Delayed power up and 1-2 second freezing are not typical of a power supply problem. BSOD and restarts are usually a power supply.

But... That supply is pretty light for the system you are running. An upgrade would be advisable. 550W Truepower or bigger if you plan on more upgrades (like 8800 video).

Back to the problems. Slow power up could be too much junkware loading at start up or a device is not initializing properly. The TV Tuner is a big contributor to my boot time. Defrag your Boot drive, disable unused/rarely used programs that load at startup, do a spyware scan. Run Bootvis it will tell what is running at startup and how long it is taking.

The 1-2 second freezing happens regularly to a lot of people. If you notice a lot of disk activity when the freeze happens, memory is full and the computer is swaping stuff in memory out to the hard drive pagefile which takes time. Also if you have your HD's set to go to power down they need to spin up before accessed and that takes a couple seconds. So look for disk activity during the freeze.

PS Vanquiched understated the potential resistance to his recommendation... I would not put a $19 PSU in any computer that costs more than $100. And then I'd still be nervous.

Delayed power up and 1-2 second freezing are not typical of a power supply problem... Slow power up could be too much junkware loading at start up or a device is not initializing properly. The TV Tuner is a big contributor to my boot time. Defrag your Boot drive, disable unused/rarely used programs that load at startup, do a spyware scan. Run Bootvis it will tell what is running at startup and how long it is taking.

The 1-2 second freezing happens regularly to a lot of people. If you notice a lot of disk activity when the freeze happens, memory is full and the computer is swaping stuff in memory out to the hard drive pagefile which takes time. Also if you have your HD's set to go to power down they need to spin up before accessed and that takes a couple seconds. So look for disk activity during the freeze

I would not put a $19 PSU in any computer that costs more than $100. And then I'd still be nervous. Aside from frying the computer cheap power supplies do catch fire. I had one once.

Until it fries, takes the computer with it and maybe $5 -10k in smoke damage to your home.
-How much damage warantee coverage does the PSU manufacturer supply? -Do you even know who and where they are incorporated?

Antec and Enermax have damage coverage in their warantees.

Or lets put it another way. I can load 2 rounds into a revolver, spin the cylinder, stick it to my temple and pull the trigger and odds are pretty good (1 in 3) that I'll live through it. People do this all the time whne drunk or stoned. But is it a good idea?

On point. Newegg lists 3 reviews for the product.
1 fried
1 didn't fry
1 assumed additional not fried, (assuming the OSNN poster is not the positive on newegg).

That gives you a one in three chance of catastrophic failure. (2 bullets out of 6 in PSU russian roulette.) Not grounds to recommend a product.

On point. 30 years Engineering experience designing power supplies.
The unit selling price is composed of engineering labor, manufacturing labor, material costs and overhead. Labor and overhead is fixed since everybody manufactures in 3rd world countries that pay in dollars per month not dollars per hour. That leaves material cost as a way to get price down.
You leave out the overvoltage and over current protection parts, use smaller, poorer grade magnetic cores that run hotter, use lower current and voltage rated switching transistors with higher on state losses, use the cheapest fan you can find. You skip quality control inspections and burn in testing before shipping. You buy your parts on the grey market which often is selling reject parts instead of certified parts. You do not do a full bake to cure the winding impregnations on the magnetics. Then you cut your profit margin to the minimum which means you can not afford to honor warantees or pay for collateral damage.

Think about the $20 price on newegg. Neweggs profit, shipping costs from Asia to the USA leaves the manufacturers sell price at about $10 to cover material, labor, profit and overhead. Can't be done with any kind of reliability.

Can you get one that works ok? Sure, but is it prudent to risk a $1000-3000 computer on it?

what do y'all think of this? http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products...id=5&sid=12730

The Antec True Power are top notch PSU's IMHO , I have never had trouble with Antec