Stop me if you have heard this one before. A couple of our guys were doing some load testing one day on some PSUs and had some fun with some "inexpensive" low end units.

The unit was rated at +3.3V@28A,+5V@34A,+12V@21A

We tested it with the 12V at 18A, the 3.3V at 20A, and the 5V at 10A on our load testers.

Check out the video clip, Why a high-quality PSU is an essential purchase.

Video Link: http://corsair.com/cinema/default.aspx

Lol

Saw this posted elsewhere this morning, great fireworks show.

On a side note; What do I have to do to get an 8 pin pcie cable for my HX 620?
I sent an email to RamGuy about 2 weeks ago.

I had to email him a couple of times, when he got to it it was sent overnight I think!

Pretty funny. This should be a sticky.

Good stuff.

Interesting video.

Why not name the brand? Is it staged?

Corsair Power Supplies are highly rated here.
We stay away from the $50.00 stuff that destroys the whole computer.
$1,000.00 is a high price for a $50.00 computer supply.

Thanx Bad, I ended up calling them today, so hopefully it won't be to long.
Then again if it takes longer the price of a GTX280 may go down even more.

It would be nice to know what brand the PSU was, but the point was more that cheap PSUs are just that, cheap, and not put together using quality parts or putting out their rated power.

i cant believe i was actually using a cheap psu until 3 weeks ago

I doubt it was staged. If they don't name the brand then there are no repercussions. Also, that way they don't focus on one brand but all junk PSUs.

I actually still have and use one, an Aspire 680wt unit. But its in an old computer that only needs about 250wt, so the Aspire isn't being strained at all. I wouldn't trust the Aspire to any computer that makes real demands for power.

I've got an Aspire 500W PSU that I still keep as a spare because it is the same model I had in my old 939 X2 3800+ rig; my cousin has it now and it is still running some two years later. No, I wouldn't run it anywhere near capacity, nor would I buy another, but it isn't as hopeless as its Tier-5 rating implies. It's got some heft to it.

By doing so they brand every unknown or unnamed PSU, as shown in the video, as junk psu. It is advertisment, that is pretty clear and was from the beginning - that's not my problem though. While i think the video is quite entertaining, unlike you, i simply refuse to believe that all cheap psus are junk. That's why i'd like to know the brand.
And what kind of repercussions should there be? If six psus of manufacturer A fail to complete a basic test of manufacturer B, i don't see the problem of saying so.

nice flashes

I agree with Slobogob. I want to know who is selling grabbage.

Check Newegg, you'll find it.

Brand X is any (all?) cheap PSU. The UK magazine, Custom PC has done a couple of wide reviws of PSUs and have always found that cheap PSUs cannot maintain 75% of their rated output and either shutdown or go 'Bang'. You get what you pay for. Worse still, before they go bang, the outputs can go very unstable, above or below rated output.

Mike.

I have always loved how the power transistor protects the fuse in these types of power supplies by failing first, usually in a very (as in the video) spectacular manner.

Right, so they get the best of both worlds. They piss on all cheap PSUs and don't have to deal with the one brand that they pissed off.

I would like to know t