Any suggestions, please?

[Basil Chupin]

On 11/09/2010 00:29, David Fletcher wrote:
> On Friday 10 Sep 2010, Basil Chupin wrote:
>    
>> On 10/09/2010 23:07, David Fletcher wrote:
>>      
>>> I've not seen anybody else suggest it, so I will.
>>>
>>> Anybody who has a PC who is capable of rebuilding/modifying/repairing it,
>>> should have an ATX power supply tester. They're cheap, easy to use and
>>>        
> give
>    
>>> and instant pass/fail indication. The one I have in my hand also has probe
>>> points to check the voltages with a multimeter if you want to. For the
>>>        
> tenner
>    
>>> or so it cost, it's saved me a great deal of time and trouble.
>>>
>>>        
>> Such a tester is AUD45 plus delivery - which is about half the price of
>> a reasonably decent Antec PSU (although the one now under suspicion is
>> nearly 4 times that price).
>>      
> That converts to GBP27 today which is about twice what I paid for my tester a
> couple of years back. Alternatively you could look here:-
> http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ATX-BTX-PC-Desktop-Computer-Power-Supply-Tester-Tool-/290444159668?pt=AU_Components&hash=item439fd22ab4#ht_3502wt_913
> I cannot endorse this one of course, only say that the Antec branded tester I
> bought has paid its keep.
>
> There's loads more of these priced in AUD from Hong Kong which you could also
> consider.
>
> Dave
>    

I guess it boils down to pragmatism - and how much you have to do with 
PSUs in your daily life.

Considering that since I started fooling around with computers back in 
1984 I have had 4 or 5 PSUs fail on me (the jury is still out on the 
current one) which is not surprising because they were all the $A10 
horrors from Hong Kong installed in the cases I bought.

Spending that amount of money for a tester is that much less money to be 
spent on a decent replacement PSU.

But then that's me :-) .

BC

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