Antec EA-500D Question

[mockingbird]

I found one of these in the trash yesterday and all I could find was a review of the EA500 and not the newer Delta-designed model.

jonnyguru reviewed the 650w model but I heard they're not the same.

Does anyone know what caps this PSU uses?

Thanks

[mockingbird]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

I'll answer this myself.

Two main ones are SamXons.

The rest is a combo of G-Luxon, Capxon, and other drek.

[370forlife]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

I think you mean "Trec" these are also used in Sirtec built OCZ's.

Wow, antec has really tuned down the quality of caps used in these units. The first ones came with UCC, rubycon, and Ltec.

[mockingbird]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

I think you mean "Trec" these are also used in Sirtec built OCZ's.

Wow, antec has really tuned down the quality of caps used in these units. The first ones came with UCC, rubycon, and Ltec.

No, by other "drek" i meant other garbage.

I think there was one UCC in there. The "D" denotes Delta.

The soldering is very good and I think they only use the lousy caps for secondary filtering.

Should be ok for me, I plan to run some Phenom system with a 2900XT. Nothing too power hungry.

[ratdude747]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

make the crap caps go away and you will have a nice solid unit.

[370forlife]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

No, by other "drek" i meant other garbage.

I think there was one UCC in there. The "D" denotes Delta.

The soldering is very good and I think they only use the lousy caps for secondary filtering.

Should be ok for me, I plan to run some Phenom system with a 2900XT. Nothing too power hungry.

I would be much more concerned with the quality of the secondaries than with the quality of the primaries. Not like they are canicon or Asia-x, but I would do a recap in no more than a year just as a preventive measure.

[mockingbird]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

I would be much more concerned with the quality of the secondaries than with the quality of the primaries. Not like they are canicon or Asia-x, but I would do a recap in no more than a year just as a preventive measure.

Lemme crack this thing open again and post here what's inside:

I just have to say the soldering is impeccable. Very clean job.

Upon inspection, the mofsets are screwed on to the heatsinks *cough*corsair*cough*

There are three large coils on the PSU and two small ones on the seperate PCB that's screwed back side up to the top of the PSU.

Caps:

2x Samxon "HWDB" caps (These are the large ones, I can't read the specs on them)
1 UCC KZH

ahhh, I give up I can't see anything, I'd have to take it apart to figure it out. I'd rather jonnyguru did it.

[mockingbird]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

I just want to add this thing DOES indeed look very well built and warrants a review of its own.

[Toasty]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

I knew exactly what he meant. LOL! - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/DREK

PCBONEZ had a post in here somewhere about the new Antec Delta Earthwatts with the same old crap caps. Put the good stuff out at first, get the reviews, then pull back and start cutting pennies everywhere. I posted a few pics in that thread from when my one of my SP2 450w was RMA'd. Same-old, same-old. It's more business for us!

Sorry, I did not tear the thing apart and make a list of the caps.

[Toasty]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

Found it. It was buried in a Bestec thread from last month: (start at post #17)

https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8017

Here's 2 pics from mine. Does it look like yours mockingbird?





Toast

[mockingbird]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

Yes. Identical. Care to review?

[Toasty]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

Other than what has been said, I don't have any opinion that varies.

It appears well built, it is functioning properly and has been running my P4 3.6GHz "gaming" system without any issues for near 8 months, 24/7. The system is folding (CPU & GPU) when not in "play" mode so it runs a bit warmer than most. A good stress test on the caps I would think.

I figure on pulling it sometime in the late winter or early spring for a visual and load test/ripple inspection, unless it incurs a problem before then.

If anyone is going to rip it apart and give us the skinny, I would think that 370forlife or Oklahoma Wolf would be the ones to do it. PCBONEZ has alerted us to the potential problems with the caps. If anyone who does this on a daily basis starts seeing these as fails, I'm sure we'll know soon enough.

Toast

[PCBONEZ]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

I have an EA-650 and an EA-380 coming in just because I want to peak inside.
Probably be a week or two before they get here and I have a chance to look inside.
.

[mockingbird]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

I have an EA-650 and an EA-380 coming in just because I want to peak inside.
Probably be a week or two before they get here and I have a chance to look inside.
.

The Delta Antec EA-650 is not a good comparison because it is a different design.

[PCBONEZ]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

I'm not comparing them.
I want to peek inside to see what Antec is up to.
Odds are it's no good.
.

[370forlife]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

I'm not comparing them.
I want to peek inside to see what Antec is up to.
Odds are it's no good.
.

Good, the JG review came out when they were new(er) so you can compare the caps that way if you want. Also willing to bet antec probably makes a special run with higher grade caps and other parts to send out to reviewers.

[kc8adu]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

my first question to the o.p is why it was tossed in the first place.in a pc that was bad in some other way or alone?
and the reviewers have to be careful about mfr provided samples as otherwise they may get the so called "golden sample" rather than what you will get when you order one from newegg or buy at some shop.

[mockingbird]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

my first question to the o.p is why it was tossed in the first place.in a pc that was bad in some other way or alone?
and the reviewers have to be careful about mfr provided samples as otherwise they may get the so called "golden sample" rather than what you will get when you order one from newegg or buy at some shop.

Someone threw out an older computer, had an Intel D865Perl motherboard, P4 2.8 Preshot, 1gb ram, but this power supply was inexplicably driving it.

What he would need with two 6 pin PCI-e connectors or the extra 4 pins on the ATX connector, or the 8 pin "Xeon" connector for that matter on a system that was maybe pulling 250-300 watts I have no idea.

My guess is this guy was another one of those maven enthusiasts who like LEDs and cases with windows (This case in fact has a window but it is as cheap as hell) and his PC broke and the guy at the store told him to replace his PSU.

G-D must have been listening to my prayers because I just bought a "broken" 2900XT off eBay for $20 and I was praying that I would come across such a find because of the 2900XTs power requirements.

[kc8adu]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

its ok to say god.
this is one of few boards where we dont seem to need censorware.oops [censored]

[Oklahoma Wolf]

Re: Antec EA-500D Question

and the reviewers have to be careful about mfr provided samples as otherwise they may get the so called "golden sample" rather than what you will get when you order one from newegg or buy at some shop.

I haven't gotten a golden sample yet that can be proven as such. I have gotten brown samples though - units that will not meet the 80 Plus certification levels they're supposed to have.

In fact, my very next review is of a unit that was supposed to do Bronze and instead totally bombed out of 80 Plus altogether. Actually, it came close to simulating a miniature bomb as well when heated. Should be a fun review to write if I can ever un-lazy myself and get started.