OCWorkbench Readers' Award 2002

Best Power Supply Unit

A casing always come with a PSU that is rated 300W, 350W. Just imagine why would someone buy a separate PSU for the same price of a casing that comes with a PSU ? Of course there is something special about these separately sold PSU. Most of these PSUs are the "Real stuff" and is the power central to power up your hungry processor and accessories. From the chart, our readers really love the Antec PSU and Enermax.

Best Power Supply Unit

Antec True Power 480W 26.6% Antec True Power 550 18.9% Enermax 550 17.5% Enermax EG 365P-VE FCA (350W) 17.0% HEC 300 7.0% PC Power & Cooling Turbo Cool 425 ATX 4.2% Topower 350W 3.3% Sparkle 350W 3.0% VIP 550W 1.9% Hiper 420W 0.7% Total Votes: 429

Best Buy RAM (DDR)

Another major component is the DDR memory module. Corsair leads with XMS3200 and XMS3500C2. Samsung PC2700 OEM is third. It is clear cut from the voters which are the well accepted brands and modules used by our readers worldwide.

Best Buy RAM (DDR)

Corsair XMS3200 CAS 2 25.7% Corsair XMS3500 C2 17.6% Samsung PC2700 CAS 2.5 13.1% Crucial PC2100 DDR266 CAS 2.5 9.4% Samsung PC3500 CAS 2 7.1% Twinmos PC3200 7.1% GEIL GL PC3700 466Mhz DDR 6.5% Kingston HyperX 3500 5.9% OCZ PC3500 EL CAS 2 4.1% Hynix 256M PC2100 7ns 1.8% Micron PC2100 256M 1.6% Total Votes: 490

Best Buy Storage Device (Hard Disks)

Lately, I have been reading other websites on which is the best HD to purchase. It is not coincidence and the top rated HD most sites chose is the same as our voters too. WesternDigital JB series (8M Cache). I am using one right now and the stores are out of stock for the 80G model. The 2nd and 3rd are both Seagate Barracuda 4 and 5 series.

Best Buy Storage Device (Hard Disks)

Western Digital JB series (8M cache) 40.3% Seagate Barracuda IV series 13.0% Seagate Barracuda V series (8M cache) 12.2% Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 series 10.3% Maxtor DiamondMax Plus D740X 9.7% IBM 180 GXP series 8.7% IBM 120 GXP series 3.9% Western Digital BB series (2M cache) 1.9% Total Votes: 516

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