Are jeantech psu's any good? trying to choose a 480+ W psu around 40-50 quid and pcworld seem to have tons of these jeantech things, i know that qtech arent the most popular things on here so how about these??
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Are jeantech psu's any good? trying to choose a 480+ W psu around 40-50 quid and pcworld seem to have tons of these jeantech things, i know that qtech arent the most popular things on here so how about these??
well, if they're anything like the cases they'll suck.. (cheap beantech ripoffs)
i have a 300W Jeantech and it's a very noisy thing
I have the jeantech 450W 120mm psu which is very quiet but the quality sucks, I had to tie all the power cables down or I got a ticking noise, I'm currently in the process of changing it.
I'm currently getting either the thermaltake Silent 420W for £35.99 or the antec 400 watt for £36.23 but money is my main issue.
They are crap. For that price you could get a high quality CWT form scan.
I had alittle look around at the CWT psu's they did get good reviews and the close link to antec was pointed out, but once opened there was a quality difference, after my jeantech mistake I'm going for top quality only, but for a cheap option they do sound good.
I bought one of the 500W jobs recently because I needed something within minutes rather than days and it looks (and behaves) exactly like my TT 480W.
Whether that's a one off or both are rebadged from the same source I wouldn't know.
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Originally Posted by VashUK
Interesting... what versions did you look at?
I know there is a slight quality difference, but afaik its all asthetics and not related to performance. Also it misses a fwe rarly used features, such as a -5v rail (only used for parrelel/serial ports, atleast in old boards, im unsure about newer ones...).
I expect there is also a difference in the cabling. The CWT's use a rather messy BTX->ATX connector converter, lack sleeving on any but the main cable, and have far too many cables.
If you've noticed a difference in output rails, e.g giving lower output voltages, that would be result of different components, but does not reflect on the ability of the psu. A simple vsense mod will bring it back up to where it should be without any sacrifices. Ive done this and I know get 5.07v, 12.04v and 3.37v.
The version was the CWT-450BD, it seemed to have lower quality heatsinks and capacitors compared to the top end PSU's (which are supposed to use Rubycon capacitors what ever they are), but in a direct test agains the antec it did do very well.
Like the plague...avoid if possible, best to buy a decent brand PSU that will last through a few upgrades, and be rock solid in your rig if you can afford it.
Holy thread resurrection Batman! :)
I was about to comment but...Quote:
Originally Posted by Clunk
I can't find the link to the post which links to some reports of Antec's bad psus
i would really like to see this list...
http://forums.amd.com/index.php?showtopic=82809Quote:
Originally Posted by nvening
Not too long a thread but worth reading IMO.
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Originally Posted by joely
Qtec = Rubbish tbh
Jeantech = No great either.
If you want a low cost PSU go to Scan and look at:
1). the Xclio Goodpower PSUs. Excellent value for money with clean power. (Even though they state it, i wouldn't recommend using SLI with these).
2). Fortron Bluestorm PSUs. One of the best Bang-For-Buck PSUs around.
Fortron are good and under rated psus IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blitzen
One problem that I had with an older (300 or 350) Bluestorm was the main ATX was so short it wouldn't reach the connector on the motherboard. As the motherboard had a 20pin connector and the psu was 24pin I had to use the converter cable and it reached ok.
Not sure of cable lengths these days.
Buy a Corsair quality will out.
Well I bought a Jeantech 450W 120mm jobbie and I have to say it's been fine. It was very quiet and worked fine in my PC and when I got offered an OCZ 600W at an unrefuseable price the Jeantech went into my son's PC where it has given sterling service for the last couple of years.
Until you have to claim on the warranty after the first yearQuote:
Originally Posted by sammie377
http://forums.hexus.net/psus/108667-...ml#post1099674
Holy thread revival - again - Batman!
Is that a record for thread revival? Twice. lol.
Iv just upgraded my unit with a nvidia geforce 8800 GT graphics card and bourt from PC world a jeantech 1000 w, ATX PSU, which replaced an Master Cooler 450w which im selling for £ 30.00
was given a jeantech, dumped it (noise) bought hiper and found them pretty noisy and the pc occassionally jittered ... bought a 550w corsair and in addition to being now rock stable its now super quiet