Corsair CX430 V2 430W Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXV2) $16 After $20 Rebate + Free Shipping
 

Do not see that a thread for this PSU has been posted yet with code PSU80B0113, which is for 20% off select 80 PLUS Bronze power supplies. Brings it down to $16 AR, which is $1 cheaper than the previous lowest price I could find.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...6817139026

Corsair CX430 V2 430W Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXV2) $16 After $20 Rebate + Free Shipping
 

Newegg.com has Corsair CX430 V2 430W Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXV2) for $44.99 - 20% w/ promo code PSU80B0113 - $20 rebate = $15.99 with Free Shipping. Thanks rubadub
Note: Do not enter the promo code listed on item page, but instead use promo code PSU80B0113 in order to achieve the price listed above.

I've got several of these. Good power supplies.

Argh, just bought this last night when there was no coupon code and only a $10 rebate!

thanks, bought one as backup. for $16, can't beat it.

If your order hasn't shipped yet, you can call/chat and see if they can cancel the order and place a new order. The code was sent out yesterday, so at a minimum you can ask if they can at least apply the code to your order. I did this a few weeks ago, and they sent me a gift card for the difference from the code being applied retroactively (they said they did it as a courtesy because my order had not shipped yet).

If I want to use his for a server build is there a way to add more sata power connectors?

You can buy molex to sata adapters so yep.

You can also use these.
http://www.frozencpu.com/products...ector.html

Great deal. Going FP for sure

Would this work with the 5770 card without any problems?

Agreed. A good PSU at decent price.

Definitely....I have this with a 7850 + i52500K, so don't worry......
btw, wat CPU do you have..?

yep you will be fine. AMD recommends a 450w psu, but those numbers are just for safety.

Awesome! I needed a cheap PSU for a WHS build.

great deal for a budget build, I've been pretty happy w/ corsair in the past.

Thank you OP - thumbs up and rep'd.

Here's the link to the rebate form [newegg.com]. Note it's "Limit one card per product line per household."

Make sure you use the coupon in the OP as the one in the link only brings it down to $20.

I bought this a month ago at the same price... great for a budget build. No problems. Quiet. And rebate has shipped!!!

Coupon Code: PSU80B0113

What if I submitted a rebate for the 430 modular one last week. Will this rebate go through? Now question is this one or the 600w one.....hmmm

The CX600 would be $28 after rebate and coupon...I believe.

I called and the CS said that I could actually use the newer rebate and they credited my CC for $9 to cover the 20% coupon. not bad at all!

nice!

Very happy with this power supply. Purchased in August. Quiet, efficient, and stable.

I needed a spare PSU, can't get any better :)

In for 1! Thanks OP. Repped!

What a crock.

I bought a cheap geforce card around black friday that was $5 AR and then a few hours later, they dropped it to FAR. I sent them a funny email that night asking if they could credit me the new price. They said, "No".

So, I used their iron egg guarantee and shoprunner to ship it back to them. :)

One thing was that their iron egg guarantee guaranteed the best price and I was price matching to themselves. I realized that while filling out the iron egg guarantee paperwork.

Got this deal on BF, and just spent my rebate card. They're good for it, and the product is solid. May get another one for a future build now...

Only one PCI-E cable..... will not work with some GPU's

Bought this last year. Works like a champ. Great deal if you are looking for a PSU in this range (430W).

I'd venture a guess and say yes, you should be able to submit both unless the previous rebate was for the same promotion (CM13-3504).

When it says "Limit one card per product line per household" - I don't think that means if you recently submitted an application for a "card" in a different promotion, you can't get a "card" in this rebate because the previous rebate involved the same "product line." I think that you can't receive two visa gift cards from this particular promotion if you're trying to submit rebates for two products within the same "product line." So you can't get two Visa gift cards with respect to this promotion if you submit two rebates for CX430s, or a CX430 and a CX600, etc.

Just my 2 cents though.

