Hey guys,I had a PC Power&Cooling 750 that gave up on me last night after 3 years of service. Luckily it's still under warranty so I will RMA it when I get some time.In the meanwhile, I'd like to get a new PSU as I'm slowly buying parts to a new system. The Corsair HX 1000 looks promising as well as the the Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold 1000.1000w is what I'm looking for but would like to keep it under $200 at the same time. On Newegg the Corsair is currently $220 and the CM is $200. Then I kept browsing and found this Antec for $170. Seems to have to good reviews. Wondered if anyone around here has experience with it.I see the the Corsair has a mail-in-rebate that will bring the overall cost to $200 so I may go with that one just based on reputation. But any thoughts would be appreciated.Rob

Excellent PSU, great price.

Personally I'd get the Coolermaster for it's gold rating.

Haha one vote for the Antec and one for the CM. And Alex, I found the CM because I saw you had one in your sig. lol I'll be making a purchase tomorrow so any more voters feel free to chime in. Thanks.Oh... and Max, I see you have an Antec in your sig so both votes are actually biased... Rob

Wow! Max, you have a pretty good o/c and overall system on a 650w PSU. Do I even need 1000w?I need to make a sig but I'm running FS9 on WinXP with a Core2 E6850 (3.0 o/c to 3.6) and a 8800 GTX. I have about 600 addon sceneries, FSGlobal, Ultimate terrain, REX, tons of AI etc... FS9 fully customized, all sliders maxed and limit my frames to 45fps. Not a stutter anywhere.I'm having second thoughts on FSX, thinking ahead about the task (and costs) of bringing it up to par. I want to wait and see what the new MS Flight will bring before I commit myself. Rob

Wow! Max, you have a pretty good o/c and overall system on a 650w PSU.

Thanks.

Do I even need 1000w?

If you ever want to run multiple high-end graphics cards and OC the snot out of a high TDP CPU you'll need more than what I've got, otherwise a quality 650W-750W unit is enough for most everyone's needs.

Thanks for the input! I'm going to go look thru some more sigs on the forum and make a decision in a few hours. Thanks again.Rob