How long have you had your power supply ?

C64

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Having recently had a corsair hx520 give up the ghost having run an overclocked system since 17/03/07 would be interested to see which power supplies are lasting these days.

So mine lasted almost 16 months then suddenly gave up, a good power supply for the fact they send you a brand new one if it breaks within 5 years
The only downside is the postage cost though.

I would not recommend corsair power supplies now so much if you can find another one with a 5 year warranty and a cheaper rma solution though as corsairs rma shipping address is in the netherlands and will cost you £25-£30 cheapest postage available to send it there which kind of makes the 5 year warranty a little less attractive, other manu's have a 3-5 year warranty and have a uk shipping address .

Model: Enermax noisetaker 365 lifespan currently 6 years and going strong

Model: Corsair HX520 lifespan 16 months
Case: Akasa Eclipse 62 Top mounted PSU
 
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My Enermax Liberty 620w went the week before Christmas (07) which had been running for 14 months, not constintley though.
 
I've only had my current Seasonic M12 700W for 2 months, but my previous Seasonic S12 500W is 4 years old and still going strong.
 
my enermax noisetaker 600w is over three and a half years old. still works ok but i replaced it 2 days ago with a thermaltake toughpower 750w.
 
FSP sparkle 700W had it for at least 2 years. maybe the best noob purchase i made:p


back then i thought all PSUs were the same and i just wanted the one with the highest power rating
 
My current Corsair... a few months.

Had an Antec 380w TruePower in my previous system which died when I shorted something together. It was that PSU blowing which made me spend £600 on my current machine :eek:

I built a mate of mine a PC about 4 years ago... Athlon XP 2500, Abit NF7-S, 1gb RAM... pretty good spec for the time. He rang me last week telling me that the Enermax 350w PSU had gone pop :( Probably full of dust rather than dying of component failure though.
 
I'd always recommend OCZ (except elite Xstream). We use scores of these a week and hardly get any back. I've owned two personally for over a year and never had a problem with them.

Currently on an Asus barebones 250w mind, powering 4HDDs and an 8600GT :eek:
 
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Had my current Corsair HX620 for 11 months now and no problems so far.:)

The one in my previous rig was an unbranded 600W PSU but that is still fine after 3 years.

C64 said:
I would still recommend corsair power supplies though as the rma is now in uk and the warranty is 5 years.
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UK RMA for Corsair is good news, if I have any problems.
 
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not even one day.

Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 650W (upgrade from my 2nd hand tagan 430W u15) now for some 4850 xfire action :) (hurry up HIS with your ICE Q)
 
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