Bought a rm750 but I am scared now

[tihor29]

I just received a corsair rm750 that I ordered for a upcoming build. My problem is that I am now seeing very mixed reviews of this psu. Some say it is extremely silent and fantastic for anything. Others say that this psu is terrible and just broke on the first day. I am wondering what you think about it. One good thing is that it has a 5 year warranty.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

They are saying the caps are not as good of quality as other PSUs. 

 

You are completely fine and this will make no difference.

[helping]

it's good

 

certainly not top shelf, but it's good

 

calm yourself

[MegaDave91]

Reading reviews AFTER you buy a product doesn't make much sense. Reading reviews should tie into your research of said product before you take the plunge and buy it.

[cae]

Don't be scared, my child. Corsair shall make everything right.

[Izaya Orihara]

I did build 3 Pc's with it. No problem. (Not the same wattage but the same Series) 

[trama09]

One way to find out? #yolo

[quan289]

I just received a corsair rm750 that I ordered for a upcoming build. My problem is that I am now seeing very mixed reviews of this psu. Some say it is extremely silent and fantastic for anything. Others say that this psu is terrible and just broke on the first day. I am wondering what you think about it. One good thing is that it has a 5 year warranty.

 

It has been criticized for a few things (one of issues had already been fix on the latest revision), but they aren't "terrible" nor should they break down on the first day.

 

Here's a post I had made relating to DOAs and failures.

 

"DOAs can be explain by the handling of the shipping company from the time it left the manufacturing warehouse in China all the way until it finally reach your system. During the quality control everything ran fine, but due to possibly that the boxes that holds these units may have been drop numerous of times at Newegg's storage warehouse, shipping trucks, etc. something may got loose or even damage.

 

Then issues like PSUs failing in a few months time can be explain by certain quality control issues that have been overlooked (remember, they have to look at thousands of units. They are bound to overlook something eventually). For example, the robots didn't put enough solder on one of the joints. Even though, it did not have an immediate affect, over time, during heat/cool cycles, it may crack and fail. Or a batch of components are partially bad that didn't show any immediate signs of failure and is able to pass and slipped by QC test. It may take a few months or years for issues to manifest itself.

 

Of course, these issues can happen to any mass-produce electronics. Not just PSUs. If you want to get a good idea of how good a particular PSU is, it is best that you go review a competent, more professional review site. TBH, the understanding of the inner workings of a PSU of those reviewers (Newegg and such) are usually very little. Reviews sites such as HardwareSecrets, Jonnyguru, TechPowerUp, HardOCP, etc. are good."

[PillowSmoke]

I just received a corsair rm750 that I ordered for a upcoming build. My problem is that I am now seeing very mixed reviews of this psu. Some say it is extremely silent and fantastic for anything. Others say that this psu is terrible and just broke on the first day. I am wondering what you think about it. One good thing is that it has a 5 year warranty.

 

Eh it should be fine, and in the event something bad should happen. The warranty should cover you, maybe the power supply but probably not the other damaged parts.

[tihor29]

Reading reviews AFTER you buy a product doesn't make much sense. Reading reviews should tie into your research of said product before you take the plunge and buy it.

I read the reviews on amazon and newegg all of them were good but after I bought it I found a bad tomshardware review.

[quan289]

I read the reviews on amazon and newegg all of them were good but after I bought it I found a bad tomshardware review.

 

I'm sure you are able to find at least a bad review for almost any products. People with bad reviews tends to complaint more often those who have positive reviews. If there's 100 people with 100 bad units, you probably going to hear almost 100 complaints. On the other hand, if you have 100 people have good experience with it, probably only 10 of them will actually write a review.

 

Of course, when you look at the numbers of positives to negatives reviews on Newegg, you may noticed that often times there are significantly more positives than there are negatives. While this may seemingly contradicted what I just said above, you need to realized that there have been thousands upon ten thousands of  shipments of the RM series worldwide. If you have a 1000 of units sold on Newegg, you may only hear 100 positive reviews and 20 negative reviews. A 20% complaints may look like a lot, but when you look at it in a grand scale of things, that's only 2% of the units sold.

 

While they are certainly better units you could have gotten, the RM series isn't a "terrible" unit. It's still a good mainstream unit, and if you already got it, you shouldn't worry about it.

[GeekySole9354]

I'm sure you are able to find at least a bad review for almost any products. People with bad reviews tends to complaint more often those who have positive reviews. If there's 100 people with 100 bad units, you probably going to hear almost 100 complaints. On the other hand, if you have 100 people have good experience with it, probably only 10 of them will actually write a review.

Of course, when you look at the numbers of positives to negatives reviews on Newegg, you may noticed that often times there are significantly more positives than there are negatives. While this may seemingly contradicted what I just said above, you need to realized that there have been thousands upon ten thousands of shipments of the RM series worldwide. If you have a 1000 of units sold on Newegg, you may only hear 100 positive reviews and 20 negative reviews. A 20% complaints may look like a lot, but when you look at it in a grand scale of things, that's only 2% of the units sold.

While they are certainly better units you could have gotten, the RM series isn't a "terrible" unit. It's still a good mainstream unit, and if you already got it, you shouldn't worry about it.

That, my friend, was a great answer.

[Armede]

I've had mine for 6 months and haven't had the first problem out of it.

[Mcdoorknob]

It's from corsair so you know that the product has to go through some screening process and they also have a good warranty and if it breaks soon they will replace it.

I'm almost certain that you will be fine with the PSU

[tihor29]

I'm sure you are able to find at least a bad review for almost any products. People with bad reviews tends to complaint more often those who have positive reviews. If there's 100 people with 100 bad units, you probably going to hear almost 100 complaints. On the other hand, if you have 100 people have good experience with it, probably only 10 of them will actually write a review.

Of course, when you look at the numbers of positives to negatives reviews on Newegg, you may noticed that often times there are significantly more positives than there are negatives. While this may seemingly contradicted what I just said above, you need to realized that there have been thousands upon ten thousands of shipments of the RM series worldwide. If you have a 1000 of units sold on Newegg, you may only hear 100 positive reviews and 20 negative reviews. A 20% complaints may look like a lot, but when you look at it in a grand scale of things, that's only 2% of the units sold.

While they are certainly better units you could have gotten, the RM series isn't a "terrible" unit. It's still a good mainstream unit, and if you already got it, you shouldn't worry about it.

Right now it is great but sometimes the 12 pin motherboard connector comes loose.