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I just ordered a $450 power supply.
It's a PC Power&Cooling Turbo-Cool 1200.


(I'm upgrading from a PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750,bought in December 2006-which still works ok,even 6 1/2 years later.)

I have a new Cooler Master Storm Trooper full-tower case,which necessitated my getting the new PSU.. as I'm running out of good connections on my Silencer 750.(The power plugs are wearing out).

(2 optical drives,6 hard drives + 1 Sandisk caching SSD, EVGA GTX 480 videocard).

Should be fun..although I'm a little worried about my mom's reaction to my spending so much on a PSU.

She's got every right to be pissed.....unless your running dual processors (not dual core but actually two physical processors) and Quad SLI your just ridiculous.

gonna jump start your truck with it or something?

Don't tempt me to try jump starting my mom's Subaru Forester with my new Turbo-Cool 1200..

To quote Frankenstein: "IT'S ALIVE..."

New Turbo-Cool 1200 is up and working better than ever.

(So many cables... I almost didn't know what to do with them all..)

Surprisingly quiet,considering it's a 1200W power supply with a 80 mm Delta 5,000 RPM fan.

PCP&C are awesome, I have a turbo-cool 500W that is 11 years old, still in use on my old recycled-parts NAS


If you have a precision screwdriver set, or an awl / hole punch, you could use that to "re-crimp" the connectors, have had to do that several times on a few PSUs.

Dead PSUs are a good source of connectors, for the NAS above I had to use my handy Crimp tool set to add several HDD connectors (there are 12 PATA 200Gb HDDs in raidZ2 lol)

I remember the day I brought home my brand new spiffy AX1200....thought I was going too far.....but meh knowing Ive got TONS of headrooom for future upgrades is nice.....don't feel bad going to a 1,200 PSU....and honestly you made a fine choice with the PCP&C unit, I've still got a Silencer 750 in a system, just as old as yours and still working fine to this day.