AZ Nomad wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 03:25:56 GMT, Vey wrote:

AZ Nomad wrote:

You won't be saying that the first time the PS fails ungracefully and wipes out
your entire system.

My first power supply failure happened like that. I guess it was in
1993. Took the motherboard and the hard drive so I know what you mean.
Still, I do what I do for a reason. I have spent way too much and sen
bad things happen, too. Price is not the telling factor.

When you're talking about $10 power supplies, I assume you talking about
the ones that come free with a $25 case and weigh about 1/5th as much
as a quality supply. I wouldn't use one of those crap supplies
if you paid me $200.

There's no reason to buy crap when high-quality
Fortron-Source/Sparkle/Hi-Q/PowerQ costs only slightly more or when
Antecs are frequently on sale with big rebates, such as the Fry's 350W
SmartPower + case deal for $25 last Thursday. A month earlier almost
the same thing was $15, or you could get a 500W SmartPower alone for
that.