[wellylug] 2nd blown up powersupply

[Julian Osborne]

Jethro Carr wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 17:17, Julian Osborne wrote:
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>>Next time I suggest getting a Eneramx or OCZ.
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>well, according to the link you gave, Enermax are also manafactured
>there, and comments on the forum said that they are basicly junk.
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>In fact, what isn't manafactured in china or taiwan now?
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OCZ ? but they are overpriced in NZ.
antec? but they zap you and are crap. ie. a 480W couldn't handel a 
6800Ultra and a few HDDs

>>I have never seen anything worth looking at that is made by
>>thermaltake.
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>>If you go to some forums around the net, you will find that
>>thermaltake PSUs are just rebranded cheep PSUs. I didn't believe it
>>myself, but when I saw the pictures, I was like -- ok...
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>>My friend got a thermaltake case - the Tsunami. The made it with Al,
>>but knowing Thermaltake, you get the usual crap.
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>why? What was bad about it?
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Cheep. Thick. Heavy. Ulgy. Noisy. Scratchable. Have design faults, like 
have to take off the whole front of the case to put a CD Drive in, 
because the drive cage is in the way etc.

>>This doesn't surprise me in the slightest that this happened to you,
>>in fact I was waiting for it to happen in a way.
>>People on OCNZ have had cheep PSUs burn stuff up. So you were lucky
>>that it didn't take anything else with it.
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>>see... Ever wonder where your PSU was actually made?
>>http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=775032
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>>Regarding Ascent...
>>I have spoke with there technition, and he is OK - nothing special. A
>>tip for returning products is always go and ask strait for the manager
>>- it works very well. That way you don't have to wait for the the
>>middle man. Just seems you have bad luck. I don't know why so much of
>>your stuff blows up, it could just be bad luck but I think you should
>>do a lot more research on a product before you go buying random
>>thermaltake products.
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>well, I looked at a large amount of reviews that liked it, plus I have
>used thermaltake psu's and fans in the past which have all appeared to
>be a high quality and have performed well, with low noise and good
>stability.
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>Plus from my understanding, thermaltake aren't known to make junk. Can
>anyone else comment on this?
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They are knowen to make stuff that is better than generic brands but not 
top. ie A thermaltake cpu HSF will never beat Thermalrite/coolermaster. 
A thermaltake case fan will never beat Zalman fan. A thermaltake case 
will  never beat a Lian-Li.

Thats my 2c.


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