Antec Earthwatts EA 650W green review @kitguru

[duckula]

This psu surely looks green. OEM is delta.
http://www.kitguru.net/components/power ... reen-2011/[hr]
A 330μF primary capacitor for a 650W power supply? Seems every psu manufacturers skimp on primary cap these days.

[c_hegge]

YAY! Chemi-con caps. Looks like Antec might be starting to learn their lesson about using Taiwanese caps, but yes, 330uF is a bit undersized for a 650W

[duckula]

Yeah. Haven't seen them use Fuhjyyu or CWT for a long time. Though OST and Su'scon caps still can be found in some of their PSUs.

Picture of Antec NeoECO 520W (semi-modular):

[c_hegge]

Antec do still use CWT and bad caps (mucon brand, just as bad as fuhjyyu) for their phantom series (unless they've changed recently).

[shovenose]

phantom series? never heard of that?!

[edit] after some research it looks like the PHANTOM series is FANLESS...which IDIOT uses CRAP CAPS in a FANLESS psu???

[c_hegge]

It's antec. What do you expect?

[shovenose]

given there history, i should get over hoping they figure out that bad caps are not good for business.

but given the price of their products, i expect way more than suscon...

[c_hegge]

True, but for the price of their stupidpowers and fakepowers, I expected better than fuhjyyu

[shovenose]

exactly. that's why it is surprising they use such lousy capacitors. their products are not cheap!

[c_hegge]

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