Glad Enermax have good RMA .......

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As my second PSU in 6 six months has "died" :(

In february, after just over a years service my Liberty 620W, quite literally went "pop" (luckilly it didnt take anything wih it).

A swift email got me an RMA number and within 5 days of posting the PSU back I had a brand new replacement (now sat on my shelf as a "spare").

Due to sods law i needed my PC desperately the day it went pop (must remeber to email work back myself at the office :S) so went striaght to OCUK and got a Liberty 720W.

All has been fine until the weekend when on boot up the alarm and LED were shwing that the fan wanst spinning on boot up :S.

I rermoved the PSU and cleaned it up with compressed air and the blades with a cloth - and now does it 50% of the time.

I can overide the alarm to boot without the annoying alarm and the fan does 90% of the time start to spin when the PC has been on for 5 minutes or so, but not ideal and I dont want a second one poping on me.

I emailed Enermax on Sunday and got an RMA number first thing this morning.

Great RMA but (for me) not so good luck with the products, although they do appear well built and robust - anyone else had problems with them ?

/me gets "spare" PSU off shelf :(
 
1: Sounds like capacitor.

2: You sure you don't have voltage spikes/surges?

3: You're grilling PSU with awfully lot of heat by having case with PSU on top and lousily designed components.
 
EsaT said:
1: Sounds like capacitor.

2: You sure you don't have voltage spikes/surges?

3: You're grilling PSU with awfully lot of heat by having case with PSU on top and lousily designed components.
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1 - Possibly, but im now swpaaing it myself :P

2 - Not that ive noticed

3 - ?? care to exaplain further ?
 
You could see can you borrow power quality analyzer/meter from power company.

Nvidia chipsets are more power hungry than others.
8800GTX (@stock) consumes more power at "idle" than most modern Intel CPUs (and mainstream cards) during full load.
Heat rises upward > top is the hottest place to position PSU.
 
I simply will not recommend Enermax psu's any more. I had a Liberty 400w in my second pc and that blew up after 2 weeks!! Tripped out the main fuse box for the house too.
 
My Enermax Liberty just doesn't allow the PC to turn off when I shut down. It'll just keep running even though Windows has been turned off. Its annoying as I have to wait around and then switch it off at the switch.
 
Corsair dont make PSU's and even then they had a spate of ones blowing up.

Antec are the same, do not make PSU's, had a spate of bad 5v rail and bad caps.

Newer ones by Seasonic are far better.

Every brand has failure.

The peep in post #8 may have that known issue with a certain brand of Mobo that it simply acts up (I cant remember all details but he can come back with brand, think it may have been Abit or gigabyte).

I have an Infinity 720 and its the best PSU I have ever owned or bought for a customer.
 
I know corsair don't 'make' psu's however they contract it out too people that make in their opinion the best PSU's and funnily enough it aint enermax!!

I have taken many PSU's apart in the past and have on many occasions been shocked at the quality of both the build and components in enermax PSU's.
 
Good for you m8. ;)

I don't live in the past, I go by current models, a £70-80 PSU is not in the same class as this.


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helmutcheese said:
The peep in post #8 may have that known issue with a certain brand of Mobo that it simply acts up (I cant remember all details but he can come back with brand, think it may have been Abit or gigabyte).
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Yeah I have the Gigabyte K8NF9. I remember reading about problems but didn't read into it enough if it affected me and what what it meant by acting up.

I don't really have much of a complaint as my computer isn't off much anyway, it's just a slight annoyance. It didn't always do it but now it always does unless I replug the PSU to the mobo then it doesn't do it for a few turn offs.
 
me227 said:
Yeah I have the Gigabyte K8NF9. I remember reading about problems but didn't read into it enough if it affected me and what what it meant by acting up.

I don't really have much of a complaint as my computer isn't off much anyway, it's just a slight annoyance. It didn't always do it but now it always does unless I replug the PSU to the mobo then it doesn't do it for a few turn offs.
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Hi m8, I'm pretty sure a Bios update was supposed to fix that issue with your Mobo.
 
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