EVGA "B" powersupplies, a steaming pile of you know what

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My mom has been running an EVGA 500B powersupply on her machine that consumes MAYBE 70W total at any given time for the past three years (not quite three, more like two and a bit). The machine is cleaned religiously with compressed air including the powersupply, and I have the machine plugged into a surge suppressor. There is also a surge suppressor built into my electrical panel in my home. After 30 months of service this 500B decided to roll over and die and started providing wonky power that was all over the place and out of spec. I swapped it out for my "spare emergency PSU", which is a corsair CX500.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, EVGA B (not B2) powersupplies are steaming piles of manure. Avoid them. You can do so much better for a mere ten pound extra.
 
They are built by HEC who are average at best and mainly build budget units. I certainly wouldn't touch a psu built by them. I always try to push people to buy a decent psu in the first place rather than buy something extremely budget orientated. Most often with psu's is that if you buy cheap you end up buying twice and would have been cheaper to buy a decent one in the first place.

You can RMA it to EVGA though as it has a 36 month warranty.
 
pastymuncher said:
They are built by HEC who are average at best and mainly build budget units. I certainly wouldn't touch a psu built by them. I always try to push people to buy a decent psu in the first place rather than buy something extremely budget orientated. Most often with psu's is that if you buy cheap you end up buying twice and would have been cheaper to buy a decent one in the first place.

You can RMA it to EVGA though as it has a 36 month warranty.
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If I do that all I'll have is another P.O.S. "B" PSU and I don't want to inflict that on my mom.
 
If I'm right its an end of life product and if evga do the same with their power supplies like they do with their gpus theres a possibility you could get a better one. Best to RMA it just incase and if it comes back with another one chuck it for sale.
 
pastymuncher said:
The newer version appears to be no better. Same oem, same specs.
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Well who knows who makes those low end units on sail now...
Brands seem to be switching OEMs so much in them.
It's like lottery...
Except when it comes to quality of capacitors which are chosen for cheap enough price.
 
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