The fact they even offered you anything after you used the PSU for 4 years is pretty cool IMHO, pretty sure they don't offer life time warranties.
They have top of the line PS units, I think its a pretty fair offer considering they could have just said NO. I have there 1200Watt unit and am very happy with it.
The fact they even offered you anything after you used the PSU for 4 years is pretty cool IMHO, pretty sure they don't offer life time warranties.
They have top of the line PS units, I think its a pretty fair offer considering they could have just said NO. I have there 1200Watt unit and am very happy with it.
As far as the replacement they offered, I'm on the fence. The VS does look like a slightly lesser PSU than the VX, but in the end they're both budget, entry level, non-modular 450W PSU's.
Not quite. The VX450W was a Seasonic job.
OP, how did you have a VX450 that's only 4 years old? I thought they stopped selling those much longer than that. I'm genuinely curious.
If the VX450W died on the OP in 4 years Corsair isn't being pretty cool for replacing it, they are simply honoring the 5 year warranty.
The VX450 was a very good power supply back in its day, and was made by Seasonic using high quality parts (e.g. Hitachi capacitors).
I actually had a VX450 that exhibited very bad coil whine a few years back. When I RMA'd it through Corsair, they actually replaced it with a TX650 since the VX was out of production.
IMO, the VS450 is not comparable to the VX450. It is clearly a lower-end product than the VX450 was.
VX450: Seasonic OEM, Hitachi capacitors, Adda ball-bearing fan.
VS450: unknown OEM (same as Chieftec based on forum posts), cheap CapXcon capacitors, YL sleeve-bearing fan.
OP, how did you have a VX450 that's only 4 years old? I thought they stopped selling those much longer than that. I'm genuinely curious.
mature language ?
U really mean the mature language(u mean F%#@$ words ?) ?
I have written to Corsair India but they screwing me up too.
Kaizen told Corsair sent the VS450 and ask me to call Corsair India for any queries.
Register a complain at https://corsair.secure.force.com/home/home.jsp but proper reply yet.
I bought at the end of 2010.
Sadly no new reply from Corsair till now.
ThisDude, take the replacement PSU (whatever the hell it is they are going to give you) post it in for sale and buy a different brand PSU.
Corsair whores their products out to anybody and everybody. They have PSU's made by 6 different OEM's from CWT to Seasonic, and without THE INFORMATION BELOW you'll never know what you're actually getting. It's also worth noting not too long ago, CWT (Corsair's primary OEM) was pretty low quality, nearly as bad as Etasis and Andyson (Ultra PSU's.)
Stick with something concrete and you'll have it forever.
http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page447.htm
Quality OEM's are Seasonic, Enhance, and Delta. HEC and FSP quality all over the board but most of them these days are above average...but a decade ago HEC and FSP made some doozies. Most companies have improved, but I still consider CWT, the largest OEM to Corsair, very middling.
Four years is not that short of time. Yeah, you'd like the PSU to ideally last five years without any issues. If I were you I'd check reviews on JonnyGuru before you make any decision. If I were you I'd buy the PSU I want and then save that Corsair PSU you get for troubleshooting. You don't want it as your everyday PSU, but it will be there for use whenever you have issues with your others.