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    Re: Thoughts on Hiper PSU

    Quote Originally Posted by TAKTAK View Post
    No-one can say for certain, but it is a decent quality PSU, so i would expect the mean life to be around 10 years+

    Ways to prolong it's life are keeping it clean and cool.

    edit: i was beateded
    wow 10 years on average, then it was a really good investment then

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    Re: Thoughts on Hiper PSU

    Quote Originally Posted by vincent.m View Post
    wow 10 years on average, then it was a really good investment then
    Sorry TakTak but your guess on the amount of time a PSU would last (Corsair or any other), was a very bad piece of advice.
    What makes you assume that it will last that long?

    Whether the quality is good or not, its totally impossible to gauge how long it will last.

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    Re: Thoughts on Hiper PSU

    What's the best way to clean dust out of a PSU? Using a vacuum cleaner apparently creates static and it doesn't clean it anyway, air dusters just blow dust all over the place and makes you cough. Is it OK to open then?

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    Re: Thoughts on Hiper PSU

    Quote Originally Posted by vincent.m View Post
    nd what kind of things can prolong the life or the PSU?
    Keeping it in it's box

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    Re: Thoughts on Hiper PSU

    Quote Originally Posted by watercooled View Post
    What's the best way to clean dust out of a PSU? Using a vacuum cleaner apparently creates static and it doesn't clean it anyway, air dusters just blow dust all over the place and makes you cough. Is it OK to open then?
    I'd imagine you may void any warranty on the psu if you open it. But I don't know if there is a way for Hiper to tell if its been opened. Anyway do PSU's really get affected by dust?

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    Re: Thoughts on Hiper PSU

    Quote Originally Posted by shadowmaster View Post
    Anyway do PSU's really get affected by dust?


    The dust act's like a blanket and keeps the warmth in. Those bits that need to get cool can't cool down quick enough. It's why stuff overheats when it's all dusty.

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    Re: Thoughts on Hiper PSU

    Sticking a vacuum cleaner to it is ok AS LONG as you follow these rules

    1- Unplug it from your pc (this is mainly a simple idiot check so incase you do damage it there should be no chance of damaging your pc as well) You caan leave it pluged into the wall as long as the wall switch if off (this will also earth it)

    2- Stop the fan from spinning, this is the big danger of vacuum cleaners, if you manually spin a computer fan it becomes a dynamo and will feed power back into what ever it is attached to.
    A Vacuum cleaner can move a far greater volume of air than a pc fan, which means if you make a pc fan spin with a vacuum cleaner it will spin much faster than normal.
    Which in turn will generate far higher voltages than is used to power it and that high voltage current will be feed back into whatever it's pluged into from the wrong direction so to speak.

    The same applies when cleaning a pc with a vacuum cleaner, unplug and disable ALL fans.
    It also applies to cans of compressed air, the compressed air can spin a fan far faster than normal feeding back a higher voltage into whatever the fan was attached to. (I've accedently killed a projector, because I missed one fan when cleaning it with compressed air, I took out a control board (2 resisters burnt out) and power regulator of the psu.

    Simple way to disable a fan, stick a cocktail stick through the fan grill and between the blades so the fan cannot rotate, then secure the cocktail stick so it will not fall or be sucked out. (tape or a large lump of bluetak works well)
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    Re: Thoughts on Hiper PSU

    Sounds good. I've tried with a vacuum before I heard it wasn't a good idea. I now leave my PC plugged in but not switched on by the socket/PSU when I'm working inside so it's earthed. Don't bother with wrist straps, though - I just touch the psu all the time.

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    Re: Thoughts on Hiper PSU

    Quote Originally Posted by Pob255 View Post
    2- Stop the fan from spinning, this is the big danger of vacuum cleaners, if you manually spin a computer fan it becomes a dynamo and will feed power back into what ever it is attached to.
    A Vacuum cleaner can move a far greater volume of air than a pc fan, which means if you make a pc fan spin with a vacuum cleaner it will spin much faster than normal.
    Which in turn will generate far higher voltages than is used to power it and that high voltage current will be feed back into whatever it's pluged into from the wrong direction so to speak.
    Great fun on cheapy LED fans

    I shall have to see just how many volts a dyson can generate

    It didn't seem to harm the fan though.

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    Re: Thoughts on Hiper PSU

    one thing i did was on my p182, i put the PSU in upside down. and it seems pretty dust free.
    i also used a make up brush (clean of course) to dislodge it, i always use a makeup brush to remove thick dust.. i have also very little air flow in my computer now. i have only 3 fans spinning, removed gpu fan, only have one on the psu, and one exhaust. all on low setting.

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    Got no probs with using a Hiper
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    Re: Thoughts on Hiper PSU

    Quote Originally Posted by vicar View Post
    Got no probs with using a Hiper
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    New Hipers now use quality oems, forgot what they were tho

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    Re: Thoughts on Hiper PSU

    Quote Originally Posted by Blitzen View Post
    Sorry TakTak but your guess on the amount of time a PSU would last (Corsair or any other), was a very bad piece of advice.
    What makes you assume that it will last that long?

    Whether the quality is good or not, its totally impossible to gauge how long it will last.
    I did say in the same post that no-one can say for certain...

    Some may last decades, others, a few weeks, it's just 'luck of the draw' as is everything else in tech..

    However, personally, i would expect the mean life of a Seasonic/Enermax/Corsair unit to be longer than that of a EZcool/Qtec etc
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    Re: Thoughts on Hiper PSU

    Failures in bits of kit are measured by MTBFs, which means Mean Time Between Failures. Those who know anything about statistics will realise this will follow a Normal Distibution curve http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NormalDistribution.html, and your partcular bit of kit could be anywhere on that curve.

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    Re: Thoughts on Hiper PSU

    Quote Originally Posted by Thorsson View Post
    Failures in bits of kit are measured by MTBFs, which means Mean Time Between Failures. Those who know anything about statistics will realise this will follow a Normal Distibution curve http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NormalDistribution.html, and your partcular bit of kit could be anywhere on that curve.
    yes but the normal distribution also tells you that you will tend to lie in the centre as this is the highest probability there.. the chances of being in the tails is very low.

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