OCZ PowerStream 520/470W, Any good?

[Mariachi]

Hi :D

Im planning to buy one of these PSU's for my new system (A64+X800).
How they cost? Is there a difference between the 470W version and the 520W version? If there is, what is the difference? Also how are they in Overcloking? Im buying it for heavy OC purposes.
And which version do you guys think I should take?

Thank you very much, :)
Roy

[masterofpuppets]

My one should arrive this week hopefully. I will report on it when it arrives.

[Mariachi]

You bought the 520W / 470W one?
Anyway I think i'm getting because we don't have alternatives here in my country.
But i'm waiting for your reports ;)

[masterofpuppets]

Read my sig, I bought the 520.

[Mariachi]

Well, you got it already? how is it? :)

[masterofpuppets]

/me takes some photos and uploads em to his server.

I haven't been playing around much, but it looks nice and has really stable rails. I haven't bothered adjusting them yet though. I will play with em later when I need to. ATM, I am still playing with my intel stock cooler trying to reach that magic 4GhZ. 3.8ghz is now stable with the powerstream. Have tried 3.9 but only prime stable for 20minutes and temperature probs. 4GhZ has been attemped but I had to stop immedeatly due to 60C temps where the thermal spec is 62.7 on the cpu, so that was a bit scary. But it's fine at 3.7 with no temp probs and prime stable for 12hours.

[Sphinx]

also i'd like to have one of 520! masterofpuppets how much did you pay for your one?

[masterofpuppets]

It's about £100 from chillblast.com.

[Sphinx]

Nice! i'll take one of them!

[FUGGER]

The OCZ powerstream is a very nice PSU, it would be my top choice in buying a new PSU.

[Mariachi]

Ordered! :D
Should be in my hands next week...

[MeltedDuron]

check out the review on www.moddin.net ! this thing 0wnzerz!!!!!

[Mariachi]

Is it safe to adjust the pots while the PSU is on? so I can measure it? Thanks :D

[masterofpuppets]

Read the manual.

[aldamon]

The 520W is $127 shipped at Newegg. I couldn't resist.

[aldamon]

I got the PowerStream 520W yesterday. It's a beautiful unit. I needed to adjust the rails on my old Fortron 300W to get them stable under load. This thing was stable out of the box.

I have a quick question though. I kept the rails on my Fortron 300W at spec under load because it seemed to strain in those conditions. With the OCZ unit, would there be any benefit to bumping up the rails a bit? I'm thinking 12.6/3.6/5.5 or so.

[Mariachi]

Maybe, you should try it. Your GPU would love 12.5V!

[trans am]

I kicked the 12v rail up on my 520 yesterday. when i booted 1st time with it, it was around 11.6 and 2.5ghz was unable to post. I adjusted the rail a little bit over and now I'm stable at 257x10 amd64 mobile 3200 claw. That thing is amazing! It weighs a ton too!

[Rodzilla]

I got a 520....:slobber: :slobber: :slobber: :slobber:

I LOVE IT!

Haven't messed with more OC'ing... I'll post results after the work week is out and I have time to play! Yip EEEEEEE!!!