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| Thread ID: 88567 | 2008-04-01 03:14:00 | Blown Silverstone Zeus 650w | SolMiester (139) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 654871 | 2008-04-01 03:14:00 | Unbelievable, the PSU on the home PC gave up after only 10months. It wasnt even under strand being that i hadn't upgraded the graphic card. The worst bit of all is I'm not covered by warranty as I modified the 24pin mobo plug back to 20pin+4pin. Now I have to secretly say I'm pleased on the other hand that I'm not getting a replacement unit because to be honest, I was sick of cables for Britian!. I have bought the Decathlon Series which is modular....Yay, no more unwanted cables. Took cover off to see how bad it was.....here (i13.photobucket.com) Strange this white stuff going through all the components like it was melted and sucked through!! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 654872 | 2008-04-01 03:17:00 | Uhm, good for you? That's pretty average.com.au that they wouldn't accept it under warranty just cause you split the pins. If the ni**ers designed the PSU properly in the first place, it wouldn't be a problem. I assume their philosophy is the pins may have shorted out? IT would be easy to see if they had...and I assume you took alll the necessary precautions to ensure that didn't happen. I'd talk directly to Silverstone. Modular FTW. Would never buy anything else. :banana |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 654873 | 2008-04-01 03:20:00 | Are you sure a warranty claim will be rejected, worth a crack anyway? IMESHO, the Decathlon is the better unit. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 654874 | 2008-04-01 03:58:00 | Yeah Murray, already had the e-tailer advise me modification void warranty, although interestingly enough, many graphic cards are modified with after market coolers and still get there warranty on failure.... If I get the replacement, the retailer will continue to be my 1st choice for parts and I will find a use for the replacement. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 654875 | 2008-04-01 04:06:00 | I'm sure you could find an Act of Parliament, or some such, that would support your position on the matter. | Murray P (44) | ||
| 654876 | 2008-04-01 04:15:00 | Unbelievable, the PSU on the home PC gave up after only 10months. I Took cover off to see how bad it was.....here (i13.photobucket.com) Strange this white stuff going through all the components like it was melted and sucked through!! I had a Silverstone fail after 2 days, it took the graphics card with it. The white stuff is common. Its insulation/glue placed around the components on the power supply. It's supposed to look like that. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 654877 | 2008-04-01 05:17:00 | They're good, but not perfect.... | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 654878 | 2008-04-01 05:53:00 | I had a Silverstone fail after 2 days, it took the graphics card with it. The white stuff is common. Its insulation/glue placed around the components on the power supply. It's supposed to look like that. 1st time I've opened a PSU, looked a mess, however the wear?, wasnt there but to the right, a small thing on a little board. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 654879 | 2008-04-01 10:14:00 | The white stuff is hot melt glue, melted and squeezed through as an anti-vibration precaution to avoid stressing the leads on heavy components. Sometimes it is a silicon RTV glue, squeezed through cold. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 654880 | 2008-04-01 11:49:00 | the consumers guarantees act should cover you on that anyway, the right to modify something and still be covered by warrenty (providing the modification is minor) its still covered i believe, my warrenty had completely failed and i had modified the cable on my old xbox, but the replaced it anyway via that guarantees act o_O maybe its worth a read up | Codex (3761) | ||
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