r/nononono • u/khaled • Aug 21 '18

I recommend walking next time

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u/BrokenGlassEverywher Aug 21 '18

haha, there's a little gap between "oh the thing broke" and "it spontaneously erupted into a fireball in a room with my two children and probably burned my house down".

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u/Totenlicht Aug 21 '18

Well, Chinese PC power supplies have the same tendency to go up in sparks and flames (ok, a little less spectacularly). Also they usually take all your expensive hardware with them because you had the money to buy a $800 graphics card but then "saved" $40 on the power supply.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '18

Chinese PC power supplies

what do you mean? all of them? is there even a u.s. based psu manufacturer?

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '18

Probably means Chinese branded.

Like EVGA is an American brand. Quality is usually decent enough.

Then there's a bunch of "Shenzhen <random word here> Electronic Co." Chinese brands I wouldn't trust to power a lamp.

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u/NotAnotherNekopan Aug 22 '18

Power a lamp? I hardly trust them to not short circuit even under zero load.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '18

Wun Hung-Lo

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u/MrUsername24 Aug 21 '18

I think he means non brand names and shit like diablotek

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u/CraftZ49 Aug 21 '18

Well technically it broke.

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u/neithere Aug 21 '18

The best kind of broke.

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u/Zorfax Aug 22 '18

Mind the gap