Thermaltake GF1 850W OEM bait and switch

[Nonebit]

I kept an eye on this PSU until recently found out that there are 2 different batches, one from Vietnam and one from China. The Vietnamese one is apparently the low quality one. Now the question is, does the TT bait and switch only apply to the 850W model or does it also apply to the cheaper 750W model? The store page for the 750W model on amazon does not say the country of origin.

[_I_]

Publicado originalmente por Guydodge:

make sure its got the Japanese capacitors rated to 105°C,be quiet uses them it there
PSUs a top brand in my book.

if it had the bad taiwanese caps, they would have already gone bad
its just not due to temp, also age and use that kills the cap fluids

[smokerob79]

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Publicado originalmente por Rumpelcrutchskin:

If you want something reliable I would check out Corsair or EVGA instead.
Cheaper Thermaltake PSU models are generally rubbish.

Publicado originalmente por _I_:

just avoid thermaltake, and go with corsair, evga, seasonic, bequiet

EVGA A-Tier models are either never in stock or overpriced to hell. Still thinking about Corsair though, the RM750x does look promising. Not so sure about Seasonic and Bequiet in general.

corsair is GARBAGE.....most of their PSUs are in line with thermalright......seasonic and superflower are the best in the market and have been making PSUs for over 40 years each.....Superflower was the OEM for EVGA for the first 10 years EVGA sold power supplies and EVGA had exclusive rights to superflower in north america for the whole time they sold them.....superflower also started the modular power supply back in the 00's when it released the first one under the ULTRA brand for CompUSA stores.....they were exclusive to compUSA before EVGA

[r.linder]

Publicado originalmente por smokerob79:

Publicado originalmente por Nonebit:

EVGA A-Tier models are either never in stock or overpriced to hell. Still thinking about Corsair though, the RM750x does look promising. Not so sure about Seasonic and Bequiet in general.

corsair is GARBAGE.....most of their PSUs are in line with thermalright......seasonic and superflower are the best in the market and have been making PSUs for over 40 years each.....Superflower was the OEM for EVGA for the first 10 years EVGA sold power supplies and EVGA had exclusive rights to superflower in north america for the whole time they sold them.....superflower also started the modular power supply back in the 00's when it released the first one under the ULTRA brand for CompUSA stores.....they were exclusive to compUSA before EVGA

All brands have poorer quality units in their history, even SeaSonic and Super Flower. Corsair is fine, they've gotten better as they have JonnyGuru in R&D, SeaSonic used to make a lot of units for Corsair and still does in a smaller capacity, and their RMx series is perfectly fine for the price, a far cry from the garbage from Thermaltake (not Thermalright, they only just entered the marketplace).

I've used Corsair units for many years off and on and they've been fine as long as you don't buy complete trash like the VS and CV series. But that's the same for every brand, you never cheap out on a PSU, period. Friends of mine with older machines have Corsair units (ones produced by SeaSonic) still running after a decade.

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corsair v lineup is garbage, just make sure to get a80+ gold or better psu

[mtono]

Publicado originalmente por _I_:

corsair v lineup is garbage, just make sure to get a80+ gold or better psu

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[r.linder]

Publicado originalmente por mtono:

Publicado originalmente por _I_:

corsair v lineup is garbage, just make sure to get a80+ gold or better psu

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VS and CV series are the lowest quality, the CX/CX-M series isn't much better but if you're on a really tight budget and have a lower end system then CX is fine