Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoRedditor finds heavy block of iron shavings inside cheap PSU, also appears to lack safety protectionswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1470arrow-down113
arrow-up1457arrow-down1external-linkRedditor finds heavy block of iron shavings inside cheap PSU, also appears to lack safety protectionswww.tomshardware.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square51fedilink
minus-squareZozano@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up70arrow-down1·11 months agoI’ll also argue you shouldn’t skimp out on a motherboard. I once owned an Asus Ranger VII. When I turned it on for the very first time, it lost its magic dust, and fried my RAM. RMA found the MB was faulty, so they covered the RAM too. This is from ASUS too, so I can only imagine how the chances of this sort of accident rises as you reduce the cost.
minus-squareReaper948@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoI had an ASUS GPU do the same thing once, never had that happen before with any other brand.
minus-squareUltraMagnus0001@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoI think Nexus and Jay found a lot of Asus products had problems.
I’ll also argue you shouldn’t skimp out on a motherboard.
I once owned an Asus Ranger VII. When I turned it on for the very first time, it lost its magic dust, and fried my RAM.
RMA found the MB was faulty, so they covered the RAM too.
This is from ASUS too, so I can only imagine how the chances of this sort of accident rises as you reduce the cost.
I had an ASUS GPU do the same thing once, never had that happen before with any other brand.
I think Nexus and Jay found a lot of Asus products had problems.