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BFG Tech BFGR550WGSPSU 550-Watt Power Supply

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This is a re-labeled Huntkey 550W power supply. This PSU has been tested by numerous websites and it seems that they explode when max wattage is drawn. Mine failed when my PC was upgraded to a 470GTX and it started drawing close to 550. I was lucky to get it out of my build before it did too much damage. Pretty sure it messed up one of my DIMM slots too. Get another brand. BFG doesn't manufacture PSU's, they buy crappy ones from China, and put their sticker on it.

BFG's response to me about not getting back to me on a video card problem i had check out this letter from them before you buy a bfg product

Sunday, August 22, 2010 3:25 PM

MY NAME WAS HERE,

BFG is in the process of business liquidation, thus there are no replacement cards
or repair facilities available. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.

Thank you,
Seth Z
BFG Support

I GOT 2 OF THESE FROM A DEAL OF BFG FROM BUYING MY 2 BFG 9800GT OCX VID CARDS!!!! I HAVE BUILT NUMUROUS PC's AND BFG GOT MY VOTES!!!!
I paid only $95.97 for 2x of these when they first came out a few months back!!!! I sold one for list price off here to a buddy-aquaintance and that paid 4 mine :) !!!!! They have all the basic connections you will need and have served my 2 midlevel gamin rigs i built really well!! Never Overheated and are not loud at all when playin after 4+ hours n machine gets a lil warm!!! I'll post specs on both machins below!! Even though the MoBo now isn't capable of SLi...it nice to know we are capable later on!!!!

Machine No. 1 (Mine 3rd machine owned 4 built 4 less then $280)
MSI 945GCM478-L
3.4 Prescott 1mb/800FSB (DualCore Center on MoBo makes it *think* it DualCore CPU :0 )
4gb DDR2 667
Zotac 8800GT 1gb PCIe
20x DVD-RW
6x Blu-Ray
160gb Toschiba MAIN IDE (DualBOOT 60gb XP Pro/88gb Vista Ultimate)
300gb Seagate XTRA SATA
VISTA SCORE OVERALL 4.7 (CPU 4.7, RAM 5.8, Vid 5.9, Aero 5.9, Main HD 5.7)
GAMING @ 1600x1200 HIGH on most games ULTRA on few
GAMING @ 1280x1024 ULTRA no Prob usually!!

Machine No. 2 (Buddy's)
MSI 945GCM478-L
3.2 Prescott 1mb/800FSB (same ting as ubuv)
4gb DDR2 667
Sparkle 8600GT 1gb PCIe
22x DVD-RW
52x CD-RW
80gb Western Digital MAIN IDE (DualBOOT 34gb XP Pro/40gb Vista Ultimate)
500gb SATA (unknown)
VISTA SCORE OVERALL 4.5 (CPU 4.5, RAM 5.8, Vid 5.8, Aero 5.5, Main HD 5.2)
GAMING @ 1600x1200 HIGH on some games ULTRA pretty slow
GAMING @ 1280x1024 HIGH no Prob usually!!

I ordered this as a cost effective power supply. This has a number of awesome features for the price. This is powering a I945G chipset board with E5200 Pentium D, Radeon 3870, Audigy sound blaster, WD cavier 500 GB, 3 GB Ram, and a DVD/CD Writer along with severa usb periphials. This is all an average person needs for their computer and it is very quiet and very well put together. This also contains no warrenty seal so you can check out the internal components without breaking the warrenty. I recommend this to anyone.

I bought this with a evga 9600gt KO edition, it works fantastic and I have no issues. I have it running Phenom 9680, 4gb ram, 9600gt, and a blue ray drive. Not to much but not shabby! I'm going to give it a SLI chance if and see how it hold up if not ill upgrade but a wonderful card for the money!

If your looking for one card system with a decent system this PSU will work for you.

I'm happy with it, so far no problems. It's extremely quiet.
It would be nice if the cables would be detachable so you can choose which ones to use and the rest just unplug them.