I recently helped my friend build a new gaming rig. The configuration is as follows
Core i5 3450
Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H
Corsair Vengance 2 X 4 GB 1600mhz.
1 TB Seagate 7200 RPM HDD
Antec One Hundred Lite Case
Corsair VS450 PSU.
MSI Radeon 6850 Cyclone Power Edition
When we assembled everything, we found that the system freezes every time we run a graphically intense game. I thought it is an issue with the graphics card, but when I tested it on my system everything works perfectly and Furmark runs properly for over 10 mins, whereas it crashes in less than 2 mins in my friends system. It is not an issue of the CPU or Memory, we ran stress tests with Aida64 and there was no issue. I suspect that it is the power supply, and I searched the internet and found out to my horror that this model is not even listed on Corsair's website. I had spent quite a bit of time in choosing the components carefully but I made a mistake with the power supply. I had assumed that Corsair VS450, being labelled as Builder Series, was similar to CX430 without the 80+ Certification. But, now I find that it is actually cheaply made overpriced model released specifically to fool people in India and China. I am feeling very bad because I had recommend the PSU to my friend as being very good VFM product from a reliable and reputed company. I can try to get the power supply replaced, but I have a bad feeling that the replacement unit will also perform badly. Moreover, my friend plans to get the Radeon 7870 or Geforce 660ti soon and going by Anandtech's bench the system would then consume around 40w more than the 6850 (roughly around 300W for the whole system) and I am not confident now running either of these on the VS450.
My question is what should we do now? Will Corsair replace it with the CX430 which is a much better supply and only a few hundred rupees more if my friend agrees to pay the difference?
Core i5 3450
Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H
Corsair Vengance 2 X 4 GB 1600mhz.
1 TB Seagate 7200 RPM HDD
Antec One Hundred Lite Case
Corsair VS450 PSU.
MSI Radeon 6850 Cyclone Power Edition
When we assembled everything, we found that the system freezes every time we run a graphically intense game. I thought it is an issue with the graphics card, but when I tested it on my system everything works perfectly and Furmark runs properly for over 10 mins, whereas it crashes in less than 2 mins in my friends system. It is not an issue of the CPU or Memory, we ran stress tests with Aida64 and there was no issue. I suspect that it is the power supply, and I searched the internet and found out to my horror that this model is not even listed on Corsair's website. I had spent quite a bit of time in choosing the components carefully but I made a mistake with the power supply. I had assumed that Corsair VS450, being labelled as Builder Series, was similar to CX430 without the 80+ Certification. But, now I find that it is actually cheaply made overpriced model released specifically to fool people in India and China. I am feeling very bad because I had recommend the PSU to my friend as being very good VFM product from a reliable and reputed company. I can try to get the power supply replaced, but I have a bad feeling that the replacement unit will also perform badly. Moreover, my friend plans to get the Radeon 7870 or Geforce 660ti soon and going by Anandtech's bench the system would then consume around 40w more than the 6850 (roughly around 300W for the whole system) and I am not confident now running either of these on the VS450.
My question is what should we do now? Will Corsair replace it with the CX430 which is a much better supply and only a few hundred rupees more if my friend agrees to pay the difference?
