Hey guys, this is kinda weird for corsair, especially for this high class of a PSU. I have a Corsair HX750, which if I remember correctly, I paid 250$ for, Newegg has them listed for 260. It's a really fine PSU, pics below show the amazing build of this thing, except I didn't pull the board (yet).
This one is about 2-3 years old, used to run a BTC miner, now runs my gaming pc. Well, as of a few weeks ago, my USB ports were getting funky, then out of nowhere they'd shut off and unless I unplugged everything from the mobo, I didn't get them back. I could leave small things like a mouse or keybo, but anything high draw like a network adapter, external hard drive etc, wouldn't let them come back. So I ran some voltage testing annnnnnnnd:
4.37V under small load.
Obvious problem there.
Well, I opened the case, all voltage regulators seemed fine, nothing obviously wrong at first glance so I tore it apart and nothing. Then I went to the PSU after still not seeing anything wrong, plus this was an Asus board which I religiously use because I never have problems.
So I get the PSU open and hey! Looking good with all those japanese caps, NCC and Panny's all around, nice! No bad caps here. Except... I started wiggling things around to check for loose components, and I'd have to say 2/6 caps were freely moving, and could be pulled up on to move around in the solder joint, as the joints had gone cold. More wiggling of components also yielded a slightly loose heatsink that could move a good 3-5mm. There's a couple small boards near the output, those were pretty sturdy and fine.
However, if you look down by where the 12v wires connect, there's an obvious lack of solder on the traces as they're not even filled.
I have to say I'm disappointed with Corsair, in another threat I talked about how I have an RM1000, a much newer PSU, maybe 1 year and a half old, it's filled with Taicon and CapXon caps, and that's a 284$ power supply on Newegg.
Is it just me, or is corsair's quality starting to go down the toilet?
This one is about 2-3 years old, used to run a BTC miner, now runs my gaming pc. Well, as of a few weeks ago, my USB ports were getting funky, then out of nowhere they'd shut off and unless I unplugged everything from the mobo, I didn't get them back. I could leave small things like a mouse or keybo, but anything high draw like a network adapter, external hard drive etc, wouldn't let them come back. So I ran some voltage testing annnnnnnnd:
4.37V under small load.
Obvious problem there.
Well, I opened the case, all voltage regulators seemed fine, nothing obviously wrong at first glance so I tore it apart and nothing. Then I went to the PSU after still not seeing anything wrong, plus this was an Asus board which I religiously use because I never have problems.
So I get the PSU open and hey! Looking good with all those japanese caps, NCC and Panny's all around, nice! No bad caps here. Except... I started wiggling things around to check for loose components, and I'd have to say 2/6 caps were freely moving, and could be pulled up on to move around in the solder joint, as the joints had gone cold. More wiggling of components also yielded a slightly loose heatsink that could move a good 3-5mm. There's a couple small boards near the output, those were pretty sturdy and fine.
However, if you look down by where the 12v wires connect, there's an obvious lack of solder on the traces as they're not even filled.
I have to say I'm disappointed with Corsair, in another threat I talked about how I have an RM1000, a much newer PSU, maybe 1 year and a half old, it's filled with Taicon and CapXon caps, and that's a 284$ power supply on Newegg.
Is it just me, or is corsair's quality starting to go down the toilet?
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