Advice With Kolink PSU

[Vince]

The Continuum is an 'okay' supply if you can get it on heavy discount, I'd have a problem buying a platinum rated unit that only has a 5 year warranty however. Even mid range Seasonic's and similar have 7-10 years minimum, I'd rather go with the company that has faith in it's product.

All my other supplies are Seasonic Personally if it's in something I care about they are the only brand I buy. The continuum has run 13gpu's (rx550/rx560 level cards) just fine for over two years so given that load I think it will be fine in my mrs little 2700x machine.

 

[Gray2233]

All my other supplies are Seasonic Personally if it's in something I care about they are the only brand I buy. The continuum has run 13gpu's (rx550/rx560 level cards) just fine for over two years so given that load I think it will be fine in my mrs little 2700x machine.

I'm generally pretty brand agnostic myself, all companies have good and bad products, but beyond that customer support/warranty is the most important aspect for me.

I wont touch Asus with a ten foot pole for example, they've some fantastic kit knocking around but I don't ever want to deal with their customer support again. I'll go for a company like Gigabyte instead, which also has some fantastic bits of kit and a proven track record of great UK based customer support.

Anyway, I digress, the Kolink PSU in question is one of their cheap bronze units which I wouldn't trust in a cheap office PC let alone a gaming system with relatively high end parts.

 

[Vince]

I'm generally pretty brand agnostic myself, all companies have good and bad products, but beyond that customer support/warranty is the most important aspect for me.

I wont touch Asus with a ten foot pole for example, they've some fantastic kit knocking around but I don't ever want to deal with their customer support again. I'll go for a company like Gigabyte instead, which also has some fantastic bits of kit and a proven track record of great UK based customer support.

Anyway, I digress, the Kolink PSU in question is one of their cheap bronze units which I wouldn't trust in a cheap office PC let alone a gaming system with relatively high end parts.

Good stance to take, there are no bad products just products at bad prices! I mean unless you can remember the early 90's where there were tons of really bad power supplies on the market. Can't' remember the make but there used to be these gold (in colour) units that cheap builders put in everything and they always went pop!

 

[Gray2233]

Good stance to take, there are no bad products just products at bad prices! I mean unless you can remember the early 90's where there were tons of really bad power supplies on the market. Can't' remember the make but there used to be these gold (in colour) units that cheap builders put in everything and they always went pop!

Chieftech? Q-Tec!

Truly horrific.

I remember a few that were similar, absolutely god awful things that would pop after a week or two of light use. I knew a guy that used to ignore my advice about buying a decent quality supply because he was picking up these £10-20 things and just replacing them every few weeks, must have cost him a fortune in the long run.

 

[Vince]

Chieftech?

I remember a few that were similar, absolutely god awful things that would pop after a week or two of light use. I knew a guy that used to ignore my advice about buying a decent quality supply because he was picking up these £10-20 things and just replacing them every few weeks, must have cost him a fortune in the long run.

Q-Tech! Took me a while to find one but that's the miserable thing! Back then there were millions of junk brands and you never knew if you would plug it in and it would go pop or if it would work Those were the days when RGB wasn't even a thing and you would stick cathode tubes in for the fun!

 

[Gray2233]

Q-Tech! Took me a while to find one but that's the miserable thing! Back then there were millions of junk brands and you never knew if you would plug it in and it would go pop or if it would work Those were the days when RGB wasn't even a thing and you would stick cathode tubes in for the fun!

The PC world in the 90's and 00's was truly cowboy-land tbh, while it's still iffy now it was so much worse back then with some of the crap knocking around.

 

[Vince]

The PC world in the 90's and 00's was truly cowboy-land tbh, while it's still iffy now it was so much worse back then with some of the crap knocking around.

I loved it though, I used to just enjoy the vast amount of junk you could buy. To get a similar amount of junk these days you have to look to the chinese market

 

[ANDARIAL]

Maybe plump for 3600 mhz ram instead of 3200?
Just a thought

 

[Justintime]

Chieftech? Q-Tec!

Truly horrific.

I remember a few that were similar, absolutely god awful things that would pop after a week or two of light use. I knew a guy that used to ignore my advice about buying a decent quality supply because he was picking up these £10-20 things and just replacing them every few weeks, must have cost him a fortune in the long run.

Ah the days of Q-Tec and Deer psus blighting the land with their 4x over reality ratings and 'top tier' build quality. Had many a laugh when someone said their psu was a 500w beast so wasn't the problem then this 1lb thing turned up in the case Powerman, codegen etc.. deserve a mention, with Hiper as well, masquerading as a legit brand but utter rubbish imo.

 

[ryhoper1]

I think I still have one of those q-tec ones in my parts bin I used to replace a dead one in my first Packard bell PC.

Think I have been pretty lucky with PSUs, the first system I built my self I used a coolermaster 450w that is still going strong in an old fx6300 system. When I built my ryzen build I went for a seasonic, I did later have a problem where there was a compatibility issue with Vega 64 CPUs, I installed my vega 64 and after a few minutes gaming the PC would shut down, I was and found an article on here about the issue and seasonic acknowledging it, so I contacted them, and they replied to my email with in hours. They sent me a replacement and sent me a shipping label to return the unit to them. Then a couple of days later they contacted me to ask if everything was running ok. Apart from dealing with overclockers they were the most positive customer support service I have ever dealt with. IIRC a lot of PSUs are made in the same factory like asetek make most of the AIOs but I don't think I would even consider any other brand now.

 

[Gray2233]

Ah the days of Q-Tec and Deer psus blighting the land with their 4x over reality ratings and 'top tier' build quality. Had many a laugh when someone said their psu was a 500w beast so wasn't the problem then this 1lb thing turned up in the case Powerman, codegen etc.. deserve a mention, with Hiper as well, masquerading as a legit brand but utter rubbish imo.

Didn't some of the Hiper units literally catch fire? lol!

I think I still have one of those q-tec ones in my parts bin I used to replace a dead one in my first Packard bell PC.

Think I have been pretty lucky with PSUs, the first system I built my self I used a coolermaster 450w that is still going strong in an old fx6300 system. When I built my ryzen build I went for a seasonic, I did later have a problem where there was a compatibility issue with Vega 64 CPUs, I installed my vega 64 and after a few minutes gaming the PC would shut down, I was and found an article on here about the issue and seasonic acknowledging it, so I contacted them, and they replied to my email with in hours. They sent me a replacement and sent me a shipping label to return the unit to them. Then a couple of days later they contacted me to ask if everything was running ok. Apart from dealing with overclockers they were the most positive customer support service I have ever dealt with. IIRC a lot of PSUs are made in the same factory like asetek make most of the AIOs but I don't think I would even consider any other brand now.

Yup.

Customer support is king in my eyes when dealing with most things, but especially with computer hardware. Even good companies like Seasonic will release the odd bit of crap, and even good bits of hardware will occasionally have faults for whatever reason. I'm perfectly happy to continue using a company that gets something wrong if they're willing to put it right and make the experience as easy as possible on the customer.