The truth about Hiper 580w PSU's WARNING LARGE PICS

Cyber-Mav · 30 Sep 2007 at 22:44

ok, iv started this thread which will hopefully help to identify or work out why the 580w hiper psu's keep blowing up, well the newer batches mostly.
normally i would resize the pics for forums to 1024x768 but due to the nature of this thread i need to keep original size to help identify components better. hopefully this will not be too much of an issue for speed, if it slows down loading i can just hotlink the pics insted of embedding them.
first the warning, large pics are gonna be comming. this psu iv taken pictures of is currently working, has probably been used for less than 2 hours and is a very new one, was bought from the shop a month ago my my mate.

Cyber-Mav · 30 Sep 2007 at 22:46

ok those pics are up now. as you guys can see the new psu is a lot lighter than the older 580w ones. the heatsinks are totally different. dunno if someone can identofy those brands of capacitors though, all i can see is the primary which is 330uf 400v rated at 85c

Cyber-Mav · 30 Sep 2007 at 23:02

now taken form the johnny guru review of a 580w hiper done last year august time:
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story2&reid=16

we can see there is a lot more stuff inside the psu compared to the newer one iv opened up.

as mentioned above by willhub, both type-R and type-M have both the same internals, just one has modular connectiosn the other one has non modular. very big difference in quality there.
in the johnnyguru review the old primary caps were rated to 105c too.

Cyber-Mav · 1 Oct 2007 at 00:06

if anyone has opened up the older psu, can they comment on how this newer one is compared to the older ones?

Cyber-Mav · 1 Oct 2007 at 00:26

flibby said:
Remove the "Matsu" and "a" and it could explain why they all keep blowing up

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Cyber-Mav · 1 Oct 2007 at 01:48

who is the OEM for hiper? well for that psu iv opend up above? iv not seen that design before, does seem quite empty and some of those heatsink, just a metal plate don;t look too good to me.

just need someone else to open up an older unit now and take a look inside.

Cyber-Mav · 20 Jan 2008 at 02:18

old thread i know, but if anyone has a blown up hiper 580w before you bin it open it up and show us some pics, would like to see how it looks compared to the one above, if its a new design or the older one.