On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 09:19:13 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 08:53:33 UTC, monarch_dodra
wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 08:36:46 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
What exactly do you guys _do_ with your computer that
suddenly breaks the power supplies?! Maybe I'm just too young
to know, but I've never seen a power supply break...
I once tried to do some GPU calculations. After several hours,
the PSU failed, frying my components. The graphics card was
literally ON FIRE (!). Nothing was salvageable.
Anyways, that is what *THAT* is how to kill a PSU, and *THAT*
is what happens when they fail...
Dang that's... intense. o.o
Are laptop power supplies more durable or something?
None of my laptops (or anyone's laptop I know) have had
problematic power supplies...
The difference is that a laptop's wattage is nowhere near the
wattage of a desktop. This is even truer of modern computer,
where desktops consume even more power, whereas laptops are
consuming much less. I've never had a problem with a laptop "PSU
block" itself... Not that I can say the same about the batteries.
I have about 2 laptops at home, whose batteries are left with,
literally, 0 charge. Even a simple split second power cut, and
they fill turn off :(
