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Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 March 2008, maxim wexler wrote:
>
>> Hi group,
>>
>> I bought a Coolmax PS which was touted as the latest
>> and greatest and then it died. When I opened it up I
>> found the output crowded with puffy, oozing
>> electrolytic caps, most made by Fuhjyyu. A search for
>> Fuhjyyu on Google revealed that I'm not alone.
>>
>> Can somebody recommend a *reliable*, up-to-date PS,
>>
>>
>>> =400W with a 120mm fan?
>>>
>> Maxim
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've used several LC6550 "Super Silent" PS without any problem (with AMD
> Athlon 64 and AMD Athlon 64 X2 processors). 550W and 120mm fan.
>
> Thierry
>
>

I just had a Coolmax CP-500T to burn out. I blew the dust out and some
knot head left a rubber band in it and it got caught up in my fan. We
all know what happened about 10 minutes later. Thing did run a while
with 0 cooling tho. I run folding with three hard drives spinning so it
had a good load on it.

I did like the power supply tho. It had a 120mm fan and was real
quiet. I couldn't hear it over the other noise in the case. I do have
several other fans running tho, including the CPU which runs pretty good
too.

This may help some. Lots of links too.
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=458204

We feel your pain. :-(

Dale

:-) :-)

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