Anyone Familiar with Raidmax Power Supplies?

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 3:53 pm

Anyone ever use or have any experience with Raidmax Power supplies? I just was given a 420 watt one with dual fans. I am currently using an Aopen 400 watt supply that only has one fan. Is it worth the time to trade them out? The Aopen is keeping voltages stable and I dont want to do it if the Raidmax wont keep stable voltages but would kind of like to have the dual fans of the Raidmax. So what do you guys think?

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 4:07 pm

i use one in my system. I havent experienced any probs. but I dont really watch the voltages as long as the system is stable and it has ben.

Greg

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 4:48 pm

I'd do a Google search for reviews on that PSU. Also check Google newsgroups for problems with it.

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:02 pm

i have used them for years only had one go bad -and they exchanged it for a upgrade from a 400 watt to a 500 watt ! they do charge a shipping charge on RMA of like $10 this was like 2 years ago but nice people to deal with !

Viperoni · Post by **Viperoni** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:27 am

I wouldn't trust a Raidmax PS.

If yours is an older AOpen, it could be one of the Fortron/Sparkle rebadged ones, in which case, keep it!

The_Frapster · Post by **The_Frapster** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:48 am

No idea, if you have an AMD chip in your system, it should help with temps a little, unless you have a ton of fans in there already.

Side note, I thought Sparkle PSU were crap? Just remember hearing that somewhere, if it's not true, cool, just wanted to find out.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 10:12 am

Sparkle ones were amazing a few years ago. havent heard much abolut them lately. Probably because they dont make any sleved ones or anything like that.

Greg

Viperoni · Post by **Viperoni** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:49 pm

Sparkle's still excellent as always. Zalman, and a couple other companies rebadge them. My 400w with Active PFC is solid. Overkill for my system, but I could only find them in a 300w and 400w model... and the 300w wouldn't quite be enough.

In fact I worked on a system today with a 250w Sparkle pushing a PC Chips p4 MB with a 2.4, 256mb DDR, Seagate 7200.7 and an LG 8x dvd burner, ran fine, and it looked to be a year or so old.

They also tend to have pretty large HS's internally, large than most, and simply eclipsing ones you'd see inside of a typical dual fan PS.

Even the Sparkle/Fortron PS with 120mm fan is a pretty good unit, and it sure helps case airflow!