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It's some superflower model. I would maybe it new, they are usually super reliable, but not second-hand. You never know what you are getting and a dodgy psu could destroy your system

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Hello everyone.

I have a cheap 500W Chinese power supply that I got with my case. The game I spend most of my time playing is CSGO, but recently I played Deus Ex: Human Revoluton, and Splinter Cell: Blacklist. My PSU doesn't get that hot to the touch at all when playing CSGO, but on the other 2 mentioned games, it gets really hot! Being a cheap Chinese PSU, I don't trust it not to pull my other hardware down with it when it dies. I have 4 GB of ram, HD 6850 GPU, and A6-6400K CPU. It powers my GPU with 2 molexes'. I was looking around the internet for a better cheap solution, and I found this: http://www.limundo.com/kupovina/Racunari-i-oprema/Komponente/Napajanja/modularno-napajanje-super-flower-sa-svetlecim-kulerom/38148057

 

Its in Serbian, so I'm gonna sum it up for you. The only thing that the seller says is that it has a LED lit fan, its 500W, and its modular. He says the the Manufacturer is called Flower. It is a used PSU, and the seller has 163 ratings, out of which 100% are positive. The PSU is on an auction that will be over in 3 hours and 50 minutes.

Can anyone tell me what PSU it is exactly, and if its any good and worth buying. Right now its 1999 RSD which is about $20. If you can't find your way around the website, here are the posted pictures: originalslika_modularno-napajanje-super-originalslika_modularno-napajanje-super-slikamodularno-napajanje-super-flower-sa

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they always get hot, while it works it works.

 

 

 

It's super flower, top 2 power supply manufacturer in the world. I can see it on the fan.

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It's some superflower model. I would maybe it new, they are usually super reliable, but not second-hand. You never know what you are getting and a dodgy psu could destroy your system

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Super Flower is one of the best manufacturer of PSUs.

However, isn't perhaps only the fan branded as such?

 

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Well 20$ might be a reasonable price for thus PSU, but you migth be better off spending more for a more safety one.

The PSU is one of the most important part of the system. If it fails you can probably throw avaw the entire system.

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Well 20$ might be a reasonable price for thus PSU, but you migth be better off spending more for a more safety one.

The PSU is one of the most important part of the system. If it fails you can probably throw avaw the entire system.

 

 

It's some superflower model. I would maybe it new, they are usually super reliable, but not second-hand. You never know what you are getting and a dodgy psu could destroy your system

Yeah, the destroying the system part is what worries me. I'm trying to find a PSU that has safeties in place to prevent it from destroying anything else but itself when it fails. If this one can do that, than I'm good with it. But the problem is that the seller didn't write what the model name is :|

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I would never buy a second hand PSU even if it's Superflower

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