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24 minutes ago, tj_420 said:

I know its a bad PSU. Wanted to know what tier it was in. I'm guessing tier 7

Until further notice/more information, I'd call those "Pollution", because it can only be used sensible as a Paper Weight (or defensive purposes).

But the Production for that causes so much pollution, that that is the main thing.

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2 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

Until further notice/more information, I'd call those "Pollution", because it can only be used sensible as a Paper Weight (or defensive purposes).

But the Production for that causes so much pollution, that that is the main thing.

They'd be a pretty useless paperweight. Not heavy enough.

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20 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

They'd be a pretty useless paperweight. Not heavy enough.

I once overheard a conversation at Guanghua 3C market, a huge 7 floor electronics market in Taipei.

 

It went something like "Did you hear about the new (local brand) PSU and what they did to it?"

"What"

"They added steel weights! Hahaha"

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26 minutes ago, JDE said:

I once overheard a conversation at Guanghua 3C market, a huge 7 floor electronics market in Taipei.

 

It went something like "Did you hear about the new (local brand) PSU and what they did to it?"

"What"

"They added steel weights! Hahaha"

Steel's probably costly, but it's better than hardened horse manure.

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Just now, turkey3_scratch said:

Steel's probably costly, but it's better than hardened horse manure.

This is Taiwan, the going rate for cheap neighbouring Chinese steel is $2/ton

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3 hours ago, JDE said:

I once overheard a conversation at Guanghua 3C market, a huge 7 floor electronics market in Taipei.

 

It went something like "Did you hear about the new (local brand) PSU and what they did to it?"

"What"

"They added steel weights! Hahaha"

Just Steel??
Not Concrete like in some Fake PFC Units??

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On 4/19/2018 at 7:17 AM, JDE said:

WHO WANTS ONE?

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ONLY $90 CAD, THE SAME PRICE AS A G2 550!

Same price as G2 550?  I'd rather have the AcBel.  

 

But that is an on going problem with AcBel.  They ARE more expensive than everyone else.  Also why we rarely see them as an OEM in retail PSUs anymore.  Ever since they got about 90% of Apple's power supply business, they've lost touch with competitive pricing (since obviously Apple doesn't need to be competitively priced).

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FYI

https://www.hardware.fr/articles/962-3/alimentations.html

 

Corsair CX has a high return rate, probably because of the high fan RPM.

Raider is awful, be quiet looks generally pretty good.


Seasonic doesn't.

 

Those are return rates, not necessarily defects! That also can mean that peopla are dissatisfied with the unit, for example because the fan has loud motor/bearing noises.

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1 hour ago, Stefan Payne said:

FYI

https://www.hardware.fr/articles/962-3/alimentations.html

 

Corsair CX has a high return rate, probably because of the high fan RPM.

Raider is awful, be quiet looks generally pretty good.


Seasonic doesn't.

 

Those are return rates, not necessarily defects! That also can mean that peopla are dissatisfied with the unit, for example because the fan has loud motor/bearing noises.

Potentially also the housing bending. Jon noted that due to how thin the steel is on CWT PSU housings it often makes contact with the fan, causing clicking noises.

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6 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

FYI

https://www.hardware.fr/articles/962-3/alimentations.html

 

Corsair CX has a high return rate, probably because of the high fan RPM.

Raider is awful, be quiet looks generally pretty good.


Seasonic doesn't.

 

Those are return rates, not necessarily defects! That also can mean that peopla are dissatisfied with the unit, for example because the fan has loud motor/bearing noises.

Highly popular products often see higher return/RMA rates simply because there are so many more sold over other brands/models. We saw something similar with the older CX models. Just saying it could be legit issues, but it also may be skewed perception due to high sales/popularity. 

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7 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

FYI

https://www.hardware.fr/articles/962-3/alimentations.html

 

Corsair CX has a high return rate, probably because of the high fan RPM.

Raider is awful, be quiet looks generally pretty good.


Seasonic doesn't.

 

Those are return rates, not necessarily defects! That also can mean that peopla are dissatisfied with the unit, for example because the fan has loud motor/bearing noises.

55 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

Highly popular products often see higher return/RMA rates simply because there are so many more sold over other brands/models. We saw something similar with the older CX models. Just saying it could be legit issues, but it also may be skewed perception due to high sales/popularity. 

I can say personally I bought a Corsair CXM 550 at Best Buy a few months back.  I thought it was a relatively quiet PSU (and extremely light).  After about a month, system became instable and eventually wouldn't power on.

I opted to swap for an EVGA BQ 850w from the same store.  It's not as quiet (fan always spins) but it has worked in a pinch.  I'll be swapping back to my GQ the next time I change cases.  It'll be a good throw-around psu.


Common cause of failure would be nice to know on these units.  I could still recommend it to people but only if they're willing to risk getting a defect.  Certainly it didn't blow up like a lot of old CXes did, it went very quietly. 

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Just now, Biggerboot said:

I can say personally I bought a Corsair CXM 550 at Best Buy a few months back.  I thought it was a relatively quiet PSU (and extremely light).  After about a month, system became instable and eventually wouldn't power on.

I opted to swap for an EVGA BQ 850w from the same store.  It's not as quiet but it has worked in a pinch.  I'll be swapping back to my GQ the next time I change cases.  It'll be a good throw-around psu.


Common cause of failure would be nice to know on these units.  I could still recommend it to people but only if they're willing to risk getting a defect.  Certainly it didn't blow up like a lot of old CXes did, it went very quietly. 

Anecdotes aren't really worth anything, any unit can fail. 

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11 minutes ago, seon123 said:

Anecdotes aren't really worth anything, any unit can fail. 

I'll be glad to admit that this is just based on my experience.  I've done a good bit of reading on the unit and it seemed to be a quality psu for the price.  At least I'd feel safe putting it in a system - trusting it not to kill anything.  It just never leaves a good taste in one's mouth. 

Edit: More or less, I wanted to share that story because of the nature in how it failed.

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2 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

Highly popular products often see higher return/RMA rates simply because there are so many more sold over other brands/models. We saw something similar with the older CX models. Just saying it could be legit issues, but it also may be skewed perception due to high sales/popularity. 

RMA rates, contrary to rates in physics which are <something> / unit of time, are usually percentages, so the amount sold isn't relevant.

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Coolermaster Master Masterwatt 550W or be quiet 500 Watt Pure Power 10? Bequiet costs around £8 more, which I'm not sure is worth it for me usecase.

 

Tried a Corsair 550W grey label but fan was ticking and loud. Also due to recent experiances with other Corsair products I have no desire to give them anymore money.

 

Will be used in a secondary diagnostics PC which I use to test other components like GPUs (stress tests included) or software. Possibly powered on a few times a week which may include stress tests. Sturdy cables is a bonus.

 

Was attracted by the Coolermasters 5 year warranty but as far as I understand the Bequiet is better quality. Is the CM much worse?

 

Thanks and also open to other suggestions (budget is around £50).

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1 hour ago, Twirlz said:

Coolermaster Master Masterwatt 550W or be quiet 500 Watt Pure Power 10? Bequiet costs around £8 more, which I'm not sure is worth it for me usecase.

 

Tried a Corsair 550W grey label but fan was ticking and loud. Also due to recent experiances with other Corsair products I have no desire to give them anymore money.

 

Will be used in a secondary diagnostics PC which I use to test other components like GPUs (stress tests included) or software. Possibly powered on a few times a week which may include stress tests. Sturdy cables is a bonus.

 

Was attracted by the Coolermasters 5 year warranty but as far as I understand the Bequiet is better quality. Is the CM much worse?

 

Thanks and also open to other suggestions (budget is around £50).

Pure Power 10 if you want the silence.

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21 hours ago, turkey3_scratch said:

RMA rates, contrary to rates in physics which are <something> / unit of time, are usually percentages, so the amount sold isn't relevant.

In that case, yes, I agree. But also, generally, more people will complain, post about issues and that gets parroted and more wide-spread than it needs to leading to more people believing those units are "bad", when really it's just because you hear more about them due to popularity. If that makes sense... lol.

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8 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

In that case, yes, I agree. But also, generally, more people will complain, post about issues and that gets parroted and more wide-spread than it needs to leading to more people believing those units are "bad", when really it's just because you hear more about them due to popularity. If that makes sense... lol.

Saying that, the opposite can also be true (See the S12II's popularity for example)

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1 minute ago, awesomegamer919 said:

Saying that, the opposite can also be true (See the S12II's popularity for example)

Yep. And that's where proper research comes into play. ;) 

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7 hours ago, Twirlz said:

Coolermaster Master Masterwatt 550W or be quiet 500 Watt Pure Power 10? Bequiet costs around £8 more, which I'm not sure is worth it for me usecase.

 

Tried a Corsair 550W grey label but fan was ticking and loud. Also due to recent experiances with other Corsair products I have no desire to give them anymore money.

 

Will be used in a secondary diagnostics PC which I use to test other components like GPUs (stress tests included) or software. Possibly powered on a few times a week which may include stress tests. Sturdy cables is a bonus.

 

Was attracted by the Coolermasters 5 year warranty but as far as I understand the Bequiet is better quality. Is the CM much worse?

 

Thanks and also open to other suggestions (budget is around £50).

In that case the Pure Power 10 is by far the better choice becase its way quieter than the Cooler Master.

Their Implementation of Semi Fanless isn't great and based on the same IC Seasonic uses for their X/P Series...

 

 

6 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

Yep. And that's where proper research comes into play. ;) 

And here the Problem begins:
How do you know if someone is taking you for a fool or really knows what he's talking about and speaks the truth??
That's an enormous Problem and one of the reasons people still recommend certain units or go by brand, because people told them that - and they believed that they know what they are talking about...

 

Its _THE_ Problem of the Interwebs...

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2 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

 

And here the Problem begins:
How do you know if someone is taking you for a fool or really knows what he's talking about and speaks the truth??
That's an enormous Problem and one of the reasons people still recommend certain units or go by brand, because people told them that - and they believed that they know what they are talking about...

 

Its _THE_ Problem of the Interwebs...

Totally. Took me a long time to learn who can be trusted and even then, you have to remain diligent and compare results. It's a daunting task to fully research various products and PSU's are ones that are less popular to review. 

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Was thinking about the claim of @Stefan Paynearound higher wattage PSUs being noisier at lower loads compared to their lower wattage brethren:

 

Cougar GX-F:

https://www.cybenetics.com/code/pdf.php?id=wso

https://www.cybenetics.com/code/pdf.php?id=QUY

https://www.cybenetics.com/code/pdf.php?id=09T

 

BeQuiet Straight Power 11:

https://www.cybenetics.com/code/pdf.php?id=6Gh

https://www.cybenetics.com/code/pdf.php?id=Z9c

 

EVGA G2 (This one's a doozy):

https://tpucdn.com/reviews/EVGA/SuperNOVA_G2_650/images/cl_fan.jpg

https://tpucdn.com/reviews/EVGA/SuperNOVA_G2_750/images/CL_fan.jpg

 

EVGA G3:

https://www.cybenetics.com/code/pdf.php?id=GLO

https://www.cybenetics.com/code/pdf.php?id=wP5

https://www.cybenetics.com/code/pdf.php?id=HH4

 

Bitfenix Whisper M:

https://www.cybenetics.com/code/pdf.php?id=pTP

https://www.cybenetics.com/code/pdf.php?id=Ezh

https://www.cybenetics.com/code/pdf.php?id=peE

https://www.cybenetics.com/code/pdf.php?id=YSY

 

Seasonic FOCUS PLUS:

https://www.cybenetics.com/code/pdf.php?id=r2I

https://www.cybenetics.com/code/pdf.php?id=M3b

 

Every single one of these is either equal in noise with the higher wattage PSU or is louder with the higher wattage PSU!

 

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I take it this is a good replacement?

Current Corsair VS650:

  • 80 standard
  • 4x SATA
  • 4x molex
  • 2x berg
  • 2x PCIe x8
  • Sleeve Bearing fan
  • 3 year warranty

Planned Corsair TX650M (around $10 less than what the VS650 cost me in store 3 years ago):

  • 80 gold
  • 6x SATA
  • 4x Molex
  • 1x molex-berg adapter
  • 4x PCIe x8
  • Rifle bearing fan
  • 7 year warranty

 

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11 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

I take it this is a good replacement?

Current Corsair VS650:

  • 80 standard
  • 4x SATA
  • 4x molex
  • 2x berg
  • 2x PCIe x8
  • Sleeve Bearing fan
  • 3 year warranty

Planned Corsair TX650M (around $10 less than what the VS650 cost me in store 3 years ago):

  • 80 gold
  • 6x SATA
  • 4x Molex
  • 1x molex-berg adapter
  • 4x PCIe x8
  • Rifle bearing fan
  • 7 year warranty

 

Yes

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