Quote Originally Posted by Ughmahedhurtz View Post
I've had two coolermasters, two Seasonics, an Antec and an OCZ. Of the bunch, I could tell zero difference in how loud they were at idle or normal playing conditions, with the Antec being the overall loudest as it would tend to ramp up to FULL THROTTLE DUCK THE JET IS COMING FOR US wind-tunnel mode during a virus scan. For reliability, BOTH of the Coolermasters died within a year. The Antec died after 2 years and the Seasonics and OCZ are still going strong. Turns out the Coolermasters both had liquid capacitors that burst or leaked and ended up dead. The Seasonic uses mostly solid-state capacitors, as does the OCZ model I had. A few friends have had similar experiences with coolermaster PSUs. I did some reading of reviews on PSUs a while back and the Seasonics were rated up near the top 10% in both quality AND quiet performance.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/Seasonic_X650

My cooler master has been working fine for over 2 years. You can always get a bad unit of anything though. I had a bad Antec recently and decided not to buy Antec again. Guess it's easy to avoid a specific brand with so many choices.

Anyway, did you happen to have those PSUs during that period serveral years back when there were bad capacitors in all sorts of equipment??? Maybe that's why they died?