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Remembering DiabloTek power supplies - how did this garbage company go out?

Pickles von Brine
By Pickles von Brine
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I remember working at microcenter and literally a pallet of diablotek power supplies sat in the BYO department. I made it my mission to prevent people for buying them. I went so far as to get into trouble with management. XD

 

but main thing was these power supplies were the biggest pieces of shit I have ever seen. They could not do their advertised wattage, did not follow the atx spec and were basically firestarters.

 

however, I could not find what happened to them in the end. Like, how they went out? Did their business fail or did something else force them? Or was it something else. 
 

god these things were a blight.

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9 minutes ago, Pickles von Brine said:

I remember working at microcenter and literally a pallet of diablotek power supplies sat in the BYO department. I made it my mission to prevent people for buying them. I went so far as to get into trouble with management. XD

 

but main thing was these power supplies were the biggest pieces of shit I have ever seen. They could not do their advertised wattage, did not follow the atx spec and were basically firestarters.

 

however, I could not find what happened to them in the end. Like, how they went out? Did their business fail or did something else force them? Or was it something else. 
 

god these things were a blight.

I live in other side of the world and just heard about this brand, and based on the quick google search about 'em....
If these are true, then all I can say is; they did a good job on picking a brand name, Diablo.

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They now make fireworks and other explosives(grenades etc).

Edit:
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Edited by Srijan Verma
clarifying sarcasm not actual info

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34 minutes ago, Srijan Verma said:

They now make fireworks and other explosives(grenades etc).

Source? Or is this sarcasm based on their power supply history? lol

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58 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Source? Or is this sarcasm based on their power supply history? lol

sarcasm, should probably add a edit in there

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4 minutes ago, Srijan Verma said:

sarcasm, should probably add a edit in there

You never know lol. 

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4 hours ago, Pickles von Brine said:

I remember working at microcenter and literally a pallet of diablotek power supplies sat in the BYO department. I made it my mission to prevent people for buying them. I went so far as to get into trouble with management. XD

 

but main thing was these power supplies were the biggest pieces of shit I have ever seen. They could not do their advertised wattage, did not follow the atx spec and were basically firestarters.

 

however, I could not find what happened to them in the end. Like, how they went out? Did their business fail or did something else force them? Or was it something else. 
 

god these things were a blight.

Yeah those were truly garbage PSUs. 

 

Reminds me of an entertaining thread from back in the day: https://www.overclock.net/threads/what-happens-if-you-sli-480s-on-a-not-80-psu.1117756/#post-14942946

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