Good PSU, from my experience. It is not super-quiet with the 80mm fan, but it is quieter than most video card fans anyway. Somewhat limited connectors, however.

my psu just died on me today after 2 years..nice timing on this one. my question is, will this be enough to power a 2 year old radeon x850?

Very stable PSU. Yes it will power a X850

I may not be the best Power unit, but at this price who cares?

This power is actually can only deliver 350 W power at low efficiency. I will pass.

I have this PSU. It's been going strong for over 3 years.
Currently it's in a friends DELL 8400 Pentium 4 3.0Ghz who's DELL PSU died. He was able to add a 8600 GTS too since this PSU has a PCI-E connector.

I also have this model PSU in a DELL 2400 for over 2 years for the same reason.

DELL PSU's are junk.

#5, 80% efficiency is much better than many others'!

#7 Where you got the number 80% ?- the manufacture spec mentioned Efficiency > = 65%. This is old ATX power design with single 12 rails and no PFC - they add SATA and other connectors to make it work with current system. Not worth consideration....

So this power supply only comes with one fan ? Where's a good place to get quality power supplies?

I have a TT 430W PSU very similar to this one. Although it's a nice deal for the price, this PSU is poor on the +12V line (newegg specs say +12V@18A) which limits gaming and other high performance uses. Underpowering the 12V line seems to be a consistent feature on Thermaltake PSUs which otherwise appear to be well designed and built.

This is not a "High performance" unit. What this is a good inexpensive PS for a non-gaming machine. If you want a PS for high performance uses get something in the 550-750W range or even higher.

Agreed, #11. People who want a high performing unit shouldn't be spending $11 on a PSU.

I usually steer clear of super budget power supplies but this is actually a very decent one.

Check out the great anandtech.com article here:
http://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.aspx?i=3413

You DON'T need a big power supply. I currently have a 600w beast in my case, but only because I bought it for something like $20 via rebate. Used a Kill-a-Watt meter the other night. Running Prime95, heavily overclocked AMD dual core, 6 hard drives--230w total, or maybe 185w not counting PS consumption. IOW a 300w supply would be just fine for my system.

#13 Sure we don't need that much power to driver my system. But this power supply can do at max 350 watt and highest effiency is only 69%. almost 1/3 of power is wasted by the power supply. So no matter power big or small - we should only get high power effiency PSUs and let these energy wasting PSU out of market...

If a better PSU costs twice as much, owners of lower-end systems for which this is suited would have to run a system for over 6,000 hours just to recoup the cost in power. If someone is concerned about the cost of power, they'll be turning the system off when not using it so that will be several years time to recoup any savings.

A better reason to get a higher quality PSU is that it'll have a longer expected lifespan, ideally a PSU should last as long as the rest of the system.

Back in '96 or so, I was pulling power supplies out of old 386's to put in 486's that had their power supplies crap out. Why? Originally PC power supplies were built to last 10 years. The industry quickly found out no one would be keeping a PC that long , so by the time the 486's came out, you got 2 years or so out of them.

Oh hey, one small problem. When your PSU dies, are you really going to wait around for UPS to deliver this? No. That's why I paid $40 today at Fry's for one that's not as good.