This power supply is about 3 months old, you guessed it, roasted caps. I was repairing a PC for a woman, who was told by billy joe bob fly-by-night working out of his parent's garage PC tech that the power supply in her PC was bad. After waiting over a month for him to replace it, she brings the PC to me, along with the "high quality" power supply he sold her for $100.00. The PSU was new, still sealed in the box, cables all banded up, so atleast I know he didn't slip her a used one. Anyway, I swapped the PSU's out for her, PC worked again, and she went on her way.
She calls me Tuesday, just mad as hell, telling me when she hits the power on her PC, it comes on, and then immediately shuts back off. She claims she has to hit the power button 10-15 times before it'll actually stay on, She continues on to say that she'll be in the middle of doing something, and the power just shuts off, and it won't come back on at all. She brings it over, and sure enough, she's telling the truth. The system was a P4 2.6GHz, 512mb RAM, onboard everything, pretty simple system....
Of course that PSU was my first suspect, so with her standing right here, I removed it and opened the PSU, and sure enough.........roasted caps. This brand is a new one on me, I've never seen them before. The primary HV filters are fuckyou brand, no surprise there, but the secondaries are all "CHMEC" brand, one I've never seen before. Normally, I recap PSU's and reuse them, but I wasn't even messing with this shoddy pile of shit. It claims to be a 500 Watt, yet I've seen heftier heatsinks, FET's, and regulation on a cheap-o 300 watter...
I had a new Enlight 450 watt supply lying around that I bought for someone and ended up not using, so I sold her that one, installed, PC worked great again. I explained to her the shoddy garbage that other guy sold her (which made her even more angry). She insisted that she was going to take that PSU over to his house and shove it where the sun don't shine. Before she left with it, I asked if I could take a few pics of it.
This is the worst I've ever seen, even worse than a Deer or a powmax..... The absolute most shoddy cheap piece of garbage PSU I've ever encountered! It lived a little over 2 months in a normal working environment, powered up maybe 3~4 hours a day (according to her). PC had above average cooling, and all fans were working. It didn't overheat.
She calls me Tuesday, just mad as hell, telling me when she hits the power on her PC, it comes on, and then immediately shuts back off. She claims she has to hit the power button 10-15 times before it'll actually stay on, She continues on to say that she'll be in the middle of doing something, and the power just shuts off, and it won't come back on at all. She brings it over, and sure enough, she's telling the truth. The system was a P4 2.6GHz, 512mb RAM, onboard everything, pretty simple system....
Of course that PSU was my first suspect, so with her standing right here, I removed it and opened the PSU, and sure enough.........roasted caps. This brand is a new one on me, I've never seen them before. The primary HV filters are fuckyou brand, no surprise there, but the secondaries are all "CHMEC" brand, one I've never seen before. Normally, I recap PSU's and reuse them, but I wasn't even messing with this shoddy pile of shit. It claims to be a 500 Watt, yet I've seen heftier heatsinks, FET's, and regulation on a cheap-o 300 watter...
I had a new Enlight 450 watt supply lying around that I bought for someone and ended up not using, so I sold her that one, installed, PC worked great again. I explained to her the shoddy garbage that other guy sold her (which made her even more angry). She insisted that she was going to take that PSU over to his house and shove it where the sun don't shine. Before she left with it, I asked if I could take a few pics of it.
This is the worst I've ever seen, even worse than a Deer or a powmax..... The absolute most shoddy cheap piece of garbage PSU I've ever encountered! It lived a little over 2 months in a normal working environment, powered up maybe 3~4 hours a day (according to her). PC had above average cooling, and all fans were working. It didn't overheat.
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" like him make it look bad for the rest of us, although sometimes there just no convincing people to buy something of quality
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