Seasonic makes some of the best power supplies on the market, and there are a ton of rebranded Seasonic power supplies. If a power supply is a rebranded Seasonic unit, then you can safely say it's a high quality unit, so here is a list of Seasonic built units.
Antec
Earthwatts EA380
Earthwatts EA430 (old model)
Earthwatts EA500 (old model)
EcoPower 380W
High Current Gamer 400
High Current Gamer 520
High Current Gamer 620
NeoHE
NeoPower 430
NeoPower 500
NeoPower 550
NeoPower 650
Neo Eco
True Power Trio
True Power New
Arctic Cooling
Fusion Series
Corsair
CX 400
VX 450
TX 650
TX 650 v2
TX 750 v2
TX 850 v2
HX 450
HX 520
HX 620
HX 650
AX 650
AX 750
AX 850
Highscreen
SSG Series
PC Power & Cooling
Silencer Series
Seasonic
All their power supplies are made by themselves.
Silverpower
SP-SS400
SP-SS500
SP-SS650
XFX
Black Edition Series
Core Edition Series
XXX Edition Series
There are other good PSU OEMs out there like for example Enhance and CWT, but if you get one of the units I have listed above then you're pretty much guaranteed to get a very high quality and good unit.
If I am missing some unit(s) then please let me know so I can add it to the list.
My High Current Gamer 520 just died two days ago, now I don't know who to trust anymore :(
ReplyDeleteWell just because it is manufactured by Seasonic doesn't mean every single unit will be flawless. You probably just had some bad luck.
DeleteThe High Current Gamer 520 has, according to statistics, only a ~1.89% failure rate within the first year.
so then i was just unlucky, still what would be a good non-seasonic alternative?
ReplyDeleteDoesn't the Antec High Current Gamer 520 have like a 6 year warranty? You could try to get it replaced. If not then I still recommend one of the PSUs on this list. Other good manufacturers are Cougar, Enhance, Flextronics, Channel Well, Sirtec, Impervio and a few other make good PSUs which often get rebranded. The problem with these is that while a lot of them might be good, not all of them are. For example, Channel Well makes some really good ones, but some of their low end PSUs aren't anything special.
DeleteIt's best to just go with Seasonic. XFX units are usually very reasonably priced for what you get, especially if you take the mail in rebate which you often get from newegg on XFX PSUs.