Comments | jeff_simpson: PSU Fail

jeff_simpson

PSU Fail

Oct 23, 2009 11:57

A week or two ago, my motherboard died. At the same time, my power supply was starting to make some high-pitched noises I wasn't too happy with. Antec was very good about it and issued an RMA. Well, yesterday, it just arrived. There's some bad news.

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nategodin October 23 2009, 19:18:57 UTC

Bummer about the power supply... thanks for reminding me, though, I have a noisy power supply to send back to Antec. The fan in the Earthwatts 500 that came with my Sonata III case was making a really awful grinding noise intermittently, so I got a Corsair 520HX to replace it. Evidently Antec has some PSU quality control issues... they do make nice cases, though.

Speaking of RMAs... another Asus motherboard? Really? Even after they sent your old one back to you all melty-cornered? It's not like you have much choice these days (sic transit Abit), but Gigabyte makes some very nice boards. I can only personally vouch for their AMD boards, though... I'm guessing that since you have three DIMM slots, you must have an Intel i7 or i5?

jeff_simpson October 23 2009, 19:27:24 UTC

That's not my photo - I just googled for a photo of the P182 that showed the power supply section clearly. My new board IS an asus, though (a P5Q LGA775 board) - I bought it off-the-shelf at microcenter to help determine if my other board was broken. I'm running a quad-core 2.4ghz intel (Q6600, I think).

I got asus originally for the linux support (which they do quite well) and features (dual gigabit ethernet, triple IDE, lots of sata, built-in wifi, etc). The replacement board doesn't even have dual ethernet, firewire, or eSata.

Now that I think about it, my last Antec supply died and had to be RMA'd, too. It was a 350W, so when they sent me a new one, I ended up gaving it to Emily when her power supply died. I had already upgraded to a 500W and didn't see any situation in the future where a 350W would even work as a backup.

nategodin October 23 2009, 20:58:58 UTC

Yeah, I recall reading about Asus doing some interesting stuff with Linux in the BIOS. There seem to be no compatibility issues with my Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5, although I would like to swap my Phenom 9600 out for a newer Phenom II that doesn't have the TLB bug. *Something* makes my computer randomly reboot every once in a while, and having replaced the power supply, the CPU is next on the list of suspects.

We're not the only dissatisfied Antec customers... re-discovered this little gem while searching my e-mail just now:

http://www.pjrc.com/about/rambling/antec.html