Which power supply?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Jun 18 18:18:55 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:00:46AM -0700, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> Ditto for Enermax. I've generally had decent luck with Antec too. I
> had one blow awhile back but it went cleanly. When a crappy PSU goes,
> it is generally happy to take out other components in your PC. When a
> good PSU goes, at least it often has the courtesy to commit Sepuku
> rather than going Kamikaze on your motherboard and drives, etc....

Yeah my PC Power & Cooling that took the major power surge at least did
its job and didn't take out any of the nice Core i7-920 box.

> As many have mentioned though, brand means little, because a given
> brand will have both good and crappy models. The hardwaresecrets site
> that Lennart mentioned sounds like a good place to check up on one.
> 
> Also, the modular power supplies are quite nice in that it can save a
> lot of unnecessary cable-clutter. I recently put an "OCZ Modstream
> Pro" PSU in a computer for somebody else. Other than smelling a bit
> funky for the first 15 minutes (common enough) it worked nice and
> quiet.

Yep.

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