$20 after CA tax...still in, it's about that time again

As long as it's a different promotion number, you should be fine. Or, sometimes they do the same promotion number, but allow you to buy many of their products (i.e. 430, 500, 550, 600, 700, 750 watt PSUs). Just look at what the terms are and don't super-read into it.

I've done several Corsair rebates and the only time I was denied was when Newegg screwed up and offered a rebate to a corsair product that shouldn't have been offered and ended up getting a credit on my CC from Newegg. So, corsair is good on paying.

It just has to be a different promo number, thats all that matters.

Id probably go with the 600 myself. Its only a little more lol.

You are correct sir. I missed out on the Antec Neo Eco 620W from the last week or so, and will be jumping on this 600W.

Just use one of these: http://www.systemagnostic.com/wp-..._pci-e.jpg

My friend is using this same PSU with a Radeon 6950 (for well over a year now) with one of these adapters; he hasn't had any issues.

Is this the Corsair unit that changed OEMs recently and isn't as good as it used to be?

I put this in a system build powering an 8500K, A75 motherboard, 8 gigs of RAM, a 2 TB Seagate 7200rpm drive, a 64 GB Crucial M4, wireless card and optical drive. No problems whatsoever - could probably add a dedicated graphics card and still be fine.

I'm not exactly sure who used to make them, but I use this link for current OEMs.
Looks like Channel Well is the current OEM for this line.

Tom's Hardware [tomshardware.com]

Except AFAIK Neo Eco is seasonic based, and CX600 is channel well. The Neo Eco is higher quality.

No, the CX430 was always a CWT PSU. The CX400 was a Seasonic which is a better unit. I wish the fan were a little quieter since it's the only fan that isn't a Sycthe in my build.

Bought one, trying to put together a cheap htpc... Now if only a cheap am3+ CPU could go on sale.

Just bought this power supply along with this: Rosewill LINE-M Micro-ATX Mini Tower Case [newegg.com].

I can't decide if I want to go with the:

i3-3225 Ivy Bridge 3.3GHz LGA 1155 55W Dual-Core HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I33225

or

i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I53570K

I don't do any PC gaming, just emulation and Adobe stuff. I want a very quiet PC. Any suggestions?

hmmm, my current PSU's fan is starting to make noise.
Wonder if I should replace fan (soldered) or the entire PSU...

Which one is better? this one http://www.tigerdirect.com/applic...viewsBlock or the Corsair CX600 from Newegg?

I hate that they use a sleeve bearing fan. Don't they know these fans are going to be in a horizontal position -_-

But for $16 AR, I don't mind voiding the warranty and replacing it the fan myself.

i already cancelled one order with newegg. now based on your link I think I will have to cancel my 430 watts PSU and get this one instead, coz 600w obviously worth for me for another $3

the tigerdirect one charges ~6 shipping

yeah. Just noticed.
thanks,

You can make any of those very quiet. It all depends whether you need 2 extra cores for what you do.
Since the latest Adobe and a lot of simulation software do take advantage of GPU acceleration, you may want to research that and get an i3 with an appropriate GPU (if Intel is not supported).

So the bottom line is about the same. With TD you may loose the shipping fee $6 if you decide to return. However, anyone know which one is better in terms of quality?

Why won't you be? You're pushing less than 200 watts even if you really, really tried.

Thanks OP! I just bought one for the computer I purchased from Cowboom, just in case I want to upgrade the video card in it.
Repped +1

Looking at the picture a little more closely, this looks like the Ultra Limited Edition 600W. Google Tiger's product number and you'll get the same result. Based on this Tom's Hardware [tomshardware.com] chart, that PSU is also made by Channel Well. Basing this off of another forum I read, anything with a voltage switch is pretty outdated. Also, the Ultra does not claim any sort of efficiency, where the Corsair is 80 Plus Bronze (which may only mean they like to pay money for stickers... one may never know). Finally, the Ultra has 2 +12V rails @ 20A, which may or may not play well with more current components, which seem to favor a more powerful single rail (Corsair has a 46A single).

