Seasonic goes BOOM!
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I didn’t realise it at the time, however my 3rd Seasonic PSU in 2 months was dying…
I actually thought some kids had thrown a fire cracker into my warehouse, but after much head scratching I noticed one of my rigs was dead… Made a right bang as it gave up…
My local supplier was really good about it, swapped it over for a new unit immediately, but when I went back to the warehouse to install it I noticed the motherboard was dead as well.
It takes a lot to kill a Gigabyte UD3, they are rock f*cking solid, I’m gonna swap it over tomorrow but I’m also wondering what else is dead.
So what actually happens when a PSU dies? Does it just die or does it send a charge of power through your system bricking everything???
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I thought Seasonic were one of the miners weapon of choice?
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I thought Seasonic were one of the miners weapon of choice?
The 2 previous ones died in the middle of the Aussie Summer and they were in an outdoor shed with a tin roof, so I can sort of understand those 2. But it’s nice and cool in Melbourne these days so I was really surprised.
I was pulling 980 watts from a 1250w Gold unit, the chap in the repairs department said you can normally push the Seasonics much harder than the rated wattage as well.
Must be bad luck…
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Is there nowhere that does independent failure rate reports?
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I found this…
Average Failure rates:
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Cooler Master 0,98% (vs 1,01% year before)
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Fortron / FSP Group 0,99% (vs 0,42% year before)
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be quiet! 1,15% (N/A)
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Antec 1,23% (vs 1,17% year before)
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Thermaltake 1,98% (vs 2,36% year before)
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Corsair 2,18% (vs 2,30% year before)
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Seasonic 2,36% (vs 2,20% year before)
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Great, in my new batch of rigs I swapped PSU’s out to Cosair, the 2nd worst…
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Oh and the GA UD3 is fine, I swapped 2 PSU’s with my supplier and they gave me a dead one, so I thought the Mobo was dead as well.
So my love affair with this motherboard remains as strong as ever :D
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Well usually the Seasonic owners tend to push their psu’s extra hard. that beeing said. I have 8 rigs with seasonic/xfx, not a single fail. running for over 6months 24/7 rocking 3-4 cards 7970/280X (3 now after remodeling)
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Oh and the GA UD3 is fine, I swapped 2 PSU’s with my supplier and they gave me a dead one, so I thought the Mobo was dead as well.
So my love affair with this motherboard remains as strong as ever :D
Stfu…
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Oh and the GA UD3 is fine, I swapped 2 PSU’s with my supplier and they gave me a dead one, so I thought the Mobo was dead as well.
So my love affair with this motherboard remains as strong as ever :D
Stfu…
Nothing like giving yourself a bit off hard time now is it :D
