Why not to buy cheap power supplies

[Renata Rocha]

And after our very first blackout, the 300W blew up. We were lucky
enough because the 500/300 was the only piece of hardware at our place
that died on that blackout.

And it was OMG AMAZING how the new Akasa was so incredibly silent and
way better. It was even smaller.



On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:43, Fabio FZero <fabio.fzero-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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