Originally posted by: ones3k
Originally posted by: mechBgon
edit: in another post you admit you think you have a power problem in your house because you've blown 5 crts and a power supply. do you really think any power supply is going to stand up to that?
Now
fisher, that couldn't possibly have
anything to do with it.
😉 😉 😉
(5 blown CRTs, yikes)
Notice how i didnt include the link to MY antec failure.
edit: i also push my CRTs using the highest available refresh rate. That may have something to do with it.
I just ran onto this topic and I hate to bring up old sore topics, but this one takes the cake.
Upon first reading this, I confess that it scares me about the Antec Power Supplies, but I have one on my Antec Sonata case and I?ve been thinking of building my second system.
It?s taken me several hours covering what has been written here and I?ve come upon a decision; this whole topic is crapolla express due to one person in particular.
ones3k perclames:
?From what i've read, power supplies are quite cheap to make and companies make huge profits off them. Thats why we are seeing all these new companies such as OCZ entering the mix.?
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That is just not true. It is so far from the truth it makes me sick that someone who knows nothing would make a claim such as that and continue on through this thread making other false assertions.
Though I?m now 71 and may be thought of by some as one who knows nothing, I?ve worked as a young man who wrote the book on transistor technology and I engineered some of the first wafer chips made with him almost fifty years ago at Radiation Inc.
I?ve also worked at the John F Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the last forty some years and I?ve seen it all. I?ve seen power supplies that cost as much as you make in a year and takes two men to lift blow sky high after a years use.
You can build a power supply for less than twenty dollars and you can spend as much as a thousand dollars on the same unit making it better; I?ve worked with the best and I?ve seen them all fail at times.
You don?t put junk in highly regulated power supplies and expect it to do half the job that some of these units accomplish. I know, I?ve lifted them and looked inside of them. They have transformers, SCR diode switches, resisters, caps, and regulating circuitry. I?ve seen some of them and those transformers are heavy and costly. You are getting a real bargain at a hundred dollars a unit to get the regulation they produce.
I have to admit, you got me scared and discouraged at first, but I?ve done my homework boy. I?d suggest you do yours too and shut the hell up, quit scaring people until you learn something.
I?m assuming you?re a kid, but I can?t find out, you?ve disabled your information. I?m no kid; I have years and years behind me.
I?m sorry for bringing this sick topic back folks, but I had to vent after spending half the night researching my next build for power supply units and this guy wasted my time.
