what so bad about Aerocool PSUs?

[MiguelitoIV]

good day everyone

 

has anybody had a bad experience with aerocool PSUs? i know its tier 4 but is it really bad? i coudnt find any reviews online or im just too lazy.

 

thanks in advance!

[Naeaes]

Aerocool PSUs are worth their price. Considering that by buying one it only costs like $40 to teach the lesson not to buy Aerocool PSUs ever again.

If you hired a specialist to explain it in a classroom with slides and notes and hours of talking, you'd end up paying in the order of hundreds or thousands of dollars. It's a good deal!

 

There are too many differences between models to give an educated and specific overview but to my experience (never bought myself but worked as an RMA handler) the issues revolve around the same issues as they usually do. They don't deliver the power they promise to begin with. They overheat easily. They have huge jitter and droop under load. And surprisingly often they don't support the new Intel specifications. The power consumption under sleep mode drops so low that the PSU assumes there's an undervotage issue and shuts itself down which crashes windows while it sleeps making it difficult to restart.

[Narnash]

It's just cheap, on reviews I see bad packaging, low cost chinese components inside, ripple noise suppression sucks ... 

 

It is a example for a bad PSU, even if aerocool is a brand you even heard off in some categories for a good price to performance brand. The PSU are not worth the low cost.

AND SERIOUSLY NEVER GO CHEAP IF YOU CHOOSE YOUR PSU ! ! ! IT'S KINDA THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR PC

[MiguelitoIV]

would it blow up and destroy your other components? or would it just shutdown your computer? whats the difference of a tier 5 and tier 4 psu?

 

thanks for the respones sir

[ZetZet]

6 minutes ago, MiguelitoIV said:

would it blow up and destroy your other components?

it can

 

6 minutes ago, MiguelitoIV said:

or would it just shutdown your computer?

it can do that too

 

 

 

or it could run for 10 years. it's not reliable because it's unpredictable.

[DXMember]

depends on the model number

don't look at the brand, always review a model

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=6

[Narnash]

25 minutes ago, DXMember said:

depends on the model number

don't look at the brand, always review a model

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=6

Thats true, we all know that the most Corsair PSUs are great but there are rotten apples in the Corsair portfolio, too for example.

But since the PSU from the review is kinda old ... most Aerocool PSUs are not worth it

[MiguelitoIV]

Just now, Narnash said:

Thats true, we all know that the most Corsair PSUs are great but there are rotten apples in the Corsair portfolio, too for example.

But since the PSU from the review is kinda old ... most Aerocool PSUs are not worth it

how about this aerocool?

http://www.plugloadsolutions.com/psu_reports/AEROCOOL_RAVE%20500W_ECOS%20153.1_550W_Report.pdf

[gonvres]

40 minutes ago, ZetZet said:

it can

 

it can do that too

 

 

 

or it could run for 10 years. it's not reliable because it's unpredictable.

 

I've often wondered if the PSU hysteria for general office type computers is overstated. I've worked on friends and family members systems before and they often have shockingly bad bundled power supplies, yet seemingly last the time. I'm not saying that they should buy that trash, but sometimes on a cheaper computer saving $50 on a bundled PSU can make the difference. 

 

Not that I'd ever recommend anyone does it and I myself have developed what I call a "PSU paranoia" over the years on any system I put together, but I do notice a lot of people do use that junk.

[ZetZet]

9 minutes ago, gonvres said:

 

I've often wondered if the PSU hysteria for general office type computers is overstated. I've worked on friends and family members systems before and they often have shockingly bad bundled power supplies, yet seemingly last the time. I'm not saying that they should buy that trash, but sometimes on a cheaper computer saving $50 on a bundled PSU can make the difference. 

 

Not that I'd ever recommend anyone does it and I myself have developed what I call a "PSU paranoia" over the years on any system I put together, but I do notice a lot of people do use that junk.

I mean, if you compete in scrap yard wars Aerocool is perfectly reasonable. 

[Narnash]

2 minutes ago, gonvres said:

 

I've often wondered if the PSU hysteria for general office type computers is overstated. I've worked on friends and family members systems before and they often have shockingly bad bundled power supplies, yet seemingly last the time. I'm not saying that they should buy that trash, but sometimes on a cheaper computer saving $50 on a bundled PSU can make the difference. 

 

Not that I'd ever recommend anyone does it and I myself have developed what I call a "PSU paranoia" over the years on any system I put together, but I do notice a lot of people do use that junk.

I know what you mean, and I would maybe leave it inside if it run fine for some time, than most likely it whould for 2 years. But still it's risk, you can make some cuts in point of noise ripple if the protective circuits are decent and you don't push to far on the power limit on each Rail in my opinion (I sold a FSP Raider 650W to a friend for 20 euro once, only for surfing stuff ).

And if the whole PC is worth more than 4-5 times of a good but not oversized PSU than I recommend a good one.

[Narnash]

2 minutes ago, ZetZet said:

I mean, if you compete in scrap yard wars Aerocool is perfectly reasonable. 

Sparkelpower 

[ZetZet]

3 minutes ago, Narnash said:

Sparkelpower 

FSP Group is pretty good as far as PSU's go. 

[Narnash]

8 minutes ago, ZetZet said:

FSP Group is pretty good as far as PSU's go. 

I know, it wasn't really bad, 80 Plus Silver rated and very efficient for the price, but reviews attest a for my taste to huge ripple noise (back in the day I started to OC)

[hema]

for future readers, Aerocool PSU sucks, and here is my story

tl;dr that PSU killed my CPU and DRAM