Is Turbolink that bad

[ogboot]

i'm selling a box to a friend, deal is i throw it in a cooler looking case. found one that has a turbolink psu, is this bad? the system is running on a pctoys 300w psu now, surely the turbolink is better than that crappy psu.

 

[Xenocide]

my turbolink 420 is stable as a rock. better than my vantec stealth 420 which went up in flames...

 

[ogboot]

cool, its not an overclocking rig, so i figured it would be fine, hell its on a generic psu right now.

 

[Nebulous]

For a non-oc'ed rig, Turbolink isn't a bad psu. It should do fine.

 

[larrymoencurly]

I saw pictures of two 420W TurboLinks with model numbers starting with "CWT", but they looked very different inside. One was by Real Power and was probably junk because it had a puny transformer lacked any EMI filter. The other had to be by CWT -- Channel Well Technology (Antec SmartPower, Solution Series, TruePower) because one of the transformers had "CWT" printed on it, and it looked a lot like my SmartPower, only one of the heatsinks was an upside-down "L", like those often found in Fortrons, complete with lots of small holes drilled in the horizontal part. I'm sure that its circuit design was also completely different (2 transformers instead of 3 like the Real Power version). I don't know how to tell one from the other by the model numbers, but maybe that can be obtained by checking the UL or CSA registration numbers at www.ul.com or www.csa.ca .

 

[Oklahoma Wolf]

The Real Power Enterprise unit is much lighter than the CWT unit... the UL file number should also reveal the truth there too. I have the CWT 420w model Turbolink claimed to be using - it's quite heavy and has that big L shaped heatsink LMC was mentioning. One of the easiest ways to tell a CWT model is to look for the markings on the transformers - CWT winds their own and I haven't seen one of their PSUs not have those letter stamped on at least one.

Turbolink is all over the place quality wise. Some models are Deer - those should be avoided. IIRC the Real Power 420w is Powmax quality... won't self destruct but it runs out of power fast. The CWT models will last years, but will be somewhat anemic under the 420w (which is a nice PSU). I would head to www.ul.com, trace the file number under the backwards "UR" and make a decision on whether or not to keep it from there.