need psu help

[keatond27]

Hi im new to the p building world and i need help chosing a new power supply. i would like it no be around 40$. i will only go up to 42$. it would need to be from 400-500W. ive looked around and everything i saw had a bad review. if i can i would like it to be semi modular as well. if you guys can help that would be great. Thanks!

[Stefan Payne]

Components to power?

 

[keatond27]

thgis is the pc part picker i have right now https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pDkJ8Y thats what i need to power

[r2724r16]

A CX450M is plenty for you. 

[keatond27]

2 minutes ago, Rasbir Singh said:

A CX450M is plenty for you. 

i heard those psus are unreliable and catch fire is that true

[STRMfrmXMN]

Just now, keatond27 said:

i heard those psus are unreliable and catch fire is that true

No

[Guest]

7 hours ago, keatond27 said:

i heard those psus are unreliable and catch fire is that true

Where'd you hear that from?

[keatond27]

7 hours ago, jonnyGURU said:

Where'd you hear that from?

a few youtube videos

[Guest]

17 hours ago, keatond27 said:

a few youtube videos

Oh.. From end users that had problems, but not from anyone that actually knows anything about power supplies, I'm sure.

 

It's like Newegg or Amazon reviews.  The more you sell, the lower your score because people hardly ever come back to review a product that works as expected, but you better believe they're going to bitch and moan when it fails.

 

[keatond27]

5 hours ago, jonnyGURU said:

Oh.. From end users that had problems, but not from anyone that actually knows anything about power supplies, I'm sure.

 

It's like Newegg or Amazon reviews.  The more you sell, the lower your score because people hardly ever come back to review a product that works as expected, but you better believe they're going to bitch and moan when it fails.

 

thats true ive never thought of it that way but now that i think of it i do that. 

[LienusLateTips]

On 28/03/2018 at 12:18 PM, keatond27 said:

a few youtube videos

Probably talking about old CX that was actually pretty terrible, but the new CX is a very good product

[keatond27]

14 hours ago, JDE said:

Probably talking about old CX that was actually pretty terrible, but the new CX is a very good product

what model was bad? i heard it was the cx450m 2015

[OrionFOTL]

None of them were bad. The old models even had OTP and low ripple. But still, the 430W/500W/600W models were group regulated, so they couldn't be very good compared to more advanced units. The 450W/550W/650W units use DC-DC converters and fit into modern computers much better.

[LienusLateTips]

8 hours ago, keatond27 said:

what model was bad? i heard it was the cx450m 2015

The old ones were 2012 and had a green label, ending in x30 or x00. 

 

Where in hell did you hear the CX450M was bad? I need to see right now.

[keatond27]

11 hours ago, JDE said:

The old ones were 2012 and had a green label, ending in x30 or x00. 

 

Where in hell did you hear the CX450M was bad? I need to see right now.

this is the link to the youtube video that i saw on the cx450m that said it caught fire

 

 

[OrionFOTL]

Where did it catch fire? Does he even explain what happened with his unit at all? I couldn't catch any actual info from all the mumbling and "umm"s.

 

Also, that's not even CX450M. Did you watch the video? 30 seconds in it shows the side label, it says CX600M.