haha

it is not a x is coolermaster:) at the end of the replay you can see the box on the ground

Sparklies

It's true that a quality PSU is importatnt, but they can't honestly be comparing what looks like a Deer PSU to their VX450...? Especially when they're drawing a load through what seems the ATX connector only (not that it'd make much difference on these single rail cheapies). Most of these are ATX 2.01 era 250W units relabled >400W. Anyone that actually loads a PSU with >300W would also tend to not use a cheap one.

Good old JonnyGuru...

Did I see that...

Anyone else see the Cooler Master box in the video, or are my eyes deceiving me?

Not very good test method

I think they need to clarify how they were applying a 75% load?

From the video, on the last one all the HD/floppy etc connectors were disconnected, so it looks like they were trying to pull 335w through the motherboard/cpu connector, not really a very realistic test.

Like to see a video up of one of theirs under the same circumstances?

OK, so cheap ain't great...

...but removing the lid so the fan pulls hardly any air over the heatsinks of the transistors isn't exactly cricket, is it?

I can't help wondering why they didn't show one of theirs in the same top-off state...

Little Sissy Boys

Ohhhh... how sissy those corsair boys are, with their little sissy 12vdc power supplies.....That's nothing compared with when a power component fails on a 480VAC circuit, or how about when a 13.8kVA disconnect shorts on closure. Now thats spectacular.

Best I saw though was watching a high voltage specialist, in head to toe protective gear, open the disconnect on a 115kV feeder from a power plant to the grid. Generator was down, but still there was more than a few amps flowing... Nice, LONG sparks....

This low voltage, low wattage crap is nothing compared to the real thing.

It is not a Cooler Master

The power supply that blew up is a RAIDMAX RX-450K. Sure, nitpick all you want about the testing conditions, but the unit would have failed regardless. The cover was off just for the fireworks show. The Cooler Master box in the background was obviously for a case, not power supply. That it was in the video was purely coincidental, according to the person filming it.

Foresight & Hindsight By The Dumb, The Stupid & The Converted

Hang on a minute. You mean to say that price has no relationship to performance? If it has, why wasn’t over-pricing given an airing? The only “sin” El Cheapos ever committed was to lie about their max rating whereas the truly “sinful” lies of the gougers, screwers and the fashionatas are covet when it need to be and overt when their mission is done. When they’ve cleaned-up their act because their critics have become their stooges.

The biggest lie is to convince people that they need more than their actual requirements. That monopoly is called, “talking-up stupidity”. Like the fantasy/imaginary need to cater for your future CrossfireX dreams or your Sli-Octos. Dumb & dumber is not the word. Bleeting happily like sheep to their slaughter might get close. Tarting-up the paint-job and a little “heart-touching” attention to detail commands more than the lollies, they rationalised. It demands worship & respect. Like a politician not to mention the hallelujah crowd. For those still floating in a daze of righteousness [of all sorts], the same factories produce both ends of the same product spectrum which means? Yes, Joe, talkin’-it-up ‘N down is about generating activity. It seldom has anything to do with Reality or Fantasy and activity means, “The Meaning For Existing”, for the dumb, the stupid and the converted.

Cooler Master box

I work for Corsair and I just wanted to point out that the Cooler Master box is a chassis box, not a PSU box (we use some CM chassis for show PCs and so forth).

It entered shot by accident; we're certainly not suggesting that Brand X is Cooler Master.

BS

Are you listening Corsair?

Unless you publish your full documentation, test methodology, items tested, and the findings of an independent impartial test lab such as UL, you demo is nothing but hype. Simple smoke and mirrors.

This video has one purpose, to convince people to buy your product at all/any cost.

The video shows nothing that any other "research" facility has duplicated. And without that demonstrated validity, your test are bogus.

Corsair, I suggest you go back to third grade science, study The Scientific Method and then act accordingly. Because with video you look no more competent that preteen video makers on YouTube.

ok um guy that works for corsair

mind telling me why brand X's cover is off there by completely destroying the brand X's PSUs air flow? Could we try removing the cover to say a Corsair brand's PSU that is high dollar PSU and see what no air flow does to it?

@ Little Sissy Boys

Oh yeah...

You should see the spark when a 500KV transmission breaker opens and has no air squelch.

Lightening at its very best.

This Corsair bit is the stuff of children.

Coarse Air, can you show side by side X and Corsair?

Please Coarse Air can you show both X and your psu's side by side and connected with power only going through the CPU lead?

Can you also explain why all the power was put through the cpu lead?

What power rating is the cpu lead? Did you go over that rating?

What power cpu would this supply, eg at full load would it power a quad core, dual core etc?

Thanks.

Now I've stopped laughing I can post...

... I once had a Corsair PSU with a cover off (as you do..) . I decided to power it up without the cover on... within 30 seconds it went POP.. before I could get in there with my voltmeter.

(It didn't kill the mobo + parts I'd hooked up though.. although the GFX card never worked right again..)

So yeah... I found the video hilarious, what a set up.

Most psus will barbeque themselves quite fast without their designed airflow...