Worth risking cheap PSU for 2/3 days?

Anxiety86 · 26 Oct 2015 at 09:44

My PSU 500w Corsair has stopped working. I have a cheap CIT 500w brand PSU that I could use until i get a new one in 2/3 days when I get money.

Is it worth the risk? I am getting withdrawals and need to game...

spoffle · 26 Oct 2015 at 09:49

Yes it'll be fine. People absolutely LOVE to overstate the importance of PS US.

ChugNorris · 26 Oct 2015 at 09:49

Do yourself a favour and throw the 250W CiT PSU in the bin. It's utter junk.

Anxiety86 · 26 Oct 2015 at 09:51

ChugNorris said:
Do yourself a favour and throw the 250W CiT PSU in the bin. It's utter junk.

Yeah it says 500w but it probably isn't.

spoffle said:
Yes it'll be fine. People absolutely LOVE to overstate the importance of PS US.

Not sure if srs

ChugNorris · 26 Oct 2015 at 09:51

spoffle said:
Yes it'll be fine. People absolutely LOVE to overstate the importance of PS US.

Not when it's a CiT PSU.

ChugNorris · 26 Oct 2015 at 09:52

Anxiety86 said:
Yeah it says 500w but it probably isn't.

No CiT PSU is the wattage it states.

Anxiety86 · 26 Oct 2015 at 09:53

Doesn't even have a 6 pin I would need to use a converter

spoffle · 26 Oct 2015 at 09:55

Anxiety86 said:
Yeah it says 500w but it probably isn't.

Not sure if srs

I'm being serious. People nearly always over state the importance of an expensive PSU, as if all of the cheaper ones just explode the moment you put any sort of load on them.

It's only a few days, it'll be fine to use or at least try out.

ChugNorris · 26 Oct 2015 at 09:55

Seriously, don't risk it.

spoffle · 26 Oct 2015 at 09:59

Please stop acting as if it's just gonna blow up, it's really disingenuous of you.

Justintime · 26 Oct 2015 at 09:59

spoffle said:
I'm being serious. People nearly always over state the importance of an expensive PSU, as if all of the cheaper ones just explode the moment you put any sort of load on them.

It's only a few days, it'll be fine to use or at least try out.

Its not only exploding, its undervoltage causing hard disk crashes/BSODs etc.. poor ripple control causing silent death of electronic parts, lack of protection for overload/overvoltage/short circuit etc.. Most don't blow up, they cause issues in other ways.

spoffle · 26 Oct 2015 at 10:00

Justintime said:
Its not only exploding, its undervoltage causing hard disk crashes/BSODs etc.. poor ripple control causing silent death of electronic parts, lack of protection for overload/overvoltage/short circuit etc..

Yes, which is a great argument for getting a quality PSU to run a system long term.

A cheap one for a few days isn't going to do anything bad.

Justintime · 26 Oct 2015 at 10:01

I'd tend to agree with that, though personally i wouldn't risk it myself.

spoffle · 26 Oct 2015 at 10:04

It's only a risk if it's long term

ChugNorris · 26 Oct 2015 at 10:22

spoffle said:
Please stop acting as if it's just gonna blow up, it's really disingenuous of you.

Sure, I'll just forget the fact I used to import all the CiT PSUs as part of my previous job and stop being disingenuous about it. OP, feel free to risk the rest of your system with that unit. It's only 3 days after all.

spoffle · 26 Oct 2015 at 10:25

Whilst ignoring the fact that you have got a vested interest in continuing on the fear mongering that goes on over even looking at a cheap PSU right in its fan grille.

NoNameNoNumber · 26 Oct 2015 at 10:29

Id run it... Maybe not for benching though.

ChugNorris · 26 Oct 2015 at 10:30

If a vested interest entails stopping a forum member potentially putting his system at risk then guilty as charged. It's entirely up to the OP what he does next, I've just made my opinion clear.

pastymuncher · 26 Oct 2015 at 10:34

spoffle said:
Yes, which is a great argument for getting a quality PSU to run a system long term.

A cheap one for a few days isn't going to do anything bad.

Are you going to cough up the money to replace his components if it does blow? We don't even know what it has to power. Your comments are extremely bad advice, especially as he may have a power hungry pc. That is a extremely poor quality psu that he has and the only suitable place for it is the bin.

OP, don't risk it, it's just not worth it.

spoffle · 26 Oct 2015 at 10:43

ChugNorris said:
If a vested interest entails stopping a forum member potentially putting his system at risk then guilty as charged. It's entirely up to the OP what he does next, I've just made my opinion clear.

Anyone speccing up some water cooling parts are doing the same thing, potentially putting their system at risk.

pastymuncher said:
Are you going to cough up the money to replace his components if it does blow? We don't even know what it has to power. Your comments are extremely bad advice, especially as he may have a power hungry pc. That is a extremely poor quality psu that he has and the only suitable place for it is the bin.

OP, don't risk it, it's just not worth it.

Stop being so dramatic. If it was particularly power hungry he wouldn't have a 500w PSU in the first place.

They aren't extremely bad advice, the problem is that you're just repeating learnt behavior, that cheap PSUs are bad no matter what.

As long as it's not utterly ragged to within an inch of its life it'll be fine. It's a few days, there isn't this massive risk you're gushing about.