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Old 24-01-2011, 00:40   #23
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Re: Power Supply Units

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Originally Posted by ooogemaflop View Post
there are thousands and thousands and thousands of systems sold a year by various big companies in the under 500 quid price range and I would venture a huge % of these have very cheap and basic PSU's and of these systems the vast majority will last the year warranty and well into 3 4 or more years after. Some will fail but so will some of the expensive ones. A basic PSU should be perfectly adequate.
Actually, on this occassion, I agree.

At work, we have hundreds of PCs. I don't have knowledge of every part of every one, but I dare say that they (with very few exceptions) would have the cheapest PSU our supplier could get away with. We have a failure rate of between 1 and 5%. A fraction of those are power supply failures (in fact, more often that not, it's a memory or HDD failure).
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