As an owner of an off brand PSU, I can assure you that it's not necessarily the bad experience you make it out to be. I owned a Raidmax RX-850AE. It faithfully served my needs for 7 years. I replaced it about 2 years ago. Unlike the unit above, it wasn't ever loud. And I should know what loud is, given that I used the AMD box cooler from my pre-zen CPU.
As the owner of eyes, I can point out the quoted sentence below.
"This unit is based on a modernization of a platform that has been around for quite some time, which may be very simple by today’s standards but it also is a ****proven design with zero potential for surprises.***"
Yeah, you did. You said it's "not necessarily a negative experience" because yours worked. It's like saying Russian roulette is not necessarily a bad experience because some people survive it... Ok.
I actually bought my Seasonic 850W for $60 but it was used.. they have a 10 year warranty, not sure if it's transferable but then quality is fairly good. Wish more stuff had 10-year warranties, and I don't care what anyone says about it. I miss EVGA.
Those first two fluff paragraphs read like a copy-paste out of someone's company brochure that landed there due to an agreement to add meaningless market-speak as a contingency holding Anandtech hostage to receive future products to review. While that many not really be the case, they are off-putting to say the least an add not a lot of value. They also don't really lay much contextual groundwork for the rest of the article.
It probably is. That, and/or it's written with chatGPT or grammarly or something. Better get used to it, because soon the entire internet will be like this.
It's written by a human. Writing intros is just hard, especially when it's for a commodity product you've already reviewed a few dozen of over the years.
In any case, the feedback is noted and appreciated.
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Techie2 - Thursday, November 16, 2023 - link
Skip this unit and buy something reliable or you'll likely be buying better PSU soon.ballsystemlord - Thursday, November 16, 2023 - link
As an owner of an off brand PSU, I can assure you that it's not necessarily the bad experience you make it out to be.I owned a Raidmax RX-850AE. It faithfully served my needs for 7 years. I replaced it about 2 years ago. Unlike the unit above, it wasn't ever loud. And I should know what loud is, given that I used the AMD box cooler from my pre-zen CPU.
TheinsanegamerN - Friday, November 17, 2023 - link
As the owner of a brain, I can assure you that it isnt worth wasting money on off brand garbage when one failure can take out your entire system.ballsystemlord - Monday, November 20, 2023 - link
As the owner of eyes, I can point out the quoted sentence below."This unit is based on a modernization of a platform that has been around for quite some time, which may be very simple by today’s standards but it also is a ****proven design with zero potential for surprises.***"
flyingpants265 - Friday, November 17, 2023 - link
Yeah, nobody said they had a 100% failure rate.ballsystemlord - Monday, November 20, 2023 - link
Nor did I...flyingpants265 - Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - link
Yeah, you did. You said it's "not necessarily a negative experience" because yours worked. It's like saying Russian roulette is not necessarily a bad experience because some people survive it... Ok.Flunk - Saturday, November 18, 2023 - link
$60 is too much to spend on a questionable quality PSU. There are plenty of reasonable quality PSUs available in that price range.flyingpants265 - Sunday, November 19, 2023 - link
I actually bought my Seasonic 850W for $60 but it was used.. they have a 10 year warranty, not sure if it's transferable but then quality is fairly good. Wish more stuff had 10-year warranties, and I don't care what anyone says about it. I miss EVGA.PeachNCream - Friday, November 17, 2023 - link
Those first two fluff paragraphs read like a copy-paste out of someone's company brochure that landed there due to an agreement to add meaningless market-speak as a contingency holding Anandtech hostage to receive future products to review. While that many not really be the case, they are off-putting to say the least an add not a lot of value. They also don't really lay much contextual groundwork for the rest of the article.flyingpants265 - Friday, November 17, 2023 - link
It probably is. That, and/or it's written with chatGPT or grammarly or something. Better get used to it, because soon the entire internet will be like this.Ryan Smith - Monday, November 20, 2023 - link
It's written by a human. Writing intros is just hard, especially when it's for a commodity product you've already reviewed a few dozen of over the years.In any case, the feedback is noted and appreciated.