If I'm wrong on any of this, someone please correct me. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not on the cutting edge of PSU knowledge.

No idea what your specific needs are with regards to Adobe, but don't be scared off by the "i3" nature of it. It actually ranks higher than some of the Ivy Bridge i5 laptop processors (like the i5-3360M) on cpubenchmark [cpubenchmark.net]. It's only 2 cores but with hyperthreading, whereas the i5 has 4 physical cores but no HT. Probably not a huge difference. Same (decent) graphics, so I'd guess you're paying a bit extra for the higher clock speed (especially under certain applications)?

Guess it depends on whether the extra $100 is worth it to you...

Good info, thank you. I currently have an AMD Phenom II X4 920 (2.80 GHz). I can't wait to see the difference with an Ivy Bridge.

i5-3360M is 2.8GHz dual core HT, not quad core.

The i5 OP is referring to is a very different beast than the 3225 he is referring to, especially for his applications.

i'm using the 500w version of this (cx500) on a home server. i got an i3 2100, adaptec 6805 raid card, 8x 2tb seagate barracuda green, 3x 3tb seagate 7200rpm, and an ocz 120gb ssd. it's running windows server 2012. the series is a capable psu. i'd buy this without hesitation if i needed one. i may buy it anyway for a backup. corsair psu are great. i haven't rma'd 1 yet. i have rma'd a cooler master though.

This info might help useful to some. This is PSU is built by channel well.

Source:
http://www.tomshardware.com/revie...913-5.html

Using it right now with 2500k and HD7770. Nice PSU for the price.

In for one as a backup. This is the lowest I've seen this PSU.

So, is Channel Well usually good or bad?

got newegg to adjust the price for me, I got it when it was $20AR a week ago

Can anyone confirm what the actual P/N is on this? Rebate is only valid for CP-9020046-NA.

There are several reviews indicating they received an item w/ a different number and were subsequently denied the rebate. I'm already on the fence, guaranteed additional rebate hassle will probably push be over.

Careful with the rebate on this. The rebate is for UPC CP-9020046-NA but sometimes Newegg sends out CP-9020046-US. It's the same power supply but the UPC is different. There was the same offer for the same UPC in December and when I sent my rebate in a few weeks ago it was denied because the UPC didn't match. I noticed that before sending it in and was worried about it. Thankfully when I contacted Newegg customer support chat and they refunded the $20 difference.

The rebate customer support chat person (who I was chatting with at the same time as Newegg) kept repeating the same BS that the UPC didn't match. After many attempts at explaining the situation to her I got mad and told her this is why everyone hates rebates. Surprisingly it worked, and she escalated it. An hour or so later my rebate changed to "valid and is scheduled for final processing" so I might end up getting the power supply for free AR.

Yeah, it's also a mobile processor as noted by the M and the fact I said "laptop". I was just pointing out that the i3 desktop processors often are as good or better than i5 laptop versions. Of course the *desktop* version of the i5 is better than the i3, that goes without saying...

I don't think that you will if you're talking about performance to be perfectly honest (especially if you go with the i3). It will potentially be easier to make the system much more quiet and it will use less power/ put off less heat (22nm architecture vs 40nm). Before all the Intel "fanboys" jump in, I just upgraded from a AMD Phenom II ( very similar to yours but it was 3.5GHz) to an i5-3570K. The WEI (for windows 7) went from a 7.4 to a 7.6. Most everyday tasks seem about the same. It did improve the speed of my MKV conversions a bit but it certainly didn't double (if a conversion took about 40/45 minutes, it's like 30/35 now). For some reason my RAM jumped up to 7.9 from 7.7 with the exact same speed and timings settings in the old system (probably similar to how people report their GPUs to perform a little better with an Ivy Bridge). Just some food for thought. It's not like you have a slouch of a PC right now so you might want to hold off for another year and look at the next gen intels then (the prices should've stabilized by then). It might be $ better spent toward a SSD or GPU.

