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Redditor finds heavy block of iron shavings inside cheap PSU, also appears to lack safety protections
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this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2023
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I gave up on Asus after a motherboard went up in (literal) flames when a cap blew a month into owning it. The RMAed it and the new one was DOA. They blamed my power supply and wouldn't do a second return..
I bought an ASRock and it ran flawlessly for 5+ years. Yeah...it was definitely the power supply that was the problem, Asus..
ASRock was an Asus spinoff but was later bought by Pegatron (which is part of the Asus holdings).
Well the spinoff seems to be better
Yeah, it's weird because often enough the spinoffs may even share some infrastructure, but it's the pricing and support that are different.
Another good example is Virgin Mobile, which belongs to Bell, but their pricing and service are generally better.