Come on everyone here ... it's not about the brand only it's about the product itself...

if the PSU claim it's true power than it cheat on it, the company can be sue for dishonest product ..

however if it does not claim it's true power than why try to prove it cheat the customer ??? there's no any wording found on the packaging and PSU
itself claiming it's true power .... of course it can't perform like a true power PSU >>....

This post has been edited by Doom: May 10 2007, 09:54 PM

for the price and performance provided even though not true power (there's no truepower indicated on the item as well), the performance is still acceptable!

i'm with doom and max_cjs0101, this is not a cheat/con case... buyer have to be a smart consumer. Research before purchase.

If it does state truepower in the extreme series, then I am gonna get one and sue Coolermaster off their pants!

This post has been edited by edministrator: May 10 2007, 10:03 PM

True. Coolermaster didn't said that it's true power psu. the true power psu series goes to the higher end & more expensive Real Power.

when you buy something, get from a reputable manufacturer. in my book, CM is definitely no one of them. PC&P, SIlverstone, FSP, Enermax, etc

Agreed. My CM real power 450W psu died after 8 months. Ive seen some cap ayam psu's last longer. RMA service also useless, took 3 months+ and a lot of complaining to get a new 1. Now I found out that it cant run an 8800gts. Safe to say the next power supply I buy WONT be a cm

This post has been edited by joe_star: May 11 2007, 09:42 AM

If its within your warranty period then yes, but usually any of your parts that might also die in the process wont be covered.

After reading all your comments.. I noticed that most of you guys are really brand conscious at the bottom line.

I don't really look at brand, I believe Intel also don't believe in brand but more on specs. That is why Intel come out with ATX 12V1.x ~ ATX 12V2.2 and so on.

If you tries to studies these spec from various PSU manufacturers.

Most of them only ATX 12V2.0 or ATX 12V2.01 thing like that. Very seldom you see ATX 12V2.2

I only found Fortron SAGA series, a mid end PSU with ATX 12V2.2 and it works great for me all this while.

A lot of psu supplier comes from cooler manufacturer, because it helps them sell their cooler, cooler master & themaltake are just some example.

I personally look a manufacturer experience and their expertise. If you tries to study Fortron, you will notice their main line are basically Power Supplies, therefore I presume they must know exactly what they are doing in psu.

There are psu manufacturers only stress on looks, and modular design. Meaning Power cable with connector attached to the psu. From my pass experience, these design are crap because these connection will tend to oxidised and cause a lot of problems.

Finally, to produce true wattage from a Psu, The switching transformer plays the most vital roles. It must be built using higher gauss copper wire which make them bigger when you examine from the psu vent, and then couple with huge heat sink on the switching fet and rectifier to ensure they don't overheat. This will gives you a rough estimate whether the psu is delivering as what it claims.

This post has been edited by chek: May 11 2007, 08:32 PM

Although your assertions are credible. I can't fully agree with them. First of all, topology is matter, (Full bridge, dual forward ZVT.....) and what topoly it is and can be, we do not know and such can seriously affect the performance and the efficiency of a power supply, not to mention all it's other characteristics.

I'm very much a firm believer in the simple ideal that in PSUs, it's characteristics doesn't matter, just what comes out. Although you generally and gauge the quality of the PSU with it's parts, what matters most is it's output and it's ability to deliver that output in a reliable fashion for long periods of time.