you must know, there's a lot different in iCute PSU and Enermax, or watsoever PSU it is...
FYI, i got old system with 200W capalang PSU, which been running almost 9 years (once help my higher end system stay in temporary state though), but it's very risky ok, sooner or later, it'll burn your critical component such as HDD, Graphic Card, Motherboard...
i dare you (Jcsy), burn 4.7GB of data, mutilple run of Prime/Orthos/SP2004, encode/decode video files, run Real Time HDR Lightning, surf site - LY.Net , and check your voltage fluctuation suffered by your PSU - of course run all in simultaneously and overclocked state

Cap helang/ayam/kapak. It fried the PSU together with my processor and my motherboard. Maybe it is because I didn't plug in properly(because it isn't that fully inserted, like a quarter of cm away or less)?

This post has been edited by blindbox: Feb 27 2007, 08:40 AM

Voted for Acbel and I "NOT SO" CUTE, burn my 2 legendary asus mobo..
Maybe too powerful for old rig.. haha!

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Added on February 28, 2007, 10:16 amSo, which manufacturer is is producing good PSU eh?

This post has been edited by rifle_m16: Feb 28 2007, 10:16 AM

been there, done that, and probably went beyond

not exactly the example u have given, but a stress test would be sufficient
prime 95 and do my daily routines, for weeks ( forgot tat it was actually ON)


ive played Counter strike on 1 core , compress a RAR on 1 core, and convert an .avi to .rmvb on 2 cores

yes, it lagged but not that bad

ram was 0, cpu was 100%

and erm, all this was in overclocked mode.. btw
i havent mentioned i do this for fun
i enjoy watching PC performance n stretching it abit
perhaps its my OS which is featherweight

i wouldnt even want 2 mention my taskbar layer and taskbar notification area
they are sometimes a pain 2 any normal computer user

and i do use abnormal applications

has yet 2 fail me , iCute
as long as it didnt give me data lost or crash my pc or spoil my hardware, im ok with it



This post has been edited by Jcsy: Feb 28 2007, 10:35 AM

i got a chapalang PSU that run on my old p3 1ghz rig died last year..serving me well for 8 years now replace wif another chapalang PSU

currently using DELL pc wif it original PSU 305w

chapalang PSU = how much ?
hehehe

nah its cheap wont cost more than 150 or maybe 100

my PSU cost rm 100

lol and u call yours chapalang ? wah branded means rm 300 lra ?

nah..its really chapalang..not a branded 1 i think i bought it last time was RM59

RM 30 to 50(can't remember) for a 400 watt one. That was the one that fried my mobo and processor btw.

i feel i'm kinda lucky it didnt fry any of my hardware

I-Cute failed me for soo many times n now I'm using CoolerMaster n it rocks!!Anyway branded PSUs will cost u more than RM 300...

looks like I-Cute is pretty famous in frying hardware

i guess the people buy icute is because of affordability.
however please rethink, many people buy icute therefore chance of getting bad psu also goes up. For example if u apply 1/10 rules on icute products vs enermax for same volume like 10,000. then you would get back the same figure of bad psu. I am still using Icute all the way and no problem with it. While enermax sales volume lower than Icute therefore seldom hear they encounter bad psu problem which people summarized it as good psu.

yea...agree wif u..I-Cute PSU is really cheap

probably the third time this has been mentioned

the amount of ppl buying iCute is incredibly high

thus higher rate for failure

I doubt you will get the same figure of bad PSU. Enermax PSU is good PSU not because it have less reported bad PSU, but the quality and performance it can give compare to capalang PSU. Do you think that those branded and well famous PSU get their name for nothing? Anyway, I do not have intention to start a war here, and this is just my opinion...

My vote goes to Antec

My Antec Truepower 430W blew up less than 2 years of usage.

u r the 1 who unlucky

My vote goes to Enlight

i have asemble many PC's for sales, mainly Enlight psu blow out.