Personal computing discussed
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Flying Fox wrote:My HX650 (first gen) has been in service for almost 10 years. And at most I would be on 50% load. So I think my unit can last a bit longer?
The Swamp wrote:Enermax is a name I've forgotten about. I never see anything offered by them anymore. I remember when they were the top choice for power supplies around 1999-2000. They made a 300W unit that was awesome. I went through a time when I bought a lot of Antec units, but they were not that reliable. Lot of them died after a couple of years. I stopped using them because they just didn't last that long. That was probably around the time I got the Turbo Cool and didn't need another power supply for eight years.
just brew it! wrote:The Swamp wrote:Enermax is a name I've forgotten about. I never see anything offered by them anymore. I remember when they were the top choice for power supplies around 1999-2000. They made a 300W unit that was awesome. I went through a time when I bought a lot of Antec units, but they were not that reliable. Lot of them died after a couple of years. I stopped using them because they just didn't last that long. That was probably around the time I got the Turbo Cool and didn't need another power supply for eight years.
Antec's PSU line got hit pretty hard by the capacitor plague. I had a few of them die that way.
Redocbew wrote:I got a PSU from Silverstone on Amazon a few days ago. Stock has indeed been pretty thin. Amazon's tagline of "we don't know when or if this will be back in stock" used to mean the thing was dead and probably not coming back, but recently it's been a temporary thing that'll show up for a day or two until they get more stock from somewhere and then it disappears.
The Swamp wrote:I'm hopeful it won't be like the video card market during the Bitcoin mining craze.
Redocbew wrote:Some interesting stuff in this GN video. I wouldn't have thought the shortages were caused by both a supply and a demand problem, but I guess they are.
https://youtu.be/0whCHfejM18
just brew it! wrote:The Swamp wrote:Enermax is a name I've forgotten about. I never see anything offered by them anymore. I remember when they were the top choice for power supplies around 1999-2000. They made a 300W unit that was awesome. I went through a time when I bought a lot of Antec units, but they were not that reliable. Lot of them died after a couple of years. I stopped using them because they just didn't last that long. That was probably around the time I got the Turbo Cool and didn't need another power supply for eight years.
Antec's PSU line got hit pretty hard by the capacitor plague. I had a few of them die that way.