Why not to buy cheap power supplies

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 07:48:08PM -0400, Digimer wrote:
> 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.

I don't think that power supply was even worth what one would pay for it.

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Len Sorensen
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