Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
Originally posted by: HOOfan 1
really it would probably just be easier to say your favorite OEM manufacturer.
CWT
Seasonic
Etasis
Enhanced
TOPOWER
Seventeam
etc.
why?
An Antec PSU made my Seasinoc is not a PC Power & Cooliong PSI.
Niether is a Seasonic a Antec PSU.
Just because a PSU made for another company by an OEM mean mothing!
Some of the better companies actually have there own enginneers and there own design teams.
wonders never cease,,,
Haven't worked in manufacturing long, have you? Despite a company having its own engineers and design teams, the quality of the product and how it's made always ends up with the manufacturer....not the design team nor their engineers.
Consider......a group of engineers with their design team sends out specs for XX part to several manufacturers, requesting sample parts and cost. (Yes, this is how it's done.)
The manufacturer returns the requested samples made as close to what the engineers wanted, but with probably changes in its design, simply because those engineers, unless they actually work in the manufacturing plant, have really no idea how the part(s) are made in reality.
So, then the original engineers and the chosen manufacturing plant's engineers meet and come to an agreement on the final design....one that the manufacturer can produce in a cost-effective manner and can be produced in the plant without wholesale purchasing of new machinery, unless a long-term contract can be signed and the design engineers' company can guarantee the machinery wil be paid for through the contract and delivered product.
Most manufacturers, though, try to deliver requested parts using existing production facilities......which in most cases requires several redesigns of the part, be it a bearing or power supply, until the design meets both the purchasing company's requirements and the manufacturing company's production capabilities.
So, in the end, the OEM manufacturer does indeed matter. If PCP&C had chosen, for instance, Enhance to produce their Silencer line instead of Seasonic, I'd guarantee you the guts would be vastly different from what they look like right now.....in componentry selection and layout.
That's how it's done.
From years of experience working with two manufacturers......one in insulating forms (firebrick, ceramic coatings and brick, etc.....for kilns, furnaces, etc.) and one who manufacturers roller and taper bearings (Timken Co.)