Are Thermaltake power supplies a joke

[BarryB]

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

[Luciel]

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.

[simon11]

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.