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Hiper PSU gone phut, the lament of a PC games addict.

ciber

Posted in hiper, seasonic, gamer, PSU, hardware on November 2, 2007 at 10:05 pm

My PC broke last night. I came home and the lights in my PC were flickering and the fans running on and off when it wasnt turned on, then nothing and a burning smell. Stupid hiper PSU is dead! So, I take the PSU out of my case, this time instead of taking mobo and everything out as you have to if you want to take the PSU out due to the case design, I’ve taken some pliers to my shiny thermaltake tsunami case and performed it’s first case mod so I can pull the PSU straight out. If you count bending part of the chassis roughly out of shape as a case mod lol.

Luckily it is a type r and when I look in the book it has a 3 year warranty and it’s just over 2 years old. Unluckily I rang them this morning and the guy there told me it would take 5-7 days for a repair or replacement after I had sent it back by carrier at my cost, RTB warranty and all that. Damn

So I was feeling a little crazy at work at luchtime thinking of all that time (2 weeks prolly) with no games etc and I decided to look at buying a replacement and putting the old one on ebay when it eventually gets replaced. I’m thinking I could get one delivered on saturday and be up and running asap. After some looking and trying to decide, feeling a bit mad trying to look at reviews and make a decision in my lunch break, some time after I should have started doing some work again I’ve gone a bit mad and spent £140 with scan on a Seasonic X900 900w jobby. Overkill or what lol! I try to reassure myself that the 88% efficiency will save me electric and pay for itself and that it should be good for a couple of upgrades. The thing that did annoy me was that I couldnt select saturday delivery when I was ordereing or even monday, I think maybe some steam was coming from my ears at that point lol. So I have to wait til tuesday. Oh well.

I figure its a good make PSU and has a good surplus of power cpacity for my X1900XTX and overclocked Athlon 64 4000+ and should last longer. The old PSU has a 20A 12v rail and a 18A 12v rail, but my X1900XTX demands according to the book 30A from the 12v supply. So, maybe all 30A was being drawn from 1 of the 12v rails therefore overloading it. Although the PSU has survived the drain of the X1900XTX for at least 18 months. I’m not sure how the electrical engineering of multi rail PSUs works exactly and I was never sure which connector on my hiper PSU was connected to which rail. Indeed maybe these multiple rails may connected somehow, so rails can prop each other up somehow. I see that as a big downside of multi rail PSUs in that although overall power is plenty some rails may be drawing too many amps while others are understressed or not used at all. Well that’s my theory and I’m only theorising I don’t in fact know. Hopefully the new high power PSU wont be stressed much, the rails hopefully will have amps to spare and therefore might actally be working near the stated 88% efficiency. When you’ve got a power hungry gaming PC you worry about how much the electric is costing, at least I do. I really hope it means this one will live longer. I’ve not had great times, my previous q-tec psu only lasted just over a year. In fact the longest lived psu has been the generic one I got with a £15 case, I only replaced that because it was noisy.

In the meantime I’ve stayed at work late so I can check my emails and look at some stuff like custom pc on the internet, as I have no internet, no PC at home. Boss siad fine. I’ve spent prolly the first hour actually doing work and I dont get paid overtime lol. So, here I am at work alone at 10pm, on the internets posting this and feeling I’ve maybe gone mad lol.

 Signing out and going home for a very late dinner, Ciber Wulf

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