Tom's Hardware Compares Power Supplies 317
Some guy wrote in to say "Tom's Hardware Guide takes a hard look at power supplies to find out if we are getting what we paid for. The results of the testing were very surprising." Very useful to anyone who has built their own machine from scratch or burned out a cheap power supply.
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dead toms. (Score:5, Funny)
Marketing lessons from audio amps? (Score:5, Funny)
My favorite was a $25 amp car audio amp I bought about 10 years ago. I kid you not, this thing is about 2x the size of a deck of cards, and is rated at 500W per channel. Ha ha ha ha! No, I didn't buy it for it's amazing power, I bought it because it was $25 and I needed a cheap amp for some tinkering!
Re:sparkle power supplies (Score:0, Funny)
Power error? (Score:5, Funny)
Comparison of 21 Power Supplies
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Full Load and Overload - Power Supply Units Pushed to the Limits
Hehe...
Re:Fireworks (Score:5, Funny)
I know you're thinking novice... But he's a software engineer
You learned the wrong lesson.
Lesson to be learned:
Never, Never, Never let a software engineer touch the hardware.
Re:sparkle power supplies (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Tom's Recommended/NOT-Recommended Power Supplie (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Fireworks (Score:5, Funny)
Moral of the story is unplug the power cable (we all do that don't we). Nothing gets your heart going like electricity! Like the time I was putting in a gable fan in my attic and cut a live wire with my T-Cutter's. THAT was a bigger spark, and burnt a nice big hole in the cutters. At least I got to exchange them at Home Depot
ngoy
(I'm still alive! Darwin ain't got nothin' on me!)
I think.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Fireworks (Score:3, Funny)
The software guys at NTG -- myself included -- had this habit of wandering into the hardware lab and taking up space just to kill time and/or clear their thoughts, sometimes idly frobbing tools. Drove the HW guys mad.
Actual overheard statement, delivered to wandering SW guy from head HW lab tech in police officer-voice: "DROP THE SCREWDRIVER! PUT DOWN THE SCREWDRIVER AND WALK AWAY!"
Schwab
Re:Tom's Recommended/NOT-Recommended Power Supplie (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Fireworks (Score:2, Funny)
Well, that explains it. Some of the dust bunnies must've been shaken loose from his pullover.
And I bet you forgot to warn him that these days you're not supposed to pre-warm the vacuum tubes with a cigarette lighter, before cranking the big power lever.
Re:ATX + AT power supply (Score:2, Funny)
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Re: Sparkle Power Supplies (Score:4, Funny)
- Flame
- Smoke
- Sparkle
earthing cables get you women (Score:2, Funny)
live and neutral are of course plastic, but the earth is a regular pin
That sinlge earthing cable landed me my wife, since she thought I was such a crazy ass to wire myself to the electrics to fix her computer.
Lesson be learned - save hardware, get a woman.