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February 25, 2013, 10:28:43 AM |
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Let me just say that I mostly use Thermaltake or XFX power supplys. In a last few days I had 3 650Ms die on me. The funny thing is thye are running 2x 7950s, properly undervolted, and memory lowered, so according to kill-a-watt, the whole rig is pulling 360W at the socket, so I dont think that is the issue. The temperature in the room is 16C, so that is ruled out as well. Any ideas, or just bad luck? I am also selling a lot of those PSUs, so this got me worried.
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Aseras
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February 25, 2013, 02:30:26 PM |
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I had one suddenly drop 16-18V out the pci-e power rails and cook a 5970. Otherwise it was fine.
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vdragon (OP)
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February 25, 2013, 10:12:54 PM |
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That I have seen with cheap power supplys. These are simpy dead, wont even spin the fan
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crashoveride54902
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February 26, 2013, 01:36:55 AM |
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Let me just say that I mostly use Thermaltake or XFX power supplys. In a last few days I had 3 650Ms die on me. The funny thing is thye are running 2x 7950s, properly undervolted, and memory lowered, so according to kill-a-watt, the whole rig is pulling 360W at the socket, so I dont think that is the issue. The temperature in the room is 16C, so that is ruled out as well. Any ideas, or just bad luck? I am also selling a lot of those PSUs, so this got me worried.
Thermaltake does great on cooling solutions...I've heard good reviews on them with psu when i was looking for an upgrade but there was a few negitive ones as well...so i decided on Seasonic...which maybe you should have gotten if you dropped that much coin on all those vid cards  |
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vdragon (OP)
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February 26, 2013, 01:45:37 AM |
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Seasonic is here hard to come by, and insanely expensive. And even if you pay the insane amount for it, if it dies, you have to wait a month or so for replacement. We have Enermax (I have a few of them), Thermaltake, XFX and Corsair mostly. Yeah, and I forgot Cheiftec and Coolermaster.
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crashoveride54902
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February 26, 2013, 02:13:04 AM |
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Seasonic is here hard to come by, and insanely expensive. And even if you pay the insane amount for it, if it dies, you have to wait a month or so for replacement. We have Enermax (I have a few of them), Thermaltake, XFX and Corsair mostly. Yeah, and I forgot Cheiftec and Coolermaster.
used seasonic's might be hard to find...but not new ones...but your right on the expensive part...I was really looking for a plat. psu that will pay for itself in savings on power bill...and the 7yr warranty doesn't hurt either...well if you have a psu or two for backup then it wouldn't really matter waiting a month or so for replacement hehe |
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vdragon (OP)
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February 26, 2013, 02:21:46 AM |
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I am not sure where you live, but some parts of Europe can be pretty distant for some computer goods, if you go through Hungarian search engines, you will see that there is little to none shops with Seasonics, and they mostly carry the cheapest ones... And I never buy used, I mentioned in another post that I bought everything new. And there is simply no need to bother with Seasonic and waiting when you have others at hand everyday.
Anyway I asked if anyone had problems, not for a lecture that I should have bought something else. I replaced them with XFX tonight (that was at hand), all done.
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deepceleron
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February 26, 2013, 02:45:48 AM |
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Thermaltake is just a company name slapped on PSUs manufactured by many different companies, so it is hard to make any generalizations about particular ones. It is better to recommend a company that actually manufactures it's own power supplies, so it's not just a front company that can disappear or rename itself after it has spoiled it's name by selling junk.
If you want to take apart and diagnose what failed on the power supplies (likely cheap Chinese capacitors) you won't be able to return them for warranty service. Typically if they have a one year warranty, the things will start exploding about 1.5 years in.
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vdragon (OP)
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February 26, 2013, 10:33:47 AM |
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I know that, but Thermaltake has been around for a really long long time. I have some of their models running 5970s form day one of bitcoin gpu mining, and they never failed. These Smart series are the first. The thing inside is manufactured by HEC, as I found out. Anyway, we have a saying here that "one swallow doesnt make a spring", so I will see what happens with the rest in the meantime since they didnt damage any of the equipment, they just stopped. You are right for the taking apart thing, they are under 5 year warranty here, altough it might be just a fuse or something not that serious
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vdragon (OP)
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March 01, 2013, 01:05:22 AM |
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Update, it was just a fuse on all of them. I took the kill-a-watt and measured voltage at the wall. Well, I had 175-240V ...
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