[OT] Was: totally satisfied :D

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:37:44 +0200, Mehrdad <wfunction at hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 06:11:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 9/18/2012 8:36 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Walter Bright  
>>> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The most common failure I've had are the power supplies, they're  
>>>> still as
>>>> bad today as in the 80's.
>>>
>>> There are good power supplies, they just don't come in pre-built  
>>> computers
>>> because they're expensive.  I think the same could be said of products  
>>> from
>>> any era.
>>>
>>
>> Well, you guys have convinced me. Next time I buy a PS, I'm going to  
>> spend more money on it.
>
>
> What exactly do you guys _do_ with your computer that suddenly breaks  
> the power supplies?! Maybe I'm just too young to know, but I've never  
> seen a power supply break...

Use them every day for a regular computer? While I've had no spectacular
failures (yet), this has been sufficient to break a PSU or two.

Then I decided to spend money getting a quality PSU, and it hasn't had
a single problem in 7 years.

-- 
Simen