Great PSU Deal

[Rugger]

<A HREF="http://www.actbuy.com/details.asp?item=FS17500-2.0" target="_new">Fortron Blue Storm 500W</A> for $70. That's $20 less than I've seen it before.

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[over_c]

Nice! I got one for $70 off of eWiz in January, but then they stopped carrying it. This is a great PSU.

 

[dunklegend]

Great price. That's the PSU I'm considering buying but the site you linked to is out of stock maybe that's why it's so cheap

 

[slvr_phoenix]

I still don't trust Fortron for longterm use. I'd rather spend a little extra for something dependable.

<pre><font color=purple><i>Jesters do oft prove prophets.</i> -Regan in
King Lear (Act V, Scene iii) by William Shakespear</font color=purple></pre><p>@ 187K -> 200,000 miles or bust!

 

[Unolocogringo]

Why is that??? My 400 is almost 5 years old and still kicking strong.

I aint signing nothing!!!

 

[Cybercraig]

We lost a 3 month old 400 watt FSP in a video server today. Hmmmm..........

Abit IS7 - 3.0C @ 3.6ghz - Mushkin PC4000 (2 X 512) - Sapphire 9800Pro - TT 420 watt Pure Power
Samsung 120gb ATA-100 - Maxtor 40gb ATA - 100
Sony DRU-510A - Yellowtail Merlot

 

[endyen]

Big ? is, what was the psu powering?

 

[slvr_phoenix]

The OEM that my company buys PCs from (which we in turn sell to our customers with software as control devices of our x-ray hardware) uses primarily Fortron. Every PC that we've evaluated with a several day burn-in has held up nicely. But after 6 months some of the Fortron power supplies start degrading from spec and thusly causing problems in those PCs. After two years now nearly all have started to degrade. The Fortron power supplies just aren't holding up to longterm heavy usage.

And it's almost worse than a direct failure because a lower-output PSU undervolts components and causes a wide variety of problems on a PC that will much of the time still run okay, but a flat-out dead PSU is super-easy to diagnose. It's been costing my company a lot of money in support calls and trips even if the PCs are warrantied by the OEM for 3 years.

<pre><font color=purple><i>Jesters do oft prove prophets.</i> -Regan in
King Lear (Act V, Scene iii) by William Shakespear</font color=purple></pre><p>@ 187K -> 200,000 miles or bust!

 

[slvr_phoenix]

Heh, you still prefer the much more expensive Enermax right?

Actually, I'm still partial to Antec TruePower ... and now True2. Smartpowers can kiss my ___ though.

As for "much more expensive", I look at it this way: When building a $1000+ computer, what's another twenty bucks for added dependability? Hell, I spend more than that on a UPS with AVR to protect my investment.

So a dirt-cheap PoS with every corner cut to save costs, sure, why not Fortron? I don't build those, but some do, so maybe it's worth the risk to them.

But to put a Fortron PSU in a PC that's a real investment and I'd expect to last for years? Hell no. There's no place for Fortron there IMHO. It's the same reason I avoid VIA chipsets, Maxtor HDs, <i>anything</i> from MSI, etc., etc. I've just seen too many fail in the past to bother giving them another chance when there are so many more dependable solutions.

Sure, dependability costs a little extra, but in the grand scheme it's worth it to me. That's exactly <i>why</i> I build my own, so that I have exact control of the quality of my PC. If I wanted a PoS with corners cut I'd buy OEM and save myself the assembly time.

<pre><font color=purple><i>Jesters do oft prove prophets.</i> -Regan in
King Lear (Act V, Scene iii) by William Shakespear</font color=purple></pre><p>@ 187K -> 200,000 miles or bust!

 

[apesoccer]

oooh pha-shizzle...that was definately a pass on the right! Foight Foight.

We're so uppity! =D

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