Originally Posted by
Defoler
EVGA PSU are being manufactured by several facilities, two of them are Super Flower (top end) and RSY (OEM/low end).
JonnyGuru got one from EVGA which was manufactured by Super Flower.
Tom's Hardware, TechPowerUp and "shilka" bought theirs off retail, and apparently it was made by RSY.
Three RSY ones failed and caught fire (one from Tom and two from "shilka"). JonnyGuru's did not as well are TechPowerUp's.
They claim on the one hand, that EVGA are cheaping out and make it sound like "omg your PSU is going to get on fire!!" in order to generate clicks and pull for more site views. But they also claim that this could be an isolated event, else EVGA will stop giving them things for free to review in the future, so they clam everyone down as well.
EVGA claim that they hadn't heard of any overall problems and those were only isolated cases.