Qtec explodes in a blaze of glory ...

Qtec's lol

I remember a long time back when they first appeared in the uk for about 40 notes for 600watter someone was trying to sell it on in the mm for about £100
lol

Advertised as gold plated and high spec, had a lot of people interested until we all found out about the "dangers of ownership" that comes with them :D

lol
 
I'm so glad I invested in a quality PSU. My PSU popped last week and no other components were affected - just dumped in a new PSU, turned her on and all was working :)
 
furnace said:
Yeah I'm waiting for the 8900 (as you may tell from the sig!)... although the rumours bouncing around recently have been saying the 8900 has been chopped and won't ever exist :( We shall see what happens eh! *fingers crossed*
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Its been delayed, for the simple reason that nvidia have no reason to release it until r600 appears. Nothing will happen untill r600 is released, and then everything will happen.
The entire ati line will be refreshed, on r600 launch day. The entire 8 series line up except the 8800 will also be released, and then the 8900 will be released to compete with r600.
 
Hornchurch said:
I would be majorly p'd off if a psu trashed my whole system! Thanks for the heads up atleast to steer clear of Qtec.
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Don't steer clear of Q-tec, steer clear of any psu which is not Antec, Enermax, Corsair, Seasonic, OCZ, FSP or Tagan.
Its not a q-tec only thing to kill components, its a cheap psu thing.
 
I asked a friend if he had a spare PSU once when my Enermax Liberty 500 died after a few weeks usage..he only had a gold QTEC 430watt psu.

There was no way I was going to test anything with that and I didn't want to tell him it was a POS because before he handed it to me he felt so proud it did him well for "years" :eek:

The next day I just bought the corsair HX520 and rma the enermax and sold the RMA a week later =]
 
mrk said:
I asked a friend if he had a spare PSU once when my Enermax Liberty 500 died after a few weeks usage..he only had a gold QTEC 430watt psu.

There was no way I was going to test anything with that and I didn't want to tell him it was a POS because before he handed it to me he felt so proud it did him well for "years" :eek:
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Tell him its a POS and he will thank you..................One day. :D

I normally tell it like it is, don't see any point in hiding the truth when it comes to psu's. Maybe something like...........


1. They have a bad reputation.
2. There is a high number of failures with Qtech.
3. Only good for old systems, pentium 3 etc....
4. They are about as reliable as Potterton boilers!
5. Only buy one for people you hate.
6. They are made of the same material used in Renault Clio Mark2 bonnet catches. :D
7. If you want to build a house on sand that's up to you.
8. Been there, done that. Paid the price!
9. Even china draw the line at manufacturing Qtech psu.
10. There is a very high number of failures with Qtech.
11. It's like rallying with no brakes!


I know 2 and 10 are the same but its worth saying twice!
 
Iirc, q-tec's are banned from a certain country...cant remember more than that. :(

They are fine as long as they are not under any form of medium-high load.

A pc that draws a pathetic amount of current, i.e pentium 2-3 with onboard graphics should be fine, anything more than that and its a no go really or your asking for trouble.
 
Mad_Jay said:
Well um ... Title says it all really :(

Last night during the england match my Qtec psu pops and takes my Cpu, Ram, Mobo, Gpu, Hard drives, Dvd rom drives etc etc out ..... *ouch* :eek:

I payed the price of owning a qtec.. And now im proper cheesed off :mad:

Anywho ... My mother being the kind soul she is, is buying me some new parts :D She payed for my sisters wedding and she says she owes me 1 :p

So anyway Could anyone spec me a rig for about £800 ?

I got Monitor, Keyboard, mouse etc etc, just need the good bits
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you could RMA some of your parts.. i believe OCZ rams are lifetime warranty..

your hdd might have some warranty left it you did not purchase them more than 3 yrs ago..
 
firewallblocked said:
Tell him its a POS and he will thank you..................One day. :D

I normally tell it like it is, don't see any point in hiding the truth when it comes to psu's. Maybe something like...........


1. They have a bad reputation.
2. There is a high number of failures with Qtech.
3. Only good for old systems, pentium 3 etc....
4. They are about as reliable as Potterton boilers!
5. Only buy one for people you hate.
6. They are made of the same material used in Renault Clio Mark2 bonnet catches. :D
7. If you want to build a house on sand that's up to you.
8. Been there, done that. Paid the price!
9. Even china draw the line at manufacturing Qtech psu.
10. There is a very high number of failures with Qtech.
11. It's like rallying with no brakes!


I know 2 and 10 are the same but its worth saying twice!
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lol :p

By the way, QTech != QTec

QTec are the cheap and nasty ones, QTech (QTechnology) apparently make rather good PSUs (Review here)
 
meh, firstly i wanted to point out the obvious, surely england are to blame ¬_¬ their crappy performances have finally had disastorous effects, we all saw it coming ;)



secondly, any psu can fail, failure rates probably aren't half as bad as you think, theres still a HUGE amount of people that have them, they were very very popular for people on a very small budget and when they were amongst the only people offering 500w models. i myself had a few, all worked, all are fine even now (though they sit on a shelf unused for 3-4 years :p ). yes they are cheap, no they can't do rated power but its very hard to even peak at 500W on a 8800 and c2d overclocked system

p2-3's didnt' use insanely smaller amounts of power, they were on made on massive processes and used umpteen billion volts to power. you needed a 350W psu 7 years ago, you really only need a little more than that now, and thats because gpu power has increased. but thats mainly down to actually increasing resolution meaning physically more power is needed. if we still played only at 1024x768 then we would only need 40-50w gpu's. if qtecs are find for old p3 systems they are fine for similarly powered c2d/am2 systems aswell. if you took an old p3 whacked in a pci(not e) 8800gtx card it would probo use similar power to what our systems are using now.


quite frankly, i've seen 100's of systems with qtec's in and very few fail. i've seen as many failures with lots of brands. you've got to remember, firstly because of value and lack of alternatives they literally shifted a gazillion of them, so you expect to hear about a lot more failing. same way we're hearing about hiper's failing(abeit exagerated amounts, i've yet to see 100's failing a week as 3-4 people here claim), but again due to price point and introduction into market when ocz, corsair and others weren't around they simply sell a shed load more than other psu's and therefore hear about more failing.


it doesn't matter if you have a qtec, a ocz, \ corsair or a pcp&c psu, if yours is the bloody one that fails it sucks.
 
Q-tec failure rates are probably about the same, perhaps a little higher than that of any other psu. Your missing the whole point.
The problem with Q-tec and all the other cheap rubbishy psus is that they very often kill the components attached to them when they die. An ocz, corsair or pcp&c etc psu will not do that when it dies.
 
The failure rates are so high largely due to the random numbers they come up with for the overall power rating. I doubt the 550W model can supply any more than 350W for any length of time, let alone 500W+, yet people see the high numbers and think a £15 PSU will be fine for an X2, 8800GTX and so on.
 
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