Antec PSU's Good or Bad

[lucas_donaldson]

I've used some Antec's and had mixed feelings about them. I had some good and once had 6 PSU's die all at once. Left work on Friday everything was fine, came in on Monday all 6 PC's were dead. Any suggestions? I was thinking of going with a Corsair PSU. I've never tried the Corsair brand PSU. Thanks for any info.

 

[rockyjohn]

See link for latest rankings on a whole multitude of suppliers. Antec seems to be a little above middle in this group.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=108088

You had 6 Pc/s out of how many crash over one weekend? I would strongly suspect something besides the power supply - most particularly dirty power in - GIGO.

 

[lucas_donaldson]

I had 6 out of 6 die. It was the power supply. I searched it on google and found out if that particular model had a plastic tab on the outside they were part of a bad batch. Thanks for the link.

 

[sarsoft]

Maybe there was a storm night before. Surge, spikes in a AC power outlet. Maybe you are not protected by a UPS.

 

[BobA]

I've used some Antec's and had mixed feelings about them. I had some good and once had 6 PSU's die all at once. Left work on Friday everything was fine, came in on Monday all 6 PC's were dead. Any suggestions? I was thinking of going with a Corsair PSU. I've never tried the Corsair brand PSU. Thanks for any info.

Well, as someone else mentioned in this thread, if you had 6 die over a weekend, then something went very bad with your AC in the building.

I currently own an Antec SmartPower 500. It has worked properly for 15 months, but I have read so many reports of failures of this model, yesterday I decided to buy a much better and much more expensive replacement: a Seasonic M12 500.

The last thing I want to happen is to have a PSU failure take out my home built.

Antec has a good rep, generally speaking, but the SmartPower and Truepower series had a run of bad capacitors. Whether or not the current versions of these Antec PSU's have the same problem, I have no idea.

-Bob