Who's Who In Power Supplies, 2014: Brands Vs. Manufacturers

[Blaise170]

*** I don't mean to be rude, but are you seriously mentally deficient with that last line?
SWISS IS EUROPEAN. WESTERN. I was speaking on an abstract, civilizational level. WEST and EAST. sort of thing. ***

Mentally deficient; how is not trying to be rude? As far as I'm aware of, when you say western, most people will refer to the United States region, not European region since it's nowhere near the western side of a world map. Maybe next time you should clarify a little better before flaming someone.

Western society... It was originally a descriptor for Europe, and since Europeans settled the Americas, it has come to mean both North America and Europe...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture

 

[Spoonguard]

Some of the Table Images in the article are broken, what gives? It looks like an extremely misguided way to save bandwidth.

 

[canadianvice]

*** I don't mean to be rude, but are you seriously mentally deficient with that last line?
SWISS IS EUROPEAN. WESTERN. I was speaking on an abstract, civilizational level. WEST and EAST. sort of thing. ***

Mentally deficient; how is not trying to be rude? As far as I'm aware of, when you say western, most people will refer to the United States region, not European region since it's nowhere near the western side of a world map. Maybe next time you should clarify a little better before flaming someone.

Thank you.
I've literally never known it to be used to refer strictly to geography.

Regardless, my point is the Chinese make crap but can get away with it, so they do. Western companies, if nothing else, work in stores that offer return policies, and generally the companies themselves will do right by a reasonable consumer. Sure, some people get screwed, but it's not listed as Monday's objective metric like it is from Chinese companies.

If nothing else, it's a power supplies thread, so take this warning: ThermalTake is crap. Utter crap. Not even 3 months and my younger brother's PSU was popping.

 

[Blaise170]

Thank you.
I've literally never known it to be used to refer strictly to geography.

Regardless, my point is the Chinese make crap but can get away with it, so they do. Western companies, if nothing else, work in stores that offer return policies, and generally the companies themselves will do right by a reasonable consumer. Sure, some people get screwed, but it's not listed as Monday's objective metric like it is from Chinese companies.

If nothing else, it's a power supplies thread, so take this warning: ThermalTake is crap. Utter crap. Not even 3 months and my younger brother's PSU was popping.

You do realize that most of power supply OEMs are Chinese right? Seasonic, Superflower, etc. Also ThermalTake have good PSUs too, namely their several series of Tough Power PSUs.

 

[canadianvice]

Thank you.
I've literally never known it to be used to refer strictly to geography.

Regardless, my point is the Chinese make crap but can get away with it, so they do. Western companies, if nothing else, work in stores that offer return policies, and generally the companies themselves will do right by a reasonable consumer. Sure, some people get screwed, but it's not listed as Monday's objective metric like it is from Chinese companies.

If nothing else, it's a power supplies thread, so take this warning: ThermalTake is crap. Utter crap. Not even 3 months and my younger brother's PSU was popping.

You do realize that most of power supply OEMs are Chinese right? Seasonic, Superflower, etc. Also ThermalTake have good PSUs too, namely their several series of Tough Power PSUs.

And I buy none of them

Give me Corsair any day.

 

[Azar Javed]

I know this has already been mentioned, but I'd like to bring this up again: Some of the images in the review are downscaled to an unreadable level now, effectively making the information contained in them unavailable.

I'm still relying heavily on this article, so that's just very bad. Please provide the original images again (or do this with tables+text or CSS+text the next time, so everything becomes searchable as well?)

I'll go and check the wayback machine next, maybe they'll still have the old pix...

 

[Blaise170]

And I buy none of them

Give me Corsair any day.

Erm, Corsair uses Seasonic and CWT for almost all of their units, both of which are headquartered in Taiwan. Their AX1500i is the only one I know of that isn't Taiwanese, being made by Flextronics.

 

[falchard]

It took me more time to research my current rigs PSU than it did all the other components combined. I went with a Corsair AX650.
To this day my favorite hardware review was on a 900w PSU for $5 on Newegg. Curious on why it was $5 I took a look to see only 2 reviews. Both their PSUs caught fire within minutes of being turned on.

 

[Darkbreeze]

I think it's definitely time for another refresh. There have been an extraordinary number of OEM changes across the board and almost none of what's listed here is still relevant, aside from very old units. This is an essential resource and I think keeping it relevant should be a priority.

 

[Joker41NAM]

Did something happen to this list? The first two screens of PSU Makers (0-B & C-D) are tiny pictures, rather than readable charts.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Yes, the site has been doing that again lately on some articles with images. Hopefully they address it. The data here is so out of date by now anyhow, with all the OEM changes that have happened and new models being released over the last year and a half, that it almost doesn't matter anyhow. You can find much of the most common OEM data here:

http://www.orionpsudb.com/

 

[capricorn]

Images on page 3 0-9, A-B and page 4 (C-D) are still tiny, tiny, tiny.