I've had numerous Antec supplies die as well. Some of them erupted into a shower of smoke and sparks, and others just dropped the +5v rail.
CWT (Channel Well Technology) was the OEM of Antec units during their worst phase. Supposedly CWT units are good now (Corsair switched to them after their initial SeaSonic-based units did so well), but I'm still staying the hell away. I think Antec mostly uses Delta now. > -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of maccrawj > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 8:21 AM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] something is going on at PCP&C > > No more Antec for me! > > After a caps fiasco killed 2 supposedly "premium" PSU's that were used > < 12mo/ea. > They refused to give consideration that despite warranty being expired, > the units > clearly had manufacturing flaw vs. dying from old age and and the > replacement had sat > for almost a year before being put to work only to die <6mo later. > > Of course when I opened the barely 6mo dead replacement unit, all the > popped caps > were a known crap hu-flung-dung brand. Dunno who OEM'd them for antec > but I stay away > on principal for getting burned! > > > > On 1/26/2010 5:38 PM, James Boswell wrote: > > I had some terrible reliability problems with various models of antec > PSU a couple of years ago, had several models all develop dead +12v > power for the cpu connector in a fairly short timeframe, and that kinda > put me off. > > pretty much everything I've got or maintain has an Enermax or Corsair > unit in it, and I've had no trouble with them. > > > > Also had good results from Tagan units. > > > > On 26 Jan 2010, at 20:10, Neil Davidson wrote: > > > >> Antec, Corsair and Enermax PSUs get a lot of rep from forums I'm on. > >> > >
