Why you should never buy a RAIDMAX PSU.

It's sad b/c this pissed me off a lot more than my bro, but he had a 700W modular PSU. Yes, of course it's more like a generic 500W, but even that old crappy Apevia 500W I used to have could power a pretty hefty rig. He had purchased the same board as I, but he got a PII 710 and 8 gigs of the same RAM. He messaged me about 5 minutes ago saying that the PSU took everything. It took the board, the CPU, his DVD burner, and even his HDD's (he'd just bought an external to have a nice official backup of his files too). The only thing he thinks that didn't go, was the RAM, but there's no way to be sure. I kinda raged at this because I mean...even a PSU rated for 700W should be able to boot his rig. I mean, the CPU and RAM were probably the most energy hogging things. I mean he had an ATI x1600 for Christ's sake. Now my bro wants to buy an iMac. This is why you should never buy RAIDMAX.

Want more results of inefficiency? The same setup under 100% load (which a computer doesn't need 100% load to boot up necessarily) says that a phenom II 920 rig should put out 384W MAX. And they usually overestimate just a little...so a 700W PSU couldn't handle a 710 x3 and a 1600xt...FAIL. Oh, just for some info, he said it posted and turned on for all of about 45 seconds and then he smelled something like a burning smell and then it just gave out.

Here is the one he had: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817152030

This is my warning to you...
Oh, and /endrant.