Ost

[Berne]

Hi,
Im considering a power supply from Corasir which has Hitachi and OST caps, what sort of rep do they have?

Berne

[370forlife]

Re: Ost

Sounds like a CX400. As long as they are adequately cooled OST can do fine in a psu.

Hitachi is known good.

[Berne]

Re: Ost

Hi,
Yes correct first time the CX400, Imnew to this what should I do to ensure adequate cooling? I attempted my first recap of my 2004 machine with Panasonic Caps and fingers crossed two months later the pc runs better than it ever did.

This led me to search the net for power supplies which use Panasonic Caps but it came up blank ( any ideas )? , lastly do pc buffs build their own supplies and what kind of money would a 500W cost to build....Im assuming you can buy the board and screw it to a prebuilt metal box , wire up the cables ( could be techy ) and thats it?

Again when time permits, and oh, appreciate the quick reply.

Berne

[370forlife]

Re: Ost

Power supplies are usually designed by college graduate electrical engineers. Pretty complex things.

The corsair adequately cools itself. There is not much in the way of the caps and fan, so plenty of air moves over them.

I don't know of many or any psu manufactures that use Panasonic (other than lite-on). Basically all corsairs except the CX400 use UCC.

[Berne]

Re: Ost

Hi 370forlife,
I think its good value the CX and my sys is quite small only requires 250W maxed out, so I got upgrade power if required. I saw some 40$ supplies and thought wow Ill go there but a little further reading has I think paid off.

Many thanks for your replies and I wish you good luck.

Bernard ( in Ireland )

[Agent24]

Re: Ost

I have a Corsair 400CX powering a Socket 754 Sempron 2800+ with Radeon 9600XT

Works fine and the system doesn't randomly lock up any more as it did with the old PSU...

[c_hegge]

Re: Ost

Although they can be OK in PSUs if adequately cooled, on motherboards they are Only Some Trash

[Scenic]

Re: Ost

^ indeed.
the OSTs in my Antec Neopower/NeoHE 430W (Seasonic OEM) are still perfectly fine after nearly 2years daily use powering my overclocked Core 2 Quad.
allthough i'm probably going to replace them the next time i open it up to clean it..i mean.. i'm in there anyways.. so why not? better safe than sorry

[mockingbird]

Re: Ost

I have had far more success with OST in PSUs than with Teapo.

[seanc]

Re: Ost

Meh, I rip them out and replace with Panasonic.
Had them fail in two Antec PSUs, so the third is being done for the hell of it.