Why not to buy cheap power supplies

[Digimer]

On 10-10-06 06:01 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Here is a "500W" power supply being tested at 420W load.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCwgK_fvZ6I
> 
> It was the second one they tried just in case the first one was a fluke.

There is a very good reason why I've advocated for quality PSUs. Over
the last 15 years I have seen no end of fuxxored systems that were
killed by cheap power supplies.

The axiom "You get what you paid for" was made for PSUs.

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