Why not to buy cheap power supplies

[Fabio FZero]

That's nothing. It was pretty common to find power supplies in Brazil
that had two wattages: a "peak" one (that would be your 500W) and a
"regular" (around 300W).

As a friend of mine once said: I never knew you could sell power
supplies claiming you have PMPO Watts. :-P

Obviously these were crap, but they're standard issue for almost
everybody who builds vanilla machines. I bought an Akasa power supply
as soon as I could when I still had a desktop.

- FZ

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:16, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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