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hey guys check out this video by corsair as to why you shouldnt buy cheap psus
http://corsair.com/cinema/movie.aspx?id=622747

Good stuff there!

The music just makes the vid

Maybe we should show this to people that want to scrimp on PSUs.

Dan

DMB2000uk wrote:The music just makes the vid

I totally agree!


Good stuff, thanks for the link.

LOL...that was great!!

DMB2000uk wrote:The music just makes the vid

Maybe we should show this to people that want to scrimp on PSUs.

Dan

They won't listen or believe until it happens to them

So if I want a PSU to dramatically explode I should not buy Corsair?

Those, were some generic PSUs

That was spectacular

i have a friend who did something like this. he scoured the internet for some generic cheap psus (the cheapest availible) and tried running them at their rated out puts to see what happened. he taped it to, i was there, but unfourtunatly, all of the footage was lost when on the last of 10 he bought, we decided to take a capacitor bank i have lying around, and put about 800volts intothe psu via the cable that signals it to turn on when you press the power button, and the explosion was awesome! but he lost the footage when the electricity from the explosion arced into the camera and fried the thing (it was a flash memory camera so he lost all footage) im still finding little peices of shrapnel in my basement from that explosion to this day

martini161 wrote:i have a friend who did something like this. he scoured the internet for some generic cheap psus (the cheapest availible) and tried running them at their rated out puts to see what happened. he taped it to, i was there, but unfourtunatly, all of the footage was lost when on the last of 10 he bought, we decided to take a capacitor bank i have lying around, and put about 800volts intothe psu via the cable that signals it to turn on when you press the power button, and the explosion was awesome! but he lost the footage when the electricity from the explosion arced into the camera and fried the thing (it was a flash memory camera so he lost all footage) im still finding little peices of shrapnel in my basement from that explosion to this day

Yeah... I know one guy that full well knows (and expected) these $15-20 PSUs to blow up on him but he figured they were so cheap that it would be better to buy a new one whenever they blew. Long story short, two or three PowMax power supplies later, the current one blew but also took out the computer with it. So much for saving a buck or two... He never did that again. ;)

That had to smell :D
well their 450W is a nice psu u gotta give them that