Hiper PSU's

tatts · 18 Jul 2008 at 22:03

azab350 said:
seems to me like just the PSU will conk, and if thats the case, a Thermaltake 1500W will be lowered in via industrial crane into the base of my rig, thus, laying foundations and preventing me moving it for some time....

If it's the toughpower then i would much rather spend that kind of money on a seasonic or enermax galaxy

Ben M · 18 Jul 2008 at 23:04

azab350 · 18 Jul 2008 at 23:23

Hmm nice picture there....does she come free or extra with that PSU?

Moeks · 18 Jul 2008 at 23:38

mikeo said:
Moeks

Not wish to disrespect you but...

Not quite sure I'd agree with putting Tagan in the "used to be good" category.

As far as I'm aware, they are a relatively new company (founded 2001/2 I think) and I was under the impression that their products had improved over the years.

I can only speak from my own personal point of view. And I think the current BZ series are a step up from the previous modular ones (and I've had both). The reviews on the whole seem more favourable. Though I have seen one comment about that secondary capacitors and the tester was a little concerned that they were not a make he recognised. And into this some people seem to have read that they have "poor build quality". This article then goes on to test the BZ past the point that a lot of PSU's go "pop" (and in the real world, no one will ever get close to this) and it passed with flying colours and gets a recommended award. It certainly swung the sale for me.

Now I'm not saying that no Tagan ever fails, I'm not that much of a "fan boy" but then again, even the premier brands have problems at times.

In the end, you pays your money and takes your chance (pretty much like life in general).

That's fair enough, only reason I said they 'used' to be good, is because when we first started hearing about and were able to get Tagan psu's around here, they were good indeed, I used a couple of them back around 4-5 years ago for machines I built for other people, all still working now so far as I am aware. I just haven't had any recent experience or read any recent reviews of them, and as we all know, things change fast in the world of computer hardware, not always for the better either. So based on me not being sure about their current state, I listed them with the proviso, that I knew they 'used' to be good. I'm not saying they aren't now, I don't really know how good they are these days.