Antec SmartPower P.O.S

[bgavin]

Re: Antec SmartPower P.O.S

It should be quite obvious from all these posts that Antec sucks.

Walk away, never look back, and be better off as a result. I've been doing modest Sparkle supplies at $29 USD from Newegg. They are easy to recap and offer lots of room and a nice 120mm fan. They are not high end supplies, but work well for the needs of the typical business user.

Those wanting premium cap supplies can look at Seasonic. They seem to offer high end designs with good caps, and at a very high price.

Antec will often honor an RMA if you tell them specifically the PSU has Fuhkyoo caps installed, and several are bulging/leaking. They gave me an RMA for one, which I blew off when I found out the replacement was coming with just as many bad caps.

Bye, bye, Antec.

[Spacedye69]

Re: Antec SmartPower P.O.S

I like my recaped Antecs.

[gastorgrab]

Re: Antec SmartPower P.O.S

This is yet another reason i question the power supply;




I thought that a 400 watt power suppy would be more than adequate for a micro ATX mb. Nothing should be in the red.
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[Per Hansson]

Re: Antec SmartPower P.O.S

Might just be usless software

Check with a Multimeter if you want any reliable readings

[gastorgrab]

Re: Antec SmartPower P.O.S

Might just be usless software

Check with a Multimeter if you want any reliable readings

I just ordered one of these; http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16899705003

If this won't work, i intend to buy a power supply entension and 'tee' into it. But then i'll have to trust the results of a multimeter built by 'the lowest bidder'.

Ordered one of these at the same time; http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817372001

I'm getting tired of working on this thing.
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[squall_leonhart]

Re: Antec SmartPower P.O.S

Antec smartpower, smartpower 2, truepower, and truepower 2 PSUs have crap caps in them (fuhjyyu). The truepower trio, quattro, and neoHE series are fine. Their basiq series are OK as well.

You can recap the bad cap PSUs and have a decent PSU. I've recapped 2 antecs so far and they work great now. I have a 3rd waiting for a recap. All of them are over 4 years old (two are at least 5 if not older).

Sorry for zombie thread.

the Quattro is NOT fine. A friend has just had his die bad caps style. they may be lasting longer then previously, but they still aren't good enough.

system in question is

Antec 900/Antec Truepower Quattro 1000W/eVGA 780i SLI/Windows XP Media SP2 & Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit SP1/Intel Core 2 Duo E8400@3.0Ghz/eVGA e-Geforce GTX280 1GB DDR3/Creative SB X-Fi XtremeGamer/Corsiar XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400 DDR2/Dual WD Caviar SE16 500GB 7200RPM HDDs

I don't consider the PSU to be overloaded at all.

[Per Hansson]

Re: Antec SmartPower P.O.S

Wow, that's some news (welcome to badcaps btw!)
Do you have some pictures to confirm this? What brand of caps did they use this time? Even more Fuhjyyu or did they go further down the list to GSC / Evercon / SACON / Capsun or whatever they decided to name that company this week?

[Oklahoma Wolf]

Re: Antec SmartPower P.O.S

The Quattros are Enhance built. They'll all be Teapo on the secondary. I don't often hear complaints about these going out... one unit's failure doesn't mean we're back in the Fuhjyyu dark ages on these.

I'm still more concerned about the OST caps in the older Earthwatts and True Trio models than I am with the Teapo stuff in the Quattros.