http://corsair.com/cinema/movie.aspx?id=622747

A cheap PSU having around 75% load put on it. Exactly why a £15 PSU is a really, *really* bad idea.

Not exactly a very subjective test as it is done by a competitor to promote their products. Not that cheap PSUs couldnt be crappy, but they dont even tell anything about their testing methods. For example, they could very well be at only 75% of the total "advertised" output but be deliberately overloading a single output rail to get it to blow up.

Yeah, I agree it isn't particularly subjective (they didn't do the same thing with a Corsair PSU) but its fun.

According to the post where I got that from (the original poster works for Corsair, but I don't know if he's one of the people in the vid) the PSU was "rated at +3.3V@28A,+5V@34A,+12V@21A. We tested it with the 12V at 18A, the 3.3V at 20A, and the 5V at 10A on our load testers."

The original PSU is probably from Coolermaster btw

i have a cooler master real power pro 520Watt, will mine xplode too?

Quote from G!NhO :

i have a cooler master real power pro 520Watt, will mine xplode too?

lol that sucks

Atleast you're gonna make some popcorn.

Remind me an old vid' about cpu's

http://video.google.fr/videopl ... er%20in%20flame&hl=fr

Raise the sound volume down, music is crap.

if it dies within a year, i can go back to the shop and they replace it

Quote from G!NhO :

if it dies within a year, i can go back to the shop and they replace it

In case of YOU, it'll die in 1 year + 1 DAY

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

In case of YOU, it'll die in 1 year + 1 DAY

well that would suck, but i dont think it will die

Quote from G!NhO :

well that would suck, but i dont think it will die

No it won't, you'll kill that.

its quite funny how many cheapstick PSU's i blow up per week and NO it's not my fault!
lol@ the corsair worker: he scared himself, atleast i have cool backfire comming out of it B)

i just orderede a 550watt coolermaster rated at 80+ efficiency.

no please be serious, does Cooler master really make bad PSU's?

No not really - they are a hell of a lot better than most PSU's.

ah thanks

Pfft those "explosions" are nothing !

I ran my EZ-Cool super silent 650W PSU till it went "fiiiiiiiz BANG ! *huge flash here*"

Smells nasty

Sarge.

Edit: Bump !

Those PSUs are NOT Coolermaster products.

Quote from shaun463 :

Those PSUs are NOT Coolermaster products.

good

just so you know:
http://www.80plus.org/

Quote from george_tsiros :

just so you know:
http://www.80plus.org/

Heres corsair ones around $100 for the 550watt and around $65 for the 450watt

http://www.corsairmemory.com/products/vx.aspx