I didn't fair so well. I ordered the following that day:
300 Watt Enermax $19 + $6 shipping
330 Watt Enermax $19 + Free shipping
350 Watt Enermax $40 + $6 shipping
Total: $90
They all arrived 3 and 4 days later as expected.
None of them looked used.
The 350 was complete in "bulged" original box. Plugged it in, NOTHING. Took off the cover... Blown 8A/250V fuse (no it didnt blow when I plugged it in). Went around town and found another 8A/250 volt fuse (RadioShack doesn't sell them in the mini size
) Plugged it in (outside of computer case---luckily!!) .. So ZERO power drain on it. POOOF!!! Blew the fuse, bright light, AND it pulled so much power off my circuit, that it caused my UPS on the other outlet in the room to let out a beep of power drain!. (No, the PS wasn't plugged thru the UPS, it was on another outlet on the same circuit). VERY disappointing and upset! Glad it wasn't plugged into the computer when it did that.
The 330 was bare with a post-it note on it and a sticky label with handwriting. No box. Plugged it in directly (not attached to computer). No bad things, and there was +5 volts on the standby line. Plugged it into my system. (Mind you it's an ECS K7s5A with Athlon1700+ that HAD been running on a 250 watt power supply, at full load for 2 weeks without problem, but I wanted extra "headroom"). Turned on the system, booted, got into windows. Started surfing the net... Pow.. instant power off, then it would turn back on then a second later turn back off, then a second later back on... kept doing this until I unplugged. (Again, I did NOT have it attached to a UPS yet). Let it sit, booted into bios, went into hardware monitor, less than 20 seconds later.. started power cycling and clicking. Took it to a Duron 850 machine. Powered up, ran windows fine for about 1 hour. Decided to launch 3DMark2001. Less than 10 seconds into it... POW. it shut down and tried to restart and then blew the fuse. EVEN MORE disappointed and upset!
The 300.. Again, bare and with post it note and sticky label with handwriting, no box. Put it in, and it's worked 100% perfectly fine ever since... Happy with that one. +12 is reading +12.27 but +5 is ONLY reading +4.87... is that normal? (My old 250 watt supply had 11.91 and 4.75 for those two rails on the same system).
So, anyway, back to the story... I needed a refund on the 2 dead ones.. 15% "restocking fee" since they don't have any more refurbs to exchange with, PLUS $10 return shipping via UPS ground (in the same box).
So, after spending $90, It's "cost" me $25 ($6 original shipping on defective, $9 "restock fee" and $10 return shipping) to try out and return 2 supplies they clearly didn't test, and the $19+$6 shipping one I'm keeping means it "cost" me $50.....
Not very happy!
300 Watt Enermax $19 + $6 shipping
330 Watt Enermax $19 + Free shipping
350 Watt Enermax $40 + $6 shipping
Total: $90
They all arrived 3 and 4 days later as expected.
None of them looked used.
The 350 was complete in "bulged" original box. Plugged it in, NOTHING. Took off the cover... Blown 8A/250V fuse (no it didnt blow when I plugged it in). Went around town and found another 8A/250 volt fuse (RadioShack doesn't sell them in the mini size
) Plugged it in (outside of computer case---luckily!!) .. So ZERO power drain on it. POOOF!!! Blew the fuse, bright light, AND it pulled so much power off my circuit, that it caused my UPS on the other outlet in the room to let out a beep of power drain!. (No, the PS wasn't plugged thru the UPS, it was on another outlet on the same circuit). VERY disappointing and upset! Glad it wasn't plugged into the computer when it did that.The 330 was bare with a post-it note on it and a sticky label with handwriting. No box. Plugged it in directly (not attached to computer). No bad things, and there was +5 volts on the standby line. Plugged it into my system. (Mind you it's an ECS K7s5A with Athlon1700+ that HAD been running on a 250 watt power supply, at full load for 2 weeks without problem, but I wanted extra "headroom"). Turned on the system, booted, got into windows. Started surfing the net... Pow.. instant power off, then it would turn back on then a second later turn back off, then a second later back on... kept doing this until I unplugged. (Again, I did NOT have it attached to a UPS yet). Let it sit, booted into bios, went into hardware monitor, less than 20 seconds later.. started power cycling and clicking. Took it to a Duron 850 machine. Powered up, ran windows fine for about 1 hour. Decided to launch 3DMark2001. Less than 10 seconds into it... POW. it shut down and tried to restart and then blew the fuse. EVEN MORE disappointed and upset!
The 300.. Again, bare and with post it note and sticky label with handwriting, no box. Put it in, and it's worked 100% perfectly fine ever since... Happy with that one. +12 is reading +12.27 but +5 is ONLY reading +4.87... is that normal? (My old 250 watt supply had 11.91 and 4.75 for those two rails on the same system).
So, anyway, back to the story... I needed a refund on the 2 dead ones.. 15% "restocking fee" since they don't have any more refurbs to exchange with, PLUS $10 return shipping via UPS ground (in the same box).
So, after spending $90, It's "cost" me $25 ($6 original shipping on defective, $9 "restock fee" and $10 return shipping) to try out and return 2 supplies they clearly didn't test, and the $19+$6 shipping one I'm keeping means it "cost" me $50.....
Not very happy!
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