- Joined
- May 10, 2009
Mushkin has a tuesday Bargain Bin these days with some pretty seriously low prices, $20 for 650w PSUs, $35 for 128gb SSDs, that sort of thing.
The downside? 30 day warranty.
I bought two 650w PSUs, tested one and it worked fine, the other I got lazy (uhoh) and did not test.
Last night I decided to test it, so I plugged it into my main box with the intention of doing some light benching, it fired right up, then while in bios it went ZZZOT, gave a blue flash out the back, and was dead as a doornail.
I unplugged and opened it up, and A) the soldering is lousy, B) they didn't wash the flux off after soldering, and C) it's been stored in a wet warehouse! Corrosion everywhere! It's no wonder it failed. So much for giving that to my friend!
I then opened the first one, which worked, and found it to have marginally better soldering, a bit less flux, and plenty of corrosion there, too.
So much for that gift!
Just for giggles I tried to put it into their online RMA form and the form denies the very existence of such a PSU!
Worse, today I checked the bargain bin and found another stack of the same PSUs being sold, so how you're supposed to get warranty service on them is beyond me.
I'm now out $40 (at least they were cheap!), and y'all've been warned: You get what you pay for.
The downside? 30 day warranty.
I bought two 650w PSUs, tested one and it worked fine, the other I got lazy (uhoh) and did not test.
Last night I decided to test it, so I plugged it into my main box with the intention of doing some light benching, it fired right up, then while in bios it went ZZZOT, gave a blue flash out the back, and was dead as a doornail.
I unplugged and opened it up, and A) the soldering is lousy, B) they didn't wash the flux off after soldering, and C) it's been stored in a wet warehouse! Corrosion everywhere! It's no wonder it failed. So much for giving that to my friend!
I then opened the first one, which worked, and found it to have marginally better soldering, a bit less flux, and plenty of corrosion there, too.
So much for that gift!
Just for giggles I tried to put it into their online RMA form and the form denies the very existence of such a PSU!
Worse, today I checked the bargain bin and found another stack of the same PSUs being sold, so how you're supposed to get warranty service on them is beyond me.
I'm now out $40 (at least they were cheap!), and y'all've been warned: You get what you pay for.