[Ian]

It's been a long time since I've had a PSU die on me, but on Sat morning it decided to blow for no obvious reason. At the time I bought the components for my PC, the PSU I wanted was out of stock so I settled for a Xilence PSU (which I thought must be half decent after reading the specs, and looking at the price!). Not ideal, but I thought it would have to do unless I wanted to wait another week.

Anyway, got myself a "PC Power and Cooling 610W" PSU now, which is supposed to be very good Let's hope this one lasts a bit longer

[itsme]

If you can get one that is?

[psd99]

I remember Postill (wherever he may be) writing me a big set of writing in RED to throw away my QTECH power supply

it damaged my motherboard I was too late. It's imperative to have a very good power supply unit.

[floppybootstomp]

Only make of PSU that's failed on me in twelve years has been Antec - three of them.

Even the cheapo Jeantech brand PSU's from PC World have been good (except for one which I had to repair) and I still have a Jeantech 350W in my media machine, must be at least five years old now.

Needless to say I don't buy Antec PSU's anymore.

[Ian]

Originally Posted by floppybootstomp

Only make of PSU that's failed on me in twelve years has been Antec - three of them.

Even the cheapo Jeantech brand PSU's from PC World have been good (except for one which I had to repair) and I still have a Jeantech 350W in my media machine, must be at least five years old now.

Needless to say I don't buy Antec PSU's anymore.

Three Antecs? Ouch! I think I'll be wary about choosing one of those then.

The last one that blew up for me (before the Xilence), was a QTEC one I think.

[Waynos_Face]

I had an ezcool for about 5 weeks before it died, have aquired an OCZ GameXstream 600W, very very quiet, the last one must have been noisy as i can hear my heatsink now.

[V_R]

Bad news Ian, at least it didn't take any other components with it!

[Ian]

Originally Posted by V_R

Bad news Ian, at least it didn't take any other components with it!

Yep, it was a nervous few seconds when I plugged the new one in and hoping it worked!

[Nobody in particular]

My old computer had a crap PSU, so I decided to change it, but the new PSU was too powerful for the Mobo so when I turned it on it knackered my Mobo and HDD

I wont be doing that again lol.

[floppybootstomp]

Originally Posted by Nobody in particular

My old computer had a crap PSU, so I decided to change it, but the new PSU was too powerful for the Mobo so when I turned it on it knackered my Mobo and HDD

I wont be doing that again lol.

Sorry, but that's impossible. Electrical and Electronic devices will only draw the current they need, just because a power supply supplies a certain amount of current doesn't mean it will dump all that current at once.

No, something was faulty in your setup for that to happen.