[mythtv-users] Re: Quiet Power Supplies/Quiet PC's

[hayward at slothmud.org]

I'd like to know what brand of low-cost power supplies you are buying, so 
I can start using them.  How much are you paying for them?

--
Brian

>As a general proposition, this is simply untrue.
>
>I've only had 2 power supplies actually themselves fail in the last 10 
>years. One failed just last week in fact, and it was from an expensive 
>($US100) case/PS combination I got in January. The second was a specialized 
>(and expensive power supply for 1U cases, that failed almost out of the 
>box. In contrast, I have many bottom-of-the-barrel case+P/S combos that 
>have lasted 5 years or more.
>
>I have had the *fans* in power supplies fail more often than the power 
>supplies themselves, but I have seen no cost-to-lifetime correlation there 
>either. I have also had problems from using undersized (in wattage) power 
>supplies in some situations.
>
>
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Brian Hayward