low tier PSUs always “mark-up” is output power. it may be 2x or even 3x to actual power that it can supply.

Well you were right, I ran FurMark and it blew up the PSU. Bolts of electricity shooting out the back, and blue smoke. I opened it up, it kind of looks okay, but no way I’m trusting it again. As soon as the GPU got into the 80c range, I was expecting throttling, not explosions.

I’d bought some ANTEC PSU’s after you’d mentioned this, so yeah, out the GTR’s go. Such a shame, they seemed at a good price point, but obviously they cannot handle any real draw.

The biggest problem with Taobao is once they see a Hong Kong address, either they won’t ship, or they play games. My storage is in Duanguan for CNY as they thought that was close enough.

I swear it can be so annoying

new capital plaza are the place mainly selling 2nd hand/refurbished computer/network parts in a somewhat higher than taobao prices. and the chassis may come from a shop which is 2 floors above the ground in new capital plaza, mainly selling computer box fans and heatsinks as I remember the text shop owner writes.

My expectations are pretty low. I’m more surprised that it worked.

I got this stuff in the new capital Plaza, it’s one block away from the golden centre. I find that although there is a lot of stores they all seem to have the same things, and I end up going to comdex too often..

I just landed in Tokyo (the plane is still taxiing), I’m planning on hunting down more GTX 980s. I always wanted a monster SLI system. Oh and new capital Plaza has a bunch of 1200 (or were they 1500?) watt mining PSUs. They can’t be that old, and at $200 HKD it’s pretty cheap!