Are Thermaltake power supplies a joke
 

After researching a power supply for several weeks to run two 8800 gtx cards I decided on the Thermaltake 1000w. It had great reviews and two seperate rails for the video cards at 36amps each rail and two 20amp rails for other stuff. Wow I thought this will last a lifetime.
Eagerly I awaited the arrival over the weekend. Exitedly put it in the case and switched on. Windows booted and there I was new power supply. My first task was to boot up some software to see what the voltages on the rails were. Before I could do this the computer shut down never to light up with this power supply again. It had lasted a couple of minutes. I bundled it up and spent £20.00 to send it back where it was confirmed faulty.
What a joke!!
I now have no faith to buy another power supply. If this can't run five minutes what chance have the others with 18amp rails. I may now stick with one card and the power supply I have. At least it works.

Thumbs down to Thermaltake for not testing the cr*p before it leaves the factoty!!!

Don't judge too early: you might have been the very unlucky receiver of a product from a faulty batch... it happens with all companies!

I dont think so if you read this about the 600w.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...ting=-1&Page=2

A lot seem to arrive dead or only last a few months!

And this on the 750w
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817153036

And this on the 500w

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817153052

This is a problem with most small companies, Thermaltake once had a respectable clientelle of people, but since they became popular more and more people want Thermaltake stuff.

So they are forced to produce more in a shorter time, and of course who ever they employed as a QC/s isnt doing a great job.

They may have stuck in test kit on the end of the 20/24pin molex and switched it on, 2 seconds later they think "Oh it works, next one"

But after all the bad press and bad batches of PSU's being sent out, its going to tarnish Thermaltake into some action.

I can say that, as a pc shop owner i´ve had some thermaltake returns and i don´t mean only PSUs but coolers as well, in my own personal experience, there´s only one brand i´ve never had a return from, Xilence.

On another note, NOX has just released the Pulsar PSUs, they come in 650 and 750 models, i´ve sold a couple since i got them a couple of weeks ago so it´s to early to know if they´re doing ok, they do look awesome though.

Oh dear!

I'm off to a mates tomorrow to build him a new system, he's bought all new bits to fit in his existing Kandalf case:

XiFi Fatality Soundcard
Asus Crosshair Mobo
BFG OC2 8800GTX
3.2Ghz AMD Dual Core
2Gb Ballistix RAM
Zalman CNPS9000

and.......

Thermaltake Toughpower 850w PSU :eek:

Jeeesus! He'll hit the effin roof (and me) if the PSU pops when it's switched on! I'm dreading tomorrow, thanks for the sleepless night I'll have :mad:

You will not believe this, I swear on my late fathers grave this is true, the Toughpower 850 my mate bought was DOA!!!

Went down today to build the system and when it came to power up, the mobo lit up and the LCD back panel but the PSU would not fire up, no fans spinning, no CPU fan, no hard disks, nothing! Pulled out the 24pin connector and tried to jump start it by shorting the grey/green pins and heard a 'tick' each time I tried from the PSU as though the fan was starting to spin then stopped!

The PSU he took out of his old system is an Enermax 450, so I've took both of these PSU's and tried them on my PC. The Toughpower has a splittable 24pin connector so I split it to 20pin and just plugged that into my mobo and tried to power up the PC, nothing! Tried the Enermax by just plugging the 20pin connector into the mobo and the CPU fan spins up as does the northbridge fan, so it looks like the Toughpower is DEAD!!, so it's an RMA for it tomorrow.

Problem is now, the Kandalf case he has does not look like it could house an Enermax Galaxy 850 PSU (as this is the one he wanted in the first place) as they are over 220mm long I think, my PC Power and Cooling PSU would fit so I'm going to lend him that and use his Enermax in my PC until he gets another one!

To top that off it took me 4 hours to setup a Belkin wireless mimo router on an acer laptop because after pissing about with various settings I found out it would only work on channel 11 in the router :(

couple of things barry, amd 3.2ghz dual core?

there´s no such thing mate :S

Do you mean the AM2 3200+ X2?

as by amd ratings the best is the 6000+ and that´s 3.0ghz by AMD ratings.

if you do mean the 3200+, i would´ve though it would create a bottleneck effect, seems quite low compared to the rest of the spec.

About the kandalf... i would´ve though anything would fit in that beast of a case... and it´s def to expensive of a case to change just for a psu.

Sorry to here your bad news. They shouldn't be allowed to send this junk out.

I am now looking at getting one of these.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2188

60AMP on one rail. No frills just pure power. I have heard they are pretty reliable as well.

http://xtreview.com/images/athlon%20...0picture02.jpg

They are just out.


But I think barry meant to say 2.2 (4.4 X2)

which one is thar dabhand? am i missing something? all i see is amd x2 :confused:

Edit: Just noticed (doh!) 6400+ :O gotta get me some of those : D

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132142

Limited stock though :P

i meant from my supplier to sell in the shop : )

@Simon11: Now that's what you call a sensible decision as I have the same PSU :D Well my mate has it actually seeing as his Thermaltake is DOA and my mobo is fried so I'm using an older mobo with my mates old Enermax 450w PSU!

@Luciel/DAB: It's an AMD X2 6400+ 3.2GHz Black Edition (Multiplier Unlocked), same as the one in the link you supplied DAB!

Luckily the mobo had the 0702 BIOS that supports this CPU already flashed in. System is up and running with my PSU, so it was the Thermaltake PSU that was DOA! It's been sent back for a replacement and my mobo should be back next week too as that was tested faulty, so we now have to wait for our RMA's to come back :(

*UPDATE*

LOL, my mate decided on a Hiper HPU-4M880 880w to replace his RMA'd Thermaltake PSU so sent an e-mail to ask for that, then he saw the Antec TruePower Quattro 1000W PSU so e-mailed for them to change it to that, then read the Antecs were failing and were not powering GTX's and Antec even admitted they had a problem, so now he's FINALLY settled on the Enermax Galaxy 850W EGX850EWL Modular PSU but he's going to phone them up and ask them to change it. What's even funnier is he WAS going to get the Enermax 850w originally but thought it looked too big for his Kandalf case as the roof fan was in the way, so now the roof fan is going and the Enermax is coming :)

well the kandalf is designed for liquid cooling so that might be an option too?