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yes i know its marketing. but it does have some truth to it.
enjoy!
link
yes i know its marketing. but it does have some truth to it.
enjoy!
This has been posted at least twice already!
Never seen it before, but i like it!
Ironically enough though, corsair sent me out a replacement cable which DID cause 2 HDDs & my CD drive to dramtically exlpode. Smoke out of the top of an antec 900 brings tear to your eyes!
(for the record they did replace everything with brand new kit within a week, so kudos to them!)
ugh dam it!
someone always beats me to it
Thanks for the link, not seen that before!![]()
i'm not 100% certain about the methodology - the wording seams weasely to me:
the quoted wattage on a PSU is meant to be the peak output (not input) power. a 450W supply should be able to push 450W through all combined outputs (this often isn't the case, but that's another story). if a supply is inefficient, then it's normal to pull in more input power than the rated output (i.e. a 450W supply will pull more than 450W of input, if it's less than 100% efficient)
bad supplies are pretty inefficient, so if you're starving them of input power whilst pulling on the output, then failure is inevitable. BUT (big but) bad supplies can & will explode when you ask them for a "sensible" output, even if you're not clamping a max value on the input, as it seems corsair did here. for an example, check "funnies" at the bottom of http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=1359&page=25 where a "650w" qtec supply draws an increasing amount of power (up to 1100w) trying to push 400w out, before exploding
so... corsair are right that bad supplies pop, but their methodology is a mean way to trap supplies with <75% efficiency into looking dangerous, when in real-world scenarios the input wattage will never be clamped as in the video
corsairs tests are a load of bollox, any componant that relys on a flow of air to keep it cool will go bang with the covers removed preventing airflow
biggest crock of sh*t ive seen for a long time.
lets all go seal out pc's in an airtight plastic bag and see how long they last...
i saw no vid of there psu's under load with no covers ?
they would go bang like the rest after an amount of time.
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