What is it with PSUs these days?!!

[Dainas]

I'm going insane, after having my Noisemaker 2 650W burn out a few weeks ago(still going through with the RMA from that phantom customer service company) my Silverstone Zeus 850w just up and dies on me after only a week. I tested them on working computers and both went certifiably dead, also know it isn't a matter of my computer being insane in power draw(have a 700w battery that warns when things get hairy) or that I have bad electricity.

I swear if Silverstone turns out as substandard at RMAs as Enermax (which it is already hinting at by requiring that RMAs be faxed). I'm going to give up on gaming, sell all my parts, buy a Mac Pro and never look back.

 

[Talcite]

are you sure you don't have bad electricity?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I had something like this. I killed two Enermas 600+ PSUs back when 20-pin PSUs were the norm, and it was hard to find a 24-pin PSU. My machine was dropping hard drives randomly, shutting off, stuff like that. Lost my RAID 5 array, and I got tired of it. Went to dual Seasonic S12s (600 & 500), as well as a 1100 VA UPS unit. Worked fine after that.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

An Enermax going pop, does not suprise me.
A Zeus going down does.

Good Luck.

 

[Dainas]

Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
An Enermax going pop, does not suprise me.
A Zeus going down does.

Good Luck.

Thanks

Yeah the strange thing is as if the PSU is having problems with low power draw idle. It never hitched running Oblivion, or the 3+ hours of Medieval 2 the other day. It died while I was just running a TVtuner.

How this would cause the PSU to just give up on life(its not completely dead, just flashes its powerlight wether plugged in or not, refusing to boot anything).. I can't figure. The whole reason I bought one was because of how highly regarded this PSU was.

My old B/W powermac and roomated overclocked athlon 3200xp system(with a noname 450w PSU) never ever have problems after years of use. My mac even has a rather draining videocard, expansion cards and drives galore with CPU with over 5x performance and 2x the powerdraw its motherboard was designed to handle.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

If you look up the specs at Silverstonetek.com, it will be seen that the minimum load for the 3.3V is 1.5A and the 5V is 1.0A. If these lines are not loaded it should not cause the PSU to die but only offer unstable 12V.
Register over at jonnyguru.com > Forums and ask over there. Oklahoma Wolf will be interested in this problem...The guy is sharp.

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[AdamK47]

Are you running the Silverstone Zeus 850 with the specs listed in your sig? If so, why?

 

[Dainas]

Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
If you look up the specs at Silverstonetek.com, it will be seen that the minimum load for the 3.3V is 1.5A and the 5V is 1.0A. If these lines are not loaded it should not cause the PSU to die but only offer unstable 12V.
Register over at jonnyguru.com > Forums and ask over there. Oklahoma Wolf will be interested in this problem...The guy is sharp.

NOTE: To whom it my concern. I am NOT a shill for jonnyguru.com, badcaps.net, silentpcreview.com or AnandTech.com

Yeah, thats what I was thinking, however it should not have killed the PSU(as you said). Will do and thanks!

Originally posted by: AdamK47 3DS
Are you running the Silverstone Zeus 850 with the specs listed in your sig? If so, why?

I'm slowly working my way on to a new rig. The Zeus is the only part on to my final plan of a Core 2 Duo 8800GTX SLI system that was not likely to bomb in price soon, seeing how my Noisetaker 2 died...

Luckly the RMA is turning out super fast so no need to modify my sig yet.