The 'Hiper-Explosive' Club
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Caporegime
I just found out about these, was going to swap a qtec 500w with one for a spare c2d pc i have, the question is which is the worse psu between the two!?
Both to be avoided
I might favor the Hyper PSU if theres no other option.
Both to be avoided
I might favor the Hyper PSU if theres no other option.
It's worked fine all these years in the family pc, i just wanted something a bit quieter for my spare pc, i found out the qtec was a load of rubbish years ago but looking at the hyper it's actually quite nice, shame really.
Soldato
Sold my hiper to a friend a year or so ago. It recently went bang so feeling a little guilty 
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This thread... Amazing
I remember this PSU
I remember this PSU
Caporegime
I sold my Hyper along with an Athlon 64 system years ago, I wonder where the Hyper Type R 580W is now, maybe it's still working!
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I seriously doubt it! lol
Thread revival!
(& I haven't posted here in ages!)
Thread revival!
(& I haven't posted here in ages!)
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Lol, amazing thread!
Count me in, mine blew many years back.
Still have the car-battery style box it came in - use it to hold pc building odds and ends
Count me in, mine blew many years back.
Still have the car-battery style box it came in - use it to hold pc building odds and ends
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Mine never blew but I too still have the box for keeping my screws and stuff in!
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Lol I've still got mine - worked great in a variety of systems until around 2010 when a combination of needing different connectors and more power forced an upgrade.
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Yea, I was going to say I bet almost no one is using them now anyway.
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When mine blew they sent out a replacement. I just plugged it into the wall and provided power to it (not in a computer) and immediately it was squealing like crazy. Sent that one back too!
Well, über crap Fuhjyyu capped PSUs of one time were also very reliably unreliable.
Remember helping one neighbour to choose parts and then assemble photoshopping PC telling that bundled PSU of Sonata II was such.
Then five months later got call that pressing PC's power button had given some muffled popping noise from PSU.
Caporegime
My Type R 580W was great really.
Maybe they constructed it wrong and accidentally took parts from better parts bag.
If that PC has some value above paper weight would be good to check insides of PSU for bulging capacitors.
(that would be sure sign of them being well into failing process)
Detach power cord from wall and press power button couple times (like when starting PC) to lower charge in PSU's capacitors.
Then waiting over night/for day before opening PSU would be second safety precaution to let capacitors leak their charge further.
My Hiper Type R Machine got upgraded and I am still getting crashes within WoW (yes, this is just an office machine but I do play WoW on it too).
Similar crashing within WoW but I get a BSOD instead now instead of what I thought was VRAM failure in my old 4890 GPU. As the system now has an APU (3200G), i'm attributing it to the 12v to from the PSU dropping during load.
Took the type R apart yesterday and one of the big caps is bulging. Replacement time.
Similar crashing within WoW but I get a BSOD instead now instead of what I thought was VRAM failure in my old 4890 GPU. As the system now has an APU (3200G), i'm attributing it to the 12v to from the PSU dropping during load.
Took the type R apart yesterday and one of the big caps is bulging. Replacement time.
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I remember my Hiper; it was so cool