what are peoples thoughts on branded cases that come with a psu? i am building an office pc for my sister and was looking at something like http://www.scan.co.uk/products/silv...tower-uatx-all-in-1-card-reader-with-300w-psu I assume that although the case is of a good brand, the psu may not be. The silverstone website doesn't specify. Thanks
Cases with different than ATX power supplies usually come bundled with a power supply. Considering it is Silverstone PSU it should be fine.
Does it have any details on the psu brand? I know some places try to do budget bundles and give you a decent case such as an antec 300 with no-name or low quality psus. I've seen tigerdirect do it a lot in store. I'm in Canada so I don't deal with scan, could you try e-mailing them asking for the psu details / brand information?
@mansueto: It is a Silverstone SST-ST30TF. Image from Newegg : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163069
It's a Silverstone case and seeing as they sell their own brand PSU's it's probably one of them. Small form factors cases like the one you posted do not come with ATX PSU's and they are difficult for a non OEM to purchase. Silverstones information on that case. ninja'd!
The psu in the pic above looks different to the one in the case judging by the size, shape and sticker placement. Hopefully it is different as the one in the pic only has 8A on the 1st 12v rail. Most modern PSU's nowadays come with at least 18A on each 12v rail as they have to supply much more power via the motherboard to PCIe slots.
@Deders: it is not different. The picture is just a cutout with a label part of the PSU, so you can read it. Milo ML01 is not a modern case and the PSU is not modern either. And for a 300W PSU 8+14.5A@12V is good enough.
Then hopefully the 2nd rail will power the CPU as 95W/12= nearly 8A. Either that or make sure it's a low power cpu, around 45W or there won't be any headroom for anything else, like Ram MB or drives.
