How Power Supplies Are Made (2020) PSU Factory Tour, ft. Cooler Master
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Date: 2020-05-06
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Ross
Another interesting video Steve! I had never had any psu issues until 2017 where I had two fail in the same way within 6 months of each other. The unit in question was the rm650x from Corsair, each unit produced a loud bang when the rocker switch was turned on after a PC clean. This completely blew capacitors and rendered the units dead. I RMA'd both PSUs to ebuyer who have the ability to test hardware in the UK and they told me they had had several do the same thing but that they continued to sell them. Weird. Since then, I did some digging and found many many reviews on amazon reporting the same failures. Please Gamers Nexus, can you test this PSU? Unless of course you've got a little deal with Corsair that you don't want to jeopardise. Love the content as always.
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Another interesting video Steve! I had never had any psu issues until 2017 where I had two fail in the same way within 6 months of each other. The unit in question was the rm650x from Corsair, each unit produced a loud bang when the rocker switch was turned on after a PC clean. This completely blew capacitors and rendered the units dead. I RMA'd both PSUs to ebuyer who have the ability to test hardware in the UK and they told me they had had several do the same thing but that they continued to sell them. Weird. Since then, I did some digging and found many many reviews on amazon reporting the same failures. Please Gamers Nexus, can you test this PSU? Unless of course you've got a little deal with Corsair that you don't want to jeopardise. Love the content as always.
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Nicolas
When i build my actual computer, about two years ago all the fans was spining but no sings of life. I brought some ram, do some troobleshooting, put my gpu un an known good and compatible computer, nothing seems to be bad, so i contacted asrock, i ship my presumely bad motherboard and they sent me a new one. it was the problem, an out of the box dead motherboard. The cool part, is it takes only a month and totaly free (the new motherboard was shipped form sorthen california and i live in Quebec, canada. At the oposite. So, it was pretty good and it solve the problem. Since two years, i never needed to open my case. (i have dust filters on all fan intake) and i check some times how mush dust is in my computer, and it's just some plaster dust (non conductive)
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When i build my actual computer, about two years ago all the fans was spining but no sings of life. I brought some ram, do some troobleshooting, put my gpu un an known good and compatible computer, nothing seems to be bad, so i contacted asrock, i ship my presumely bad motherboard and they sent me a new one. it was the problem, an out of the box dead motherboard. The cool part, is it takes only a month and totaly free (the new motherboard was shipped form sorthen california and i live in Quebec, canada. At the oposite. So, it was pretty good and it solve the problem. Since two years, i never needed to open my case. (i have dust filters on all fan intake) and i check some times how mush dust is in my computer, and it's just some plaster dust (non conductive)
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SylwerDragon
From professional point of view. All looks good. What surprised my was that really really dirty soldering Owen. Place where melted solder was doing soldering of HMT components. That Owen needs cleaning for sure. and what was that cartoon board doing there(it was probably some metal sheet). rust all over the place. come on. I know it is about 20 years old but still it should not be so rusted. where was the maintenance done on it. That should change. :) Also another remark. even it was final inspection and maybe it wasn't necessary to have so high protection. i was missing ESD cloths on workers. they had ESD straps. and that was good. ESD floor was also good. but they should have also ESD cloths as well. i don't think they had that.
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From professional point of view. All looks good. What surprised my was that really really dirty soldering Owen. Place where melted solder was doing soldering of HMT components. That Owen needs cleaning for sure. and what was that cartoon board doing there(it was probably some metal sheet). rust all over the place. come on. I know it is about 20 years old but still it should not be so rusted. where was the maintenance done on it. That should change. :) Also another remark. even it was final inspection and maybe it wasn't necessary to have so high protection. i was missing ESD cloths on workers. they had ESD straps. and that was good. ESD floor was also good. but they should have also ESD cloths as well. i don't think they had that.
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2randomcrap3
It won't be very long until manufacturing is 100% automated for all volumes and levels, from design to shipping. Soon, computer software will be able to take raw specs, design _everything_ in less than a day, configure machines to manufacture a small number of them, test those, refine the design, have a finished product, then configure the rest of the equipment to manufacture the finished product in about a month, with no human intervention at any point, including repair and maintenance of the equipment; robots will take care of that.
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It won't be very long until manufacturing is 100% automated for all volumes and levels, from design to shipping. Soon, computer software will be able to take raw specs, design _everything_ in less than a day, configure machines to manufacture a small number of them, test those, refine the design, have a finished product, then configure the rest of the equipment to manufacture the finished product in about a month, with no human intervention at any point, including repair and maintenance of the equipment; robots will take care of that.
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YoltsBp
Ive personally had 2 corsair psu stop working within a month of purchase and my buddy also had 1 that went not sure how long he had it. I deffinitly dont have a pest issue lmfao after spending the premium on corsair and losing 2 1000w psu i swapped to thermal take and the specific one im talking about replaced those 2 corsairs 8 years ago and is still working amd 100% solved my computer from randomly turning off. Fortunately at the time i had multiple psus to troubleshoot from the get go corsair sucks imo and those were gold rated.
