WTH is this guy talking about...?

[Glendor]

I was reading some Newegg reviews on a PSU I was considering, and a guys put in this comment below:

Cons: A loud pop--a capacitor blowing--can be achieved by hooking up a fan control the wrong way. The fan control should be given MUCH care in hooking up. This is the small 4 pronger at the end of a chain of 3 large 4-prongers meant for fan power.

Did he hook up a fan controler to the floppy drive power connector, or better yet, did he hook a fan into the floppy power connector?

WTH?

 

[Jeff7]

So I guess in other words, "This product may break if you use it incorrectly."

 

[billyb0b]

haha!!! there are a lot of moronic reviews on products that have a ton of reviews on them. take the idiotic ones with a grain of salt

 

[Yellowbeard]

Reviews like the one posted above should NEVER be posted. All they do is skew the product rating and are worse than worthless.

 

[thescreensavers]

So I guess in other words, "This product may break if you use it incorrectly."

This

Reviews like the one posted above should NEVER be posted. All they do is skew the product rating and are worse than worthless.

and this

 

[CurseTheSky]

I read one a while ago on an expensive motherboard (X38? X48? it was ~$300) where the guy gave it one star / egg because it wouldn't turn on. He used the newer, 8-pin power connector instead of the legacy 24 pin connector and everything!

What made it so memorable was the fact that he went on and on about how he builds computers and he knows what he's doing, and he can't believe a manufacturer that makes something as prestigious and advanced as that particular motherboard would have the audacity to ship a bad product to him!

 

[crucibelle]

The funniest/strangest one I read was about a computer case (can't remember which one, exactly). The guy said that the case/fan filters were labeled as 'waterproof' so after he had the case for a while (with all of his hardware inside, of course) he took it out to the yard and sprayed it down with a waterhose. 0_0

He was livid because water had gotten inside the case and all over his hardware (of course) and when he turned his comp on, it was fried. The strangest thing is, that he said he had done this with every other computer he had (taken it out in the yard and sprayed it down with a hose) and that water had NEVER before gotten into the case. Crazy.

 

[Meghan54]

Cons: A loud pop--a capacitor blowing--can be achieved by hooking up a fan control the wrong way. The fan control should be given MUCH care in hooking up. This is the small 4 pronger at the end of a chain of 3 large 4-prongers meant for fan power.

Did he hook up a fan controler to the floppy drive power connector, or better yet, did he hook a fan into the floppy power connector?

WTH?

That's exactly what that genius did....and let me guess, he has "high level" of expertise.

But that's not as good as the review that complained his power supply wouldn't work after "I rubbed it on the carpet for a while."

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Newegg reviews should NEVER be used for making a purchase decision on a product. Their own website tells you that.

 

[Destiny]

I remember reading that review when I was looking for a PSU... it made me laugh...:biggrin:^_^

 

[Glendor]

I remember reading that review when I was looking for a PSU... it made me laugh...:biggrin:^_^

I'm still laughing about it too Would love to have seen the puzzled look on his face as he gazed at the floppy connector, thinking "WTF is this for???....OH! Duh! Where's that fan..."


LOL

 

[Valis]

Not so long ago I read the review that lowered the score for a really nice Chieftec PSU. The complaint (only one) about the PSU was that the cables for the HDDs and others were ugly, nothing else. :O