Most reliable PSU ?

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The item that seems to fail most often for me appears to be the PSU's
So rather than just eanie meanie miney mo one from the OcUK stores, I thought I'd ask you lot first.
Past PSU's that I can remember have been

PC Power and Cooling
Antec Blue power
Antec True power
Q-Tec :o
All have let go at one stage or another.

Now I come home tonight to find my Enermax Liberty has just gone out in a fanfare of sparks and smoke. :(

Where next people?
:(
 
corsair seem to be the bulkyest ones.. meaning quality (i should hope for the price anyway)

also going above the maximum wattage you will pull should help reliability as its not going to be at its limit 24/7
 
:o

It's not a power hungry machine.
Core2 duo I think (forgotten),X1650 graphics card, couple of HDD's, 2Gbs of Corsair XMS2. all bolted to a Intel D975XBX (badaxe?? i think)
 
Seasonic> Enemax>corsair. But a lot of corsair and enemax psu's are rebranded seasonic ones as well. Might also point out i've had a seasonic psu die on me.
 
No matter, I googled seasonic and ended up in the rainforest.

One " 'Seasonic X-460FL 460W ATX Fanless Case' by Seasonic' " ordered

cheers guys..

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I don't know power requirements of your rig, but would have maybe gone for X-660. When looking at prices the X660 was only a little more then 460FL.

I have the older X-650 and it's totally passive in my rig, infact I've never once had the fan on. Even on the hottest day, other then normal thermal up-draft, not even a hint of air moving from it.

Other thing on the Seasonic X's. The output is very stable, my whole rig is under volted, memory at 1.3v, motherboard chipset down as low as it can, CPU under volted. Been running like this for ages totally solid. I had a OCZ 600w prior, and could not under volt the same. Great PSU's, it's a shame OCUK don't sell them.
 
Can't fault the PSU in my sig.
Has run faultlessly for coming up to three years now.
Whisper quiet as well.
 
If youve had that many PSUs fail, Id think you have other problems, Ive been running a PC P&C PSU for as long as I can remember, no failiures, so to have 4 failiures is either exceptionally unlucky, youd have more chance winning lottery, or you have some other issue, which Id hazard a guess at being power into the machine, are you running through a decent surge protector as a minimum?
 
Antec, UK based RMA with a direct replacment service.
How happy you going to feel if your new £60-£80 PSU goes pop after a month or two if it costs £40 to snd it back to Holland?
 
95thrifles said:
If youve had that many PSUs fail, Id think you have other problems, Ive been running a PC P&C PSU for as long as I can remember, no failiures, so to have 4 failiures is either exceptionally unlucky, youd have more chance winning lottery, or you have some other issue, which Id hazard a guess at being power into the machine, are you running through a decent surge protector as a minimum?
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I'm not talking over a five minute period here.
This is throughout the history of my PC building for the last ten years or so.
So it's nowt to do with any particular rig set up.
Some have been servers in the attic, some have been gaming rigs, some have been just to support software for external apparatus.

Yea I do run a surge protector, one of OcUK's Belkin 8 way ones.
I can't even find a receipt for this one so it must be oooold.
 
95thrifles said:
Still, even in ten years, 4 PSUs = 2 1/2 yr life span which is very poor
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If you are taking it as one PC being replaced by another, then another etc then yes but I'm talking multiple PC's all on, over the same period.
The attic one for e.g. is my server and it's on 24/7/365.
Used to have a gaming rig in the cinema room and general desktop in the living room, oh and one in the bedroom :o
 
Scubascorpion said:
This is throughout the history of my PC building for the last ten years or so.
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Your question implies you want to eliminate the problem. For example, too much power demanded from a power supply never causes power supply failure. As was true with supplies long before the IBM PC existed.

Best evidence is the dead body. What failed? Most would not even know what to look for. Most computer techs do not have sufficient electrical knowledge to provide a useful answer. Best is to find someone who really does know how electricity works. Identify the internal part that actually failed. Only then can an answer based in facts be provided. Finding someone who can actually do that may be difficult. Without that fact, then every answer will only be wild speculation.

Solve the problem by identifying what is actually failing. Nothing inside the computer can cause a properly designed supply to fail.
 
I'm not saying anything was wrong with any of the PSU's I've owned, or the power supply into the PC.
I was enquiring as to which ones people felt were most rock solid so that it would last a long time. Nothing more, nothing less.
 
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