power supplies you should review [Archive]

shovenose

11-04-2010, 07:57 PM

disclaimer: i understand that you dont have unlimited time + money, but here are some i would be interested in seeing reviewed:

-fsp atx-300pa
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817104951
-antec basiq bp550
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371016
-corsair cx430
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139017
-ocz mxs pro 700
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341018
-rosewill extreme 80plus 850w
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182072

jonnyGURU

11-04-2010, 09:05 PM

Buy 'em.. send 'em... we'll review 'em.

McSteel

11-04-2010, 09:26 PM

Persuading the manufacturers to send a review sample would probably work too :P

MrWicked1968

11-04-2010, 10:02 PM

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2008/11/12/ocz_700w_modxstream_pro_power_supply/9

Paul Johnson (Spectre) has already reviewed the 700w ModXstream, and found it lacking.

the fsp isn't worth reviewing because it isn't worth buying, not when there are 300w seasonic psu's that can be had for the same price.

the cx430 isn't as good as the psu it replaces, the CX400.

the antec is a decent enough Delta build and the Rosewill is a decent enough aTNG, neither will kill your system, but there are better PSU's available for the price

shovenose

11-04-2010, 10:18 PM

Buy 'em.. send 'em... we'll review 'em.

lol i was more thinking you convince the manufacturers to send them...or YOU buy them...

MrWicked1968

11-04-2010, 10:30 PM

it's a stone cold guaranteed lock that the Sunmoon will blow up that Pixxo.

MrWicked1968

11-04-2010, 10:40 PM

as long as you're willing to pay for any potential damage to the SunMoon. Wolf had a bad PSU damage his when it released the magic smoke.

Tazz

11-04-2010, 11:10 PM

Corsair has already stated they wont be sending out the builder series units for review.

shovenose

11-04-2010, 11:13 PM

Why not? I think they dont want to show that their new psus are shit.

Tazz

11-04-2010, 11:18 PM

Quoted from another thread.

we are not sending it out for stand alone reviews at this time. We can participate in roundup for the same price range or head-to-head comparison against same price point product.

shovenose

11-04-2010, 11:27 PM

I think someone was really really bored and was like "aw man im bored let me fuck with the review sites and mak up random bs so people are less likely to find out how shitty our new rabadged powmax"...

Tazz

11-04-2010, 11:33 PM

Here... Read this (http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7081) thread.

shovenose

11-05-2010, 12:06 AM

aha. are we sure that the ceo of powmax didnt just replace the previous ceo of corseir :lol:

Zero82z

11-05-2010, 12:39 AM

shovenose, I bet if you had a website, you wouldn't appreciate some new guy coming in and telling you how they think you should run it.

Tator Tot

11-05-2010, 12:40 AM

Just as a heads up; Rosewill Xtreme Series 750w & 850w were both reviewed here
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=60

MrWicked1968

11-05-2010, 01:24 AM

shovenose, I bet if you had a website, you wouldn't appreciate some new guy coming in and telling you how they think you should run it.

then he wouldn't have to come here in an attempt to sell crap he's allegedly "refurbished" himself.

rafal_iB_PL

11-05-2010, 05:12 AM

then he wouldn't have to come here in an attempt to sell crap he's allegedly "refurbished" himself.

Hey, why won't he donate some of his refurbs for testing?

-fsp atx-300pa
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817104951

This one is old. No APFC, and quite certainly low efficiency.

Tazz

11-05-2010, 05:33 AM

Hey, why won't he donate some of his refurbs for testing?

I doubt that you could get any of us to put one on our testers... Unless someone else is willing to flip the bill when something goes Boom!

jonnyGURU

11-05-2010, 08:00 AM

Persuading the manufacturers to send a review sample would probably work too :P

Actually, no. Most manufacturers are "alienated" by our testing methodology and won't send us product because they know we'll blow it up and shun them.

Elledan

11-05-2010, 08:13 AM

Actually, no. Most manufacturers are "alienated" by our testing methodology and won't send us product because they know we'll blow it up and shun them.

Which does say a lot about the product in question, I reckon :)

shovenose

11-05-2010, 10:19 AM

I doubt that you could get any of us to put one on our testers... Unless someone else is willing to flip the bill when something goes Boom!

Thats really insulting.

McSteel

11-05-2010, 10:27 AM

Actually, no. Most manufacturers are "alienated" by our testing methodology and won't send us product because they know we'll blow it up and shun them.

While I definitely wasn't being serious with my comment, I never realized the manufacturers were down to this level of pathetic. It's amusing, actually.

rafal_iB_PL

11-05-2010, 10:36 AM

Haha, they're even worse than that. Eg. Tagan's rep's opinion about some review of their PSU at [H].

Oklahoma Wolf

11-05-2010, 10:48 AM

or YOU buy them...

With what money? After paying for the Sunbeam, I might make enough off that review to buy one meal at a restaurant up here. I have a four figure yearly income :(

shovenose

11-05-2010, 12:58 PM

What?!
Dont you make money off advertisements on the site? The more psus you review the more pageviews

McSteel

11-05-2010, 01:08 PM

Yeah, and running the site is free, so it's all pure profit. :rolleyes:

Spectre

11-05-2010, 01:22 PM

Actually, no. Most manufacturers are "alienated" by our testing methodology and won't send us product because they know we'll blow it up and shun them.

Seriously, there have always been ebbs and flows to what people were sending out for review....but lately no one is sending anything it seems. And if they do it is only the absolute top product from their premium line.....if they are even responding to emails anymore.

Tator Tot

11-05-2010, 02:50 PM

While I definitely wasn't being serious with my comment, I never realized the manufacturers were down to this level of pathetic. It's amusing, actually.
They do the same in the Video Game business. Even though those reviews are purely opinion based.

Some companies won't send reviewers a game till after it's been on the market for a week or two. Or at all, because previous games from that developer or series have gotten bad reviews.

Which is why you see so many people complaining about game reviews and them being hogwash.

Oklahoma Wolf

11-05-2010, 03:03 PM

Dont you make money off advertisements on the site? The more psus you review the more pageviews

Bandwidth costs money.

Tazz

11-05-2010, 04:07 PM

Thats really insulting.

So then if you had a few thousand bucks in a test setup, you would have no problem in testing a PSU that someone else took apart, made some sort of repair?

Personally, I would need a little more proof than just a few posts saying "I refurbish PSUs", before I would.

It takes more than just a few bucks a month to run a site like this. I don't know why people seem to think these things happen for free.