If it was for yourself, the bronze would do perfectly fine. Since you are buying one for your son, go on pamper him and buy a platinum PS.

xfx RMA is awful, took me about 6 months to get a replacement PSU.

one of the 850watt ones, was an expensive one. took about 3 months to accept the responsibility to replace it.

Yes, thanks for sharing. I've seen that one and it is also cheap. I like EVGA and got G2 in one of my builds it's completely different class but 3 times the cost.

Unfortunately this particular model isn't made to the same standard you get form XFX at least according to Tom's Hardware. XFX is a tier 2 psu and should be really well made so it's a bummer that yours gave you problems. It is poor from XFX I admit.

corsair are the best for customer service, you only need to decide which quality you need

got this a few months back from ebuyer HOT...............using it for AMD HTPC

Ive recently bought a bog standard build I5 pc with 960 gfx card...looking to swap out the mobo (a better one with Raid controllers etc) and stick in a 970 (or equivelent), and have one ssd and two hds....would this handle it or would I need something with a bigger output?

they sell rubbish too but I was talking about customer service and quality is on average also related to the amount of money we want to spend. Anyway, that was bad luck I think, the h100i is a good product and if you have requested an rma you can see of fast they are. we got 2x h100 and 2xh110 in the family and they are really great and no leaks at all. I found that the h110 fans do suffer from a little rattling when used from inside to push air out at higher speeds. They sent the latest replacements fans for free without making any sort of arguments at all.

Yeah they weren't that great for me either. I had send the item to somewhere overseas like Norway and then when they replaced the item they sent one that was a lower spec. so I had to return the item again and wait again for them to send me a correct item. It was a lot of hassle.

I don't know if they have changed now though, this was a couple of years ago now.

it is misleading to say that this is sli NVidia certified, only 1 connector, in sli you need 4 to start with and also to be NVidia sli certified needs to be at least a 650w, AMD uses a different criteria. In theory this is not even good for 1 gpu which usually got 2 connectors. Still not that very sure why people insists to suggest that lower power output are good for gaming. They are not designed for that even so in theory can be used for that purpose. With only a very little more there is plenty out there to be used for the right purpose apart from the fact that you get all the right cabling already build for the purpose of what it suppose to be used for. PSU is the most important choice to be made in a system and also the cheapest even so you might buy the most expensive one if you think that will be used on the next and then the next system and so on until it breaks of course, might not if of a good quality. PSU is the only thing that will virtually does not need to be changed when you upgrade system, get the right one then because it will work a lot cheaper at the end

Just an comment for anyone considering ordering this. I've ended up paying £31.99 (Amazon) with next day delivery. It came without the power cord :disappointed: quite a few reviews say the same. 5 minutes on chat with Amazon and had £8 refunded so it worked out only £23.99.

There's no guarantee they'd do the same to you but they haven't changed the description (told them a week or so ago) so potentially Tier 2 psu for £24 if you have your own power lead :smiley: