amd or intel?

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 22:31:16 +0100, Ben Pope wrote:

I don't wish to single you out because you are not alone, but as an
example you spent $12 on a 600W PSU (am I right?)

Nope, the 600W was $24. 500W $12, and 550W was $15, but the $15 included
shipping.

So you are Average Joe purchasing products based on price, not quality.

I don't think you could find one person that has worked with me call me
average, but I do try for the best bang for the buck. I don't care about
support for computer hardware as I know it quite well. I also know that if
I pay $100 for a PSU, that turns into $200, including the spare. I also
know that the failure rate of the cheap PSU's aren't that much greater
than ones costing 5-10 times as much. And I also know I wouldn't wait for
a warranrty repair/replacement to get my system back up so the warranty is
basiclly worthless to me. I also know that some of the so called major
brands are the same as ones costing 1/5 or less the pice of the major
brands. Of all the PSU's I used in the last 5 years, they are all still
working except one, and that was my fualt for being lazy when the fan
stopped and instead of opening the draweer for an non conductive stick I
have, I stuck a metal screwdriver in it, and one littlle slip was just a
little to far. Now just think how ****ed I'd have been at myself if that
had been a $100 PSU.:-)

For $12 I know you aren't expecting great things from it (or any kind of
customer service, I would hope), hence the spare one, and that is the
extreme end of the scale, but it stuck in my mind!

I've literally built hundreds of PC's for voicemail sytems we sold (and
also maintained). I've seen failures at all ends of the price spectrum and
the high end isn't any better than the low end in general. That includes
MB's, PSU's, CPU's and almost anything to do with with electronics
in desktop PC's. One exception to the low end was when I bought 10 new AT
PSU's for $2 each. They looked like crap and had a 20% failure rate.
Should have stayed with the $5 ones.:-)

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