Harry Travis wrote:
 
> Ray Davison wrote:

> Actually there's more. Shop by weight. You need some copper in there
> for it to be good. The light ones are the cheap ones, regardless of
> brand and price, but the low price ones tend to be the lightest ones,
> those most likely to fall short of their advertised specs, or to fail
> prematurely and destroy your motherboard, CPU & RAM in the process. 

> Better engineering can lead to weight reduction. Switching supplies are,
> after all, about size and weight reduction. Money into weight reduction
> means a saving in shipping, maybe several times.
 
Can and do aren't the same thing. I have many puters, and have had and
repaired many more. The heavy power supplies are the ones that last
longer than the rest of the system, and then some. The lightweights are
the ones that when they die, as often they do, kill motherboards, CPUs
and RAM, all of which cost a LOT more than the little bit of money you
"save" buying a $20 lightweight power supply instead of a heavier $40
power supply, not to mention troubleshooting problems caused by the
cheapies' out of tolerance operating characteristics.
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