a nice 450-550w PSU.

around 60$ CAD if possible, definitely under 100$ CAD

[Bombastinator]

80+ white (no metal color) often means cheap, but other than that no.  There are even some decent 80+ white ones.  Fewer though. You’re likely to see white bronze gold and platinum.  Silver PSUs more or less don’t get made anymore.

[Hinjima]

14 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Go non or semi modular, don’t go BELOW bronze but aside from that the metal color has NOTHING to do with quality, except maybe platinum which you shouldn’t see in your price range.  Any brand can have crap, there are a few brands who have never produced anything that WASNT crap but surprisingly few *cough,diablotec, cough* my memory is evga and Corsair both had stuff in that range, seasonic and superflower too.

 

the definition of “good” with PSUs is safety not features.  Avoid rgb unless you reallly really want it and then add $20 to. That number.  Rgb costs and does basically nothing performance wise.  A long warranty is nice.  Anything over 5 years perhaps.

I really really want a SuperFlower PSU just to have said that I have had one, they are very hard to find here in Norway however and the ones that you can get are at 350 dollars for an 850w... and 600 dollars for the 1600w..

[Bombastinator]

17 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

I really really want a SuperFlower PSU just to have said that I have had one, they are very hard to find here in Norway however and the ones that you can get are at 350 dollars for an 850w... and 600 dollars for the 1600w..

Superflower makes PSUs for companies that do not make their own so a lot of other brands may be actually superflower.  It’s random though.

[Hinjima]

Just now, Bombastinator said:

Superflower makes PSUs for companies that do not make their own so a lot of other brands may be actually superflower.  It’s random though.

Oh most definitely!  I just want a 'genuine' one. I love SuperFlower, they make so many good PSU's for other brands too and it seems like most people haven't even heard of Superflower.  Even calling them sketchy when someone has a SuperFlower PSU in their PcPartpicker list.  I know they made a few EVGA and Corsair PSU's.

[Spotty]

For $60 CAD there's not a whole lot of options to choose from. 

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/Wbhj4D/thermaltake-smart-500w-80-certified-atx-power-supply-ps-spd-0500npcwus-w

 

What's it for anyway? System specs?

 

12 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

Oh most definitely!  I just want a 'genuine' one. I love SuperFlower, they make so many good PSU's for other brands too and it seems like most people haven't even heard of Superflower.  Even calling them sketchy when someone has a SuperFlower PSU in their PcPartpicker list.  I know they made a few EVGA and Corsair PSU's.

Super Flower has not made any power supplies for Corsair as far as I can recall. 

[Hinjima]

11 minutes ago, Spotty said:

 

Super Flower has not made any power supplies for Corsair as far as I can recall. 

I might have gotten that mixed up, there are so many brands and numbers that my brain sometimes get confused( Thanks AMD for naming both your CPU and GPU 7600 )  Its also 4AM here and I should be sleeping

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, Hinjima said:

I might have gotten that mixed up, there are so many brands and numbers that my brain sometimes get confused( Thanks AMD for naming both your CPU and GPU 7600 )  Its also 4AM here and I should be sleeping

So sleep.  It’s not like this is some super fast moving technology that will be totally different tomorrow.

[SorryBella]

1 hour ago, Hinjima said:

I might have gotten that mixed up, there are so many brands and numbers that my brain sometimes get confused( Thanks AMD for naming both your CPU and GPU 7600 )  Its also 4AM here and I should be sleeping

Its Great Wall. 

[Fake]

2 hours ago, Spotty said:

For $60 CAD there's not a whole lot of options to choose from. 

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/Wbhj4D/thermaltake-smart-500w-80-certified-atx-power-supply-ps-spd-0500npcwus-w

 

What's it for anyway? System specs?

 

Super Flower has not made any power supplies for Corsair as far as I can recall. 

First PC that needs one: i7 3770 GTX 1060 6GB 16GB of RAM and 4 hard drives

Second PC that needs one: e5 2689 0 GTX 970 64 GB of ECC RAM and 4 hard drives

[Bombastinator]

9 minutes ago, Fake said:

First PC that needs one: i7 3770 GTX 1060 6GB 16GB of RAM and 4 hard drives

Second PC that needs one: e5 2689 0 GTX 970 64 GB of ECC RAM and 4 hard drives

‘.and..?

[Fake]

17 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

‘.and..?

and what? That's the PC's specs, a reply to "What's it for anyway? System specs?"

[doubleflower]

On 6/7/2023 at 11:54 AM, Fake said:

First PC that needs one: i7 3770 GTX 1060 6GB 16GB of RAM and 4 hard drives

Second PC that needs one: e5 2689 0 GTX 970 64 GB of ECC RAM and 4 hard drives

Looking through the PCPartPicker list the options are mostly terrible, and the best of the lot being the Thermaltake Smart which is no better than those generic, no-name PSUs of dubious quality

 

This one is certainly better though, for 75CAD:

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/tdGnTW/cooler-master-mwe-bronze-v2-500-w-80-bronze-certified-atx-power-supply-mpe-5001-acaab-us

 

If you are willing to spend around 80CAD this one is also a good choice:

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/kPPgXL/thermaltake-smart-bm2-650-w-80-bronze-certified-semi-modular-atx-power-supply-ps-spd-0650mnfabu-1

 

 

[Bombastinator]

21 hours ago, Fake said:

and what? That's the PC's specs, a reply to "What's it for anyway? System specs?"

Was a mispost or the data changed.  I think.  I don’t remember.  It’s the only thing that makes sense though. I vaguely recall that post not being specs originally.  Was an “it’s ok because (something irrelevant)” or something.