Hi

what are these power supplies like ?? thinking about getting one here is a link to the one im looking at its the 550 watt version.

http://www.qtec.info/products/product.htm?artnr=13025

Thanks for any help

Cheers

Matt

they are cheap compared to a more well known ones which has put me off when i've seen them at comp fairs.If you leave your pc on all night or something get a power supply that has got a cut out switch on it incase something goes wrong with it,not sure if these have,would be nasty to find a fried comp when you wake up one morning.

year their nice little psu's for the cash good for overclocking and for overall system cooling (2 fans)

they will drop your temb by 5c

i'll second that, been running mine 24/7 for about 8 months - no problems, i even modded my fans to run at 7v, still don't get hot and is very quiet.

grea value for money me thinks ;)

thanks for the info guys

i have the bought the enermax one now though

cheers

Matt

Originally posted by littlejack
i'll second that, been running mine 24/7 for about 8 months - no problems, i even modded my fans to run at 7v, still don't get hot and is very quiet.

grea value for money me thinks ;)

hi ive been thinking of doing the same thing!!

how did you lower the voltage, as i was just going to swap the fans?

I bought a simple 3 pin regulator ic from an electronics store, an 8v 1a ic, so really there not 7v but 8v. if u wanted to do 7v, just rewire them inside so that the red fan wire goes to the one of the yellow output wires +12v, and the black fan wire goes to the red output wire +5v, this will give you 7v without requiring any parts.

As always - be careful inside them psu's ;)

HTH.

thanks m8 might try that how quite is it?

It really is quite a lot quieter, i only did it because i only have one other fan, and thats on my radiator (water cooled), and the noise seemed to loud, but now, with the water cooling and stuff, i think the noisiest part of my system is the HDD's! that is until the cheapo 54x cd-rom kicks in - that thing sounds like a bloomin jet engine.

The q-tec i purchased was way over powered for a system with 1 fan, (550w) and so it's never under any presure, if it was say a 300w then it would probably run hotter (run close to max output) and so i wouldn't of bothered.
It costs next to nothin so give it a go (asuming you know the dangers of being inside a psu), just keep an eye on the psu after, if the air coming out is considerably hotter than before, it's probably not cooling enough.