Dedicated Power Supply?

[Mr.Game]

I've been seeing all sorts of chatter about Power Supply
Units, then I stumbled upon dedicated PSU's...

I haven't seen much information about them, so I
wanted to hear from someone who had more knowledge
regarding them.


Are there benefits?
Are there risks?
Is buying one worth it?

 

[reflex99]

usually you use them to power only your GPU or CPU.

If you are running out of power, and you don't want to buy a whole new unit, they can be a cost effective way of adding more power.

 

[Mr.Game]

usually you use them to power only your GPU or CPU.

If you are running out of power, and you don't want to buy a whole new unit, they can be a cost effective way of adding more power.

This I do know, but my original questions were
if there are any risks or benefits to getting one.

 

[Pensive]

I can't think of any risks and the only benefit would be that if you lack the power you could buy one of them rather than buy a whole new PSU and it would still get the job done. It would however require the use of a 5.25 drive bay so if you didn't have one to spare then that could be a problem. They have fans on them for cooling but I would assume they may still increase the ambient case temp a small amount.