Paying a bit more for quality is a good rule of thumb in all areas of performance hardware, be it computers, automobiles, or sports equipment. Buying cheap shit usually means it doesn't work as well and doesn't last as long.

Just picked up a Thermaltake Toughpower 1000W on Friday!

WTF does this mean? Umm, what was it rated for? Were they only pulling 335W from the +12V? or cheating at doing it from +5V? No budget power supply is 75% efficient. You have 20% in like heat loss and then there is conversion loss, and the wattage rating is a combo of all rails. So, yeah, if you pull tooooooooo much current from just +12V the SCR or whatever will overheat and fail. It appears they are pulling all the current from the MB connector.

This is like a Ford video showing a watercooled VW blowing up when you rev the engine at 6000RPM versus an Escort that can run at 9000RPM.

^am I the only one that didn't catch a word of that?

Moving this video to RedSky's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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WTF does this mean? Umm, what was it rated for? Were they only pulling 335W from the +12V? or cheating at doing it from +5V? No budget power supply is 75% efficient. You have 20% in like heat loss and then there is conversion loss, and the wattage rating is a combo of all rails. So, yeah, if you pull tooooooooo much current from just +12V the SCR or whatever will overheat and fail. It appears they are pulling all the current from the MB connector.
This is like a Ford video showing a watercooled VW blowing up when you rev the engine at 6000RPM versus an Escort that can run at 9000RPM.


Not to mention they run it without the cover so fan airflow isn't directly properly. Can't seem to find anything on the rest though, but their results do come off as a bit too coincidental if they weren't stress testing it ...

*beg

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter RedSky.

This test may be biased. But the lesson here is true.

If it offers twice the watts for half the price of the known brands, don't buy it.

This Enermax power supply I bought may be high quality but it trips my damned arc-fault circuit breakers due to the short circuited current on power-on.

I bought a less-than-brand name PSU and it's run great in the year and a half that I've owned it.
Yes, it's generally true that you get what you pay for when it comes to PSUs, and yeah, JD is right - just about any PSU will fail without proper air flow and from yanking all those watts from one connector.

Shouldn't this be categorized as commercial or viral considering it's an advertisement by corsair?

I was waiting for the corsair PSU that runs at these same test specifications but they spared that part. Maybe they tried but failed miserably.

I've had bad experiences with off-brand PSU's, but not like that. Why don't they do the same test under the same conditions with one of their own?