who makes this junk power supply

[zikronix]

So now that my new power supplie is on the way who in the heck makes this junk "powork" power supply. This power supply is indeed junk is it not.

Here

 

[Zepper]

Not enough info. Link us a closeup pic of the label of your junk box...

.bh.

 

[zikronix]

Here

 

[Praxis1452]

holy crap it's a cheap power supply. 50A on the 5v rail.

 

[Goi]

It's an older ATX design., which explains the different current distribution among the rails. I've never heard of Powork though so I can't comment on its quality.

 

[Budman]

POW!!! it dont work. 😉

 

[zikronix]

No ul listings...I actully think its worse than powmax power supplies

 

[Zepper]

Yup, I don't see any UL/RU or TUV. Powmax is pretty bad but that junk box is worse...

.bh.

 

[jonnyGURU]

By the way the sticker is laid out and the arrangement of the fans, I would say that's probably a Wintech. But it's probably a 400W that this "POW ORK" company felt the need to rate as a 600W.

It might be able to do 50A on the 5V rail by itself, but I guarantee you that if I used my load tester to put the 5V@50A, 12V@24A and 3.3V@19A (should total 600W without going over the label specs) that it'll run for all of two seconds and shut down. 😉

On the flip side, if it were a Powmax and I put 5V@50A, 12V@24A and 3.3V@19A on it, it would 'splode.

 

[zikronix]

doesnt wintech make sunbeam, and a bunch of other quality power supplies.

 

[jonnyGURU]

Wintech makes a lot of power supplies. Sunbeam isn't one of them.

Quality or not, I take issue with the 600W label. Same reason I dis the Cooler Master eXtreme Power 600W and all of the Aspire and Okia power supplies. They make people have the perception that a power supply is higher end then it really is because they jack up the wattage.... and the price... by 50%

DO NOT use it for a dual core CPU. DO NOT attempt to run a high end PCI-e video card with it. DO NOT attempt SLI. DO NOT use that power supply in a machine with a RAID array. Otherwise, you're fine. 😉

I'll just say this: I wouldn't suggest paying more than $30 or $40 for that. Please tell me you only paid $15 or $20. 😉

 

[Rubycon]

Are you kidding me? It's 600W! Of course it has to be good - I mean it's 600 w-a-t-t-s. 😉

 

[jonnyGURU]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
Are you kidding me? It's 600W! Of course it has to be good - I mean it's 600 w-a-t-t-s. 😉

LOL!

I think I have it figured out... It pulls a maximum of 600W from the wall.

600W @ 70% efficiency = 420W.

PERFECT!! 😀

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
By the way the sticker is laid out and the arrangement of the fans, I would say that's probably a Wintech. But it's probably a 400W that this "POW ORK" company felt the need to rate as a 600W.

It might be able to do 50A on the 5V rail by itself, but I guarantee you that if I used my load tester to put the 5V@50A, 12V@24A and 3.3V@19A (should total 600W without going over the label specs) that it'll run for all of two seconds and explode. 😉

On the flip side, if it were a Powmax and I put 5V@50A, 12V@24A and 3.3V@19A on it, it would 'splode.

 

[zikronix]

I think I paid like 24.99 or some crap like that...and that was after 75% off becuase it was "over stock"

Yea I have a new power supply on the way. I believe this one was nuking drives.

It was in a machine that the following.

Opteron 146 @ 2.9GHz
Gskill 2GB @ 230 MHz x 2 (460Mhz Respectivly)
Raedon x800 Pro PCI-E
Maxtor 160 Gig
2 Maxtor 300 Gig (raid)
NEC DVDRW 3550

Yea no wonder why I was having problems. I had a problem with drives failing and reboots. Im thinking both are related to the power supply.

On the flip side Ive had some cheapie power supplies that have ran great and hand no problems. but this is the last time I will buy a cheapie