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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: peruvianpisco on July 08, 2005, 17:16

Title: Power supply
Post by: peruvianpisco on July 08, 2005, 17:16

I recently read Power supply take few attention at the time of buld a PC..but i think my mobos got problems with capacitors, which inflate like a globe and other faults.
Please, i wanna know about quality Power supplies if it was the case, i found a few sites, the people i know changes it every 2 years, i didn`t know that, till now that i got almost my 5 PC bad :cry:  ( i had a very-very small business based on cyber internet).
I got I-Chia power supply, 350 w max, is it the brand ?
Thank you in advance :)

Title: Power supply
Post by: Sandra on July 08, 2005, 17:44

I dont know much about power sullpies apart from the cheaper ones are often very noisy and the dearer ones tend to be quieter.

As long as you have a 350 watt or bigger PSU then I would have thought that you should be ok no matter which make.

The people who change them every 2 years do they say its because they get noisy after that or that they think the output varies after 2 years  :?

Title: Power supply
Post by: sam on July 08, 2005, 18:24

if the output varied of such a short timescale then they would all be sent back to the manufactuers as faulty!! so it is people being illogically paranoid!

Title: Power supply
Post by: peruvianpisco on July 09, 2005, 15:41

Ok, thanks, i think so, it varies maybe...it is a low investment so i am gonna change it every such time

Title: Power supply
Post by: Sandra on July 09, 2005, 15:56

Capacitors that "blow up" as you describe or pop the ends off are often cheap ones that arent really made to take the heat for as long as they should and manufacturers really should upgrade them.

The same thing happens with the capacitors in the power supplies of Sky satellite boxes, the capacitors arent really up to the job and tend to fail after a couple of years, usually a month or two out of their warranty  :(

Everything is built down to a price these days, so they save a few pence on each capacitor and we end up with unreliable components  :(

I still dont think that the quality of the power supply or changing one regularly would improve the life of the capacitors though.

Title: Power supply
Post by: sam on July 09, 2005, 18:45

just change the power supply when it goes...and hope it doesnt take ur computer with it, which it shouldnt!