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Old 04-26-2004, 11:57 PM   #18
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Originally posted by Undertoad
$23 Sparkle 300W from newegg. They have a good reputation if you want to go "cheap".
A terrible reputation because even specs in that URL say so. Two most critical and essential functions in a power supply - even found 30 years ago - overvoltage and overpower protection. They provide almost no numerical specs and still the power supply is obviously crap.

How do you think they sell a power supply for so far less than $60 retail? They simply forget to include essential functions. Goes right back to a previous thread where I discussed the technical ignorance by so many computer people. The Sparkle supply is dumped into N America at higher profits because so many American technical experts don't even look at specs let alone understand them. It says right there -
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Over Voltage Protection: Not specified
Overload Protection: Not specified
They could not have been more blunt. The supply is missing essential functions necesary even to keep power supply from destroying motherboard, disk drive, memory, etc.
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