Asrock DeskMeet return of the bad caps

[BigTroll]

I have had good luck with asrock products but with that said I ordered a DeskMeet X300 to use up some other components I had laying around Ryzen 3600 GTX 1060. it comes with a 500w power supply built by CWT.

I thought CWT would use good components but no the primary cap was ChengX and the secondary had lots of chengx and JunFu caps. hope it lasts awhile. I do have a 450w SFX silverstone with teapos on the secondary I could replace it with.

[dmill89]

Re: Asrock DeskMeet return of the bad caps

I have had good luck with asrock products but with that said I ordered a DeskMeet X300 to use up some other components I had laying around Ryzen 3600 GTX 1060. it comes with a 500w power supply built by CWT.

I thought CWT would use good components but no the primary cap was ChengX and the secondary had lots of chengx and JunFu caps. hope it lasts awhile. I do have a 450w SFX silverstone with teapos on the secondary I could replace it with.

CWT has always been known to use garbage tier caps in their more "budget oriented" power supplies (as well as many of the OEM units they build where cost is of course a factor). Some of their higher-end units use all Japanese caps though. All those failure-prone Antec Smart Power units with fuhjyyu caps from the early 2000s were built by CWT. They are generally decently built aside from the caps though.

Even Delta and Seasonic often use sub-par (though generally still a tier above what CWT uses) in many of their OEM power supplies.

[ChaosLegionnaire]

Re: Asrock DeskMeet return of the bad caps

yea thats the way it is in the psu market unfortunately... either pay a founders price for a japcap psu or be pounded by junk caps! hehehe!

I do have a 450w SFX silverstone with teapos on the secondary I could replace it with.

u still have it with the original caps? thought u would have recapped it after the warranty expired...

[dmill89]

Re: Asrock DeskMeet return of the bad caps

yea thats the way it is in the psu market unfortunately... either pay a founders price for a japcap psu or be pounded by junk caps! hehehe!

It has gotten somewhat better. 20 years ago, even the "top of the line" premium power supplies often used sub-par caps. Now at least the mid-level to high-end retail units generally use Japanese caps (probably largely thanks to the "capacitor plague" highlighting this issue and making "premium" caps a marketing point), though entry-level retail units and OEM units still often use lower quality caps.