Puzzled By PSU's

Cyber-Mav said:
worst part about it is that i got 2 corsair psus and now im wondering if thier ticking time bombs. :(
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i know, you've said this in every thread regarding corsair psu's for the last week or so at least. if you are that worried, sell them and stop going on about it!

in the mean time, you have to remember, as ive said before, that the VX series are built using quality components. that is the difference between a seasonic/corsair VX and a tagan, hiper/q-tec ect. these are proper psu's.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
why is it that i wonder if they had the seasonic sticker on them they would not be failing as much with the corsair stickers on them? me thinks seasonic is offloading all its leftover stock to build psus for corsair.

not sure what sort of business seasonic would be running if they made psus the same quality as thier own but slapped on corsair stickers and sold them at a cheaper price than seasonic branded stuff.

all these reports of corsair failures are not damaging seasonics reputation since the seasonic stickers are not on the psu.
thing is there are a few failures on this forum, but scouring the net looking on other forums such as hardocp, anandtech, XS etc also have reports of corsair failures.

worst part about it is that i got 2 corsair psus and now im wondering if thier ticking time bombs. :(
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What on gods name are you talking about?

A couple of PSUs fail so what it happens, dosent mean they are all complete carp.

You go on about this all te time, hush already.
 
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the shadow said:
so i just bought the hx520 yesterday and now some are saying its gonna go boom:o
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There’s only been a couple of reports on here of these blowing up as far as I’ve seen. When you compare that to the number of units sold every day its very unlikely you will have any trouble.
 
the shadow said:
so i just bought the hx520 yesterday and now some are saying its gonna go boom:o
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Oh pelase, some of you people need to get some prespective on the whole, some hardware componets fail matter.

People arnt exactly going to post that every single pice of hardware they get works are they now.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
lets hope so. on component quality alone corsair shoudl have far more reliability than other brands such as hiper and possibly qtec :p.
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No its not lets hope so, thats the truth.

If a company sells a lot of one particular product, their going to be more failures so more posts compared to that of a company that dosen't sell near that many product.
 
Kobrakai said:
The Enermax Infiniti series have 3x12v rails @ 28A = 84A total.
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It doesn't give 84A in total, you don't add up the rails.

Total watts provided by all 12v rails / 12 = Total amps. So in the case of the 720 infinity it's 672/12 = 56A.
 
stickroad said:
No its not lets hope so, thats the truth.

If a company sells a lot of one particular product, their going to be more failures so more posts compared to that of a company that dosen't sell near that many product.
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Well ive been thiking that corair have made a bad batch hence all the ones currently going pop.

You all keep saying they make lots so obiously there will be some failures but the point is there is rarely any failures infact i have never seen a corair psu fail reported on here. Hence all the ones on otherforums as well makes me think theres a bad batch. You cannot argue and say its expected when all of a sudden lots of recorded failures out of nowhere.
 
it is a bit worrying i do agree. bad batches happen and hopefully that isnt the case. i said before, my abit ip35-pro went bang and i know why - they didnt do a good job of inspecting the soldering after the board was flowed and there's some components that werent soldered. its no biggy though, and id still recommend them despite what happend to mine (and the fact it took me 2 hours to get the board in my htpc and another to take it back out again). damn you abit, DAMN YOOOOOU:mad:

anyway yes, mistakes happen unfortunately
 
james.miller said:
i know, you've said this in every thread regarding corsair psu's for the last week or so at least. if you are that worried, sell them and stop going on about it!

in the mean time, you have to remember, as ive said before, that the VX series are built using quality components. that is the difference between a seasonic/corsair VX and a tagan, hiper/q-tec ect. these are proper psu's.
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I don't think Hipers are quite in the same category as q-tec now are they? Bit of a silly thing to say. It is purely down to the amount of forum members that have bought them. Corsairs (Like Hipers before them) are the PSU everybody seems to recommend in these 'spec me up' threads. Of course you are going to see some fail. People aren't going to post a message to say their PSU hasn't failed now are they? The reality is that these corsair PSU's aren't really any better / worse than the Hipers.
 
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