Hmm. That sux. I have an Antec Tru 480 sittng here on the floor as my backup supply. Bought it after reading here and other places that they were OK, and that Enermax had gone downhill somewhat.
Luckily the older Enermax in the tower is still going strong for now. >>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 >> -- JRS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
