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[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: tropic

Originally posted by: Phenocain
Ok so am going to buy a new computer. It was suggested that I get an

Antec 450Watt SmartPower 2.0 ATX 12V V2.0
or
AntecAntec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 ATX12V 550W

These are not good PSU's to buy??

They're both sturdy power supplies, but a lot depends on what you're going to power with them and which rails the components are going to be sucking on.

Anyhoo, just to contribute to the mood of this thread, here's a partial list of PSU brands that have failed in less than a year in rigs I've built or serviced.

Antec
FSP
Enermax
PCP&C
Seasonic
Zippy
OCZ
ThermalTake

The most spectacular (from the lady's description--I wasn't in her daughter's room when it happened) was a murder-suicide perpetrated by a Seasonic that caught fire for a few seconds. When she brought it in, the case around the PSU was blackened, there were pieces of transistors loose in the PSU itself, electrolyte had dripped down along the case to the motherboard, and not a single significant component was still functioning but the memory and wireless nic. Looked like the system builder had done a proper job, though. And damn, it smelled bad.

Seasonic was nice enough to replace the PSU, and I built a new system around it. They really do make great power supplies. When God wants you to upgrade, mere mortals must obey.

Too funnyeee.....heheheeee

 

[andyandyandy]

Just saying, all power supplies will fail due to many reasons as you go up the scale of price you usually get less failure rate. Pure and simple. Luck probably contributed to it too. Every power supply will fail even if it costed a trillion dollars.

 

[ones3k]

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