Is this made by the same company as the Antec 430w earthwatts?


Thanks.

Doesn't matter. This is Corsair PSU. That means that it's made and QA/QCed according to Corsair standards.
Do you ask if Foxconn is ok before you buy an iPhone? :woot:

Well right now I have the AMD Phenom II X4 920 (2.80 GHz), 4GB DDR2 RAM, SATAII HD for boot drive. I'm going to the Ivy Bridge i3-3225, 8GB DDR3 1600 and I will be getting an SSD for my boot drive. I think it will be a major step up from what I have now, and everything was very cheap. My WEI right now is only a 4.1.

Just to tell you WEI doesn't mean anything. If one switches to an i5 they won't see much performance increase in everyday tasks. The phenom can handle that just fine. But when you start using cpu intesive programs, you will see a huge difference. Now if you want to increase gaming fps and have a crappy gpu, your money will be better invested in a new gpu than getting a new processor.

Is channel well bad or something? I know this series is not the best, but I heard its decent and cheap

This unit regularly comes on sale for under $20, and it's a steal at that price. I have one in my HTPC and one in my wife's desktop, recommend them to my friends, and have a spare in the closet for troubleshooting. My only complaint is a rather odd interaction of certain Gigabyte FM1 motherboards, dual core Llano processors, and this power supply. If you don't add a peripheral like a hard drive or video card, the system doesn't pull enough current on start-up. The power supply thinks there is a problem and shuts itself down.

Johnny Guru [jonnyguru.com] performs some of the most comprehensive power supply reviews on the net. He gave this model full points on the "value" part of his review when it was priced at $45.

probably due to the efficiency curve. low efficiencies at low power draws, and probably some other stuff.

Must resist. Already have spare psu

How do I need whether I can use this for my pc or not? I have HP Pavilion P6620F

should be fine after looking at photos on newegg

Thanks. Is there a way to confirm?

TIA

I can confirm. Your HP uses a standard power supply like this one.

I got the regular "80 Plus" version for about this price, and am pretty happy with it. I wish the fan had a speed control, but I understand they are trying to save cost as much as possible. On power off, Kill-a-watt shows 0W. 0W-1W on standby. I have a i3-2120, geforce gtx 460. My system uses about 150W when loaded, 45W on idle.
This one is "80 Plus Bronze", so it should be even better than mine.

Thank you sir...

Using this in my HTPC, have never experienced the "coil whine" problem. Very nice build quality w/ sleeved cables and whatnot. At $16 (Corsair's rebates are very reliable) I'm in for one since an extra PSU could come in handy one day...

I had the squealing power supply on the pervious version. Got it exchanged for this one but haven't opened the box yet.

i assume this works with the 660ti?

Good Deal I just bought 2 for new computers im building

yeah, the coil whine was generations ago, i think on the v2.1, but on v2.2 and 2.3 things seem fine.

How is the noise for this one guys?

THX! This will go in my new HP with an i7 I just got on Friday and haven't even hooked up yet. A perfect example of why you don't spend $30 to upgrade the power supply from the factory. The stock one will go into my old computer my dad will now get.

It only has one PCI 6+2 power connector so you'll need an adapter as the 660ti takes two 6 pins

Has anyone had problems getting the rebates from Corsair on these? My was rejected due to invalid UPC for promotion. I don't see how this could be. I mean it was purchased from Newegg.

you are wrong, 660ti takes two 6 pins.

Learn to read?

it shows the time of your last edit...

I edited out the +2 part. So yes technically I guess I was wrong. 660ti take two 6 pin connectors. This PSU has 1 so a Molex adaptar is necessary

Sigh...

I just went back and checked my reading comprehension then gave myself a slap in the face. Sorry today was a rough day lol

Word of caution: this PSU's sata connectors are very fragile, plastic breaks very easily, rendering the connector useless.

Careful with the rebates. They said it was 'invalid' for no reason, had to go on a chat with the rep: