- Mar 17, 2014
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The least expensive branded psus cost over Rs 2000 in our area, while the cheap ones cost only Rs 500, and everyone(atleast 99%) chooses the cheap ones. By cheap ones i mean zebronics, mercury, etc. All the shops here sell assembled pcs with these psus, and nobody cares about it, they just want it cheap. I have heard about its drawbacks like not giving as much power as specified and even as far as blowing up and taking away other components with it. Still i haven't heard of anything like that here. My pc was bought when i was young, 8 years ago. It was a pentium d pc. It had a 400W mercury psu(cheap), and experienced no problems. After a few years, i upgraded to an hd 6670 and a core 2 quad, and still the pc was fine. Recently i upgraded to an Antec VP450P psu. So the cheap one basically lasted 8 years. It wasn't damaged or anything, still works just as usual. One thing i noticed is that the pc was pretty silent after getting the new psu. And this one costed Rs 2800, which is nearly 6 times higher than the local one.
I had been doing some research about psus for some time, and everywhere on the forums it just says never buy a cheap psu for any build and these are tier 5 psus and are garbage, but still nobody in our area cares about. Recently i built a budget gaming pc for my friend, and he said that he only needed the zebronics psu which costed 6 times less, and didn't care about branded psus when i told him about them. So, why are they so cheap? Usually rival products that are like 30% cheaper is considered to be very cheap, but 6 times less is way too cheap. They may be built with cheaper and weak components, but still was ok till now(8+years and still running).
There has to be a catch right?
I had been doing some research about psus for some time, and everywhere on the forums it just says never buy a cheap psu for any build and these are tier 5 psus and are garbage, but still nobody in our area cares about. Recently i built a budget gaming pc for my friend, and he said that he only needed the zebronics psu which costed 6 times less, and didn't care about branded psus when i told him about them. So, why are they so cheap? Usually rival products that are like 30% cheaper is considered to be very cheap, but 6 times less is way too cheap. They may be built with cheaper and weak components, but still was ok till now(8+years and still running).
There has to be a catch right?
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