Which is a better power supply?

Question

Thermaltake TR2 550w @ $97

or

Coolmaster Extreme 650w? @ $97

I know the obvious is their power but why is the price the same?

My system specs

OS : Vista Ultimate

Kingston 1 gb x 2 ram

nVidia 8600GT 512mb

Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33GHz, 2.33GHz

TV Tuner WinFast DTV2000 H

I use my pc for games and image editing (Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3)

and I'm thinking of getting an extra 2gb or 4 gb of ram, but i was told it would be pointless to get a total of 6gb of memory. What do you recommend?

Answer 1

you should go with Coolmaster Extreme 650w.  It should last you longer when there's a blackout, plus it seems like your computer would be using a lot of power.  Also when 650w would leave you space when you upgrade your computer

Answer 2

you must go to a much higher power.Coolmaster Extreme 650w? @ $97

Higher ram memory is better

Answer 3

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as... $49 after rebate, free shipping.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...

I would personally go with the coolermaster simply because, even though they are enough power for what you have now and both are supposedly crossfire supported that is only good on older cards.  They both only have 2 six pin connectors for graphics cards.  I think the newer nvidia cards have an 8-pin connector plus even with the new 4870 graphics card you have to have two 6 pin connectors just for one card, which to me discounts both CPU's from being Crossfire compliant because one would have to use adapters and use 4 of their 4pin connectors comming off of both rails to run another 4000 series graphics card...  Look on your 8600 graphics card and see how many pins your power connection has.  If it is 6 pin you are good...  The thermaltake will work on your system for now if you like it...

Answer 4

coolmaster