PSA that shouldn't need to exist: Don't buy Diablotek.

[TheSLSAMG]

Okay, I shouldn't have to write this for the most of us, but this is for the newcomers. Do not buy Diablotek PSUs. Of course, they are a fire hazard, and they will never deliver the advertised wattage, but you may not (but most of us did) have expected this part. The machine in question has specs that follow:

 

AMD Athlon X4 750K

8GB Crucial Ballistix

NVIDIA GT620 1GB (placeholder until I get some cash, then will be replaced with an R7 260X/GTX 660)

Gigabyte GA-F2A75M-HD2

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO

500GB Toshiba HDD (from Mac Mini)

Diablotek EL600 600W Power Bomb Supply

Zalman Z11+

Corsair SP120 + Cooler Master Blade Master

Windows Vista Ultimate (don't ask )

 

I did make the mistake of buying one originally for my first machine, but it got replaced swiftly with a Corsair CX600M.

 

As for the problem? Feast your eyes on this:

 

 

Look at the voltages. The 3.3V rail barely delivers 2V, the 5V rail seems to be swapped with the 3.3V rail and the 12V rail is delivering less voltage than a 9V battery. It's pathetic. And if you don't want to believe me, believe JonnyGURU.

 

But just to close for the noobs out there, do NOT buy a Diablotek PSU. You will regret it,.

[Scionyde]

But it has a cool-sounding name!

[tp95112]

Why did you buy it in the first place?

[Guest]

Why do retailers even sell them? I feel like it just brings the reputation of the retailers down.

[Cwazywazy]

Wow, that sucks. I wonder how good my CoolMax 500w is..

 

I just looked at HWMonitor. The 12V rail is doing 10.7v.. At least the others seem to be fine. 3.3V rail is doing 3.3V.

[helping]

My piece of shit neighbor skipped town on me with a PC I built for him using some of my old parts and a few of his.

 

I threw in a 500w Diablotek I used as a testing/aux PSU

 

 

soon

 

[asickduckie]

Okay, I shouldn't have to write this for the most of us, but this is for the newcomers. Do not buy Diablotek PSUs. Of course, they are an extreme fire/explosion hazard, and they will never deliver the advertised wattage, but you may not (but most of us did) have expected this part. The machine in question has specs that follow:

 

Look at the voltages. The 3.3V rail barely delivers 2V, the 5V rail seems to be swapped with the 3.3V rail and the 12V rail is delivering less voltage than a 9V battery. It's pathetic. And if you don't want to believe me, believe JonnyGURU.

 

But just to close for the noobs out there, do NOT buy a Diablotek PSU. You will regret it,.

I'm more surprised one of your temp pins reads -7 Celcius

[sanderdegrote]

What did you expect from a 30$ PSU?

[nsyedhasan]

CX series FTW!

[kuzimins]

Weird. My cx430 12v rail shows 3.3v in hwmonitor. Everything else looks fine.

[TheSLSAMG]

What did you expect from a 30$ PSU?

Absolutely nothing, but I just wanted people to know. I didn't know beforehand a year ago when I was a PC noob, but I have learned that lesson.