[H] Antec TruePower is OUT

[Greg Sevart]

So, I have lost all faith in Antec's power supplies. I have three of them 
here...two of them have died in the last two weeks. They exist in different 
ZIP codes, so it wasn't a surge. Both are behind UPS. The first simply 
stopped providing a high +5v rail, the second went snap, crackle, pop, and 
smoke tonight while I was typing an essay. Both were True550's...two dead 
within two weeks is enough to scare me away. I was even willing to forgive 
the first failure...but not two.

So what did I replace it with? A Seasonic S12 600W. $188 shipped next-day 
air from Newegg. I would have liked to have gone with a PCP&C Turbo-Cool 
510W, but that would have been >$250 by the time you include next day air 
shipping. Sparkle/FSP doesn't make a unit that provided the sort of 
current/rail combinations I was looking for.

Luckily, my hard drives appear to have survived the failure. I have no idea 
if the motherboard/CPUs/RAM/cards are still OK, as my emergency FSP 400W is 
out on loan, and all other power supplies are back at home.

Bleh.
Greg