foolkiller
19 Feb 2009, 5:24am
I drove to Toronto on Saturday with a buddy of mine, 3 hour drive for us. Picked up some stuff from Canada Computers:
Asus P6T Deluxe Motherboard
6GB Patriot 1600 Mhz DDR3 RAM
Core i7 920
PC Power and Cooling 750 Watt PSU
Coolermaster 590 Case
Fans, etc
Anyways, we get all the way back home, at like 11 PM. Buddy starts building his shiny new system (His first build.) and after he gets it all setup, cleans up his wires, the PSU is DoA (I told him he broke Murphy's law when he routed the wires and put the case back together before a power up.)
Needless to say, he was pretty pissed off about it, and I grabbed a 750 Watt el Cheapo from the shop to get him going until I could replace it. He's opted for an Antec 850 Watt Modular PSU instead of replacing with another PC Power and Cooling because he's gun shy now, and that's what I happen to have. I picked one up for him today, and had it tested in the store since they wanted the screws out of it (Can you believe they actually complained about 4 missing standard case screws?)
While I haven't sold many of these units myself, I always heard good things about them. Has something changed with them, or did we just get shitty luck and pick a bad one from the bunch?
Asus P6T Deluxe Motherboard
6GB Patriot 1600 Mhz DDR3 RAM
Core i7 920
PC Power and Cooling 750 Watt PSU
Coolermaster 590 Case
Fans, etc
Anyways, we get all the way back home, at like 11 PM. Buddy starts building his shiny new system (His first build.) and after he gets it all setup, cleans up his wires, the PSU is DoA (I told him he broke Murphy's law when he routed the wires and put the case back together before a power up.)
Needless to say, he was pretty pissed off about it, and I grabbed a 750 Watt el Cheapo from the shop to get him going until I could replace it. He's opted for an Antec 850 Watt Modular PSU instead of replacing with another PC Power and Cooling because he's gun shy now, and that's what I happen to have. I picked one up for him today, and had it tested in the store since they wanted the screws out of it (Can you believe they actually complained about 4 missing standard case screws?)
While I haven't sold many of these units myself, I always heard good things about them. Has something changed with them, or did we just get shitty luck and pick a bad one from the bunch?