$20 Power Supply Only good 3-1-2010

[breweyez]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817101050

This is the deal of the day at newegg

Only 2 reviews, but both are good. If I was in need, I would bite. Free shipping also.

 

[llee]

Does anyone have experience with this company?

 

[AFurryReptile]

Looks like a nice find, thanks breweyez!

 

[postmortemIA]

nobody has used it for more than a month, and there is one bad review already.

IMO buy PSU from reliable maker. It will outlast your few builds.

 

[SuperSix]

ePower is the retail arm of Topower, a very good power supply ODM.

For 19.00 - this is a damn good PSU.

 

[BerserkBen]

How the hell is the average rating 5 eggs and 2 out of 4 ratings are 2 eggs and 3 eggs?!? Newegg might be doing some shady shit with their ratings to get people to buy this.

 

[llee]

are there any reviews of this thing? it seems like a hit or miss.

 

[AFurryReptile]

How the hell is the average rating 5 eggs and 2 out of 4 ratings are 2 eggs and 3 eggs?!? Newegg might be doing some shady shit with their ratings to get people to buy this.

3 ratings. 1 of them was today, and hasn't been factored into the total yet. The other two are 5's.

 

[Replay]

Edit: For $20 I'd try this for a modest secondary rig or a budget build for someone.

Plenty of reviews for some of their other models. See a negative review of this one from a self described "high" tech level guy, who does not know what he is talking about. Scanned the other reviews and he is the only guy saying this brand fried his mobo. For my own rigs I stock up on those rare deals for better name brands.

Power Supply Only good 3-1-2010
Deal title gave me a smile, I'm thinking, after 3-1 the thing goes up in smoke.

 

[SunRey]

Thank You!

 

[Artista]

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/290/1/

 

[foxt]

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/290/1/

That review is for a different model, but it speaks well of the brand. The model on sale looks like it may be from a lower end product line from the same brand ...

 

[yh125d]

Yeah epower isn't bad. No Antec or Corsair, but decent. Perfectly fine for a backup/test PSU or in a file server or something

 

[JSquare]

how the hell is the average rating 5 eggs and 2 out of 4 ratings are 2 eggs and 3 eggs?!? Newegg might be doing some shady shit with their ratings to get people to buy this.

12 eggs / 3 ratings = 4 eggs

 

[Macgyversite]

Zoom in at the rear view. Single layer pc board and not a whole lot inside. Very basic power supply. I would recommend a known quality brand instead of price on this one.

Otherwise nice price.

 

[CallMeJoe]

nobody has used it for more than a month, and there is one bad review already.
IMO buy PSU from reliable maker. It will outlast your few builds.

The one bad review is from an idiot:

Fried my motherboard thanks to the 29 amps on the 12 volt rail, beware! I know of NO motherboard that will accept that high of a voltage.

If he doesn't know the difference between voltage and current, any review he posts on a power supply is worthless.

That said, I've never bought a motherboard or processor so cheap that I would risk it on a totally unknown quantity like this ePower product. IMHO, the power supply is the one part of a computer where you can least afford to cut corners.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

That reviewer is an idiot and the review should be ignored.

That said, 29a on the 12v rail seems kind of weak for a 550W power supply.

 

[Oxides]

I had a topower, and i would never buy anything from them again.

It was one of those almost FAR 500w specials. It was suspiciously light weight and died horribly in 2 months, burning smell and coil blown loose. Warranty was useless. They never responded to email or answered the phone.

 

[CurseTheSky]

I wouldn't pay $1 for it.

Power supplies are one of the components in your computer that you REALLY shouldn't cheap out on. Cheap case? No problem. Cheap memory? Ok. Cheap CPU Cooler? No problem.

The power supply is responsible for taking power out of the wall and converting it into something your computer can use. One little screw up can have catastrophic results. Generally speaking, if a stick of memory fails, your computer just starts to act funny or fail to POST. If your PSU fails, it can lead to sparks, smoke, fire, other dead components due to over-voltage, etc.

Buy something that is known to be good. You don't have to spend a TON, but $50 in decent PSU like a Corsair, Antec, Seasonic, etc. can mean $200 less you'll need to spend replacing your dead power supply, motherboard, and processor later on.

 

[Red Dawn]

Yeah it'd be ok if you were piecing together a system from left over parts to sell to some low balling idiot on Craigslist

 

[JSt0rm]

Power supply is an area of a computer build to not cheap out on.