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Ive personally had 2 corsair psu stop working within a month of purchase and my buddy also had 1 that went not sure how long he had it. I deffinitly dont have a pest issue lmfao after spending the premium on corsair and losing 2 1000w psu i swapped to thermal take and the specific one im talking about replaced those 2 corsairs 8 years ago and is still working amd 100% solved my computer from randomly turning off. Fortunately at the time i had multiple psus to troubleshoot from the get go corsair sucks imo and those were gold rated.
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BagsOfFun96
I've had one power supply failure and it was an EVGA 500W that I had built a budget pc with. It only lasted a month. One day I tried turning on the pc and it wouldn't, flashing amber light on the power button. I went through a very lengthy troubleshooting process by replacing the cpu, motherboard, ram, hell I rebuilt the whole damn pc until I got a different power supply and it fired right up. I was so stumped because my mind was saying the whole time it can't be the power supply, it's brand new. How wrong I was.
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I've had one power supply failure and it was an EVGA 500W that I had built a budget pc with. It only lasted a month. One day I tried turning on the pc and it wouldn't, flashing amber light on the power button. I went through a very lengthy troubleshooting process by replacing the cpu, motherboard, ram, hell I rebuilt the whole damn pc until I got a different power supply and it fired right up. I was so stumped because my mind was saying the whole time it can't be the power supply, it's brand new. How wrong I was.
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ArtisChronicles
You're right that there was nothing wrong with my power supply. Turned out the motherboard cable on the power supply side got disconnected. Must not have gotten it in all the way. Went to power on and couldn't figure out why it wasn't turning on at first. I ended up have to remove the power supply cover to reveal the problem, but not before becoming worried that the power supply might've died. I figured it wasn't the motherboard since I did test it outside of the case beforehand.
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You're right that there was nothing wrong with my power supply. Turned out the motherboard cable on the power supply side got disconnected. Must not have gotten it in all the way. Went to power on and couldn't figure out why it wasn't turning on at first. I ended up have to remove the power supply cover to reveal the problem, but not before becoming worried that the power supply might've died. I figured it wasn't the motherboard since I did test it outside of the case beforehand.
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Fadil
I just bought the Reactor 650w gold PSU from Cooler Master, used all ESD precautions, anti-static bracelet, and still ended up with a DOA psu. It won't budge, coil whine is atrocious, it is literally like its killing itself. Cooler Master isn't responding for my request to change the PSU. And i just dont get it that after all that 'testing' and shit, customers at the end end up with a DOA part. And seller seem like they just dont care. Btw its official Cooler Master seller in Germany.
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I just bought the Reactor 650w gold PSU from Cooler Master, used all ESD precautions, anti-static bracelet, and still ended up with a DOA psu. It won't budge, coil whine is atrocious, it is literally like its killing itself. Cooler Master isn't responding for my request to change the PSU. And i just dont get it that after all that 'testing' and shit, customers at the end end up with a DOA part. And seller seem like they just dont care. Btw its official Cooler Master seller in Germany.
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MiGujack3
I had a Corsair VS650 for 5 years. Cheap looking, not even 80 plus, but it worked. The fan definitely got louder over time and I opened it twice for a deep cleaning, that didn't help much lol Surprisingly that thing survived 30+ power outages on a OC system. I'm sure it's still running in the PC I sold. For a trash tier PSU I have to say I got my moneys worth. I would definitely consider garbage PSUs for a second system, just make sure to substract 250w out of the rated wattage.
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I had a Corsair VS650 for 5 years. Cheap looking, not even 80 plus, but it worked. The fan definitely got louder over time and I opened it twice for a deep cleaning, that didn't help much lol Surprisingly that thing survived 30+ power outages on a OC system. I'm sure it's still running in the PC I sold. For a trash tier PSU I have to say I got my moneys worth. I would definitely consider garbage PSUs for a second system, just make sure to substract 250w out of the rated wattage.
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Eric
It's kind of funny. Our facility is also using a version of shop floor and running Win XP. When I was in production I hacked my PC to get online so I could use it on break. Now I have my own cubicle and write the directions in Excel on how to assembly the PCBs. I've been doing this kind of work for 21 years. I was just interested in how the PSUs were made. But now I just feel like I'm watching a video from my actual job with new faces doing the work. lol
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It's kind of funny. Our facility is also using a version of shop floor and running Win XP. When I was in production I hacked my PC to get online so I could use it on break. Now I have my own cubicle and write the directions in Excel on how to assembly the PCBs. I've been doing this kind of work for 21 years. I was just interested in how the PSUs were made. But now I just feel like I'm watching a video from my actual job with new faces doing the work. lol
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