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Is Seagate a godawful company?

I like how you assume the worst about me just because I didn't realize I was buying from a bad seller. I saw a page, it said the drive was by Seagate, I bought it mistakenly thinking Seagate was still a reputable seller. Apparently, I did not realize there was a scummy third party seller...
- DKlein
- Post #32
- Feb 1, 2017
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Is Seagate a godawful company?

Went through Amazon, and yes apparently it was a 3rd party ("Finity India" or some such). Regardless, the drive died in 6 months, Seagate's website is miserable to navigate to actually talk to someone (I eventually did and they confirmed it's OEM AKA FU), and they pulled a blatant warranty bait...
- DKlein
- Post #14
- Jan 28, 2017
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Is Seagate a godawful company?

It seems so to me, but maybe I'm just having a bad experience. I bought a 2TB HDD off of them 6 months ago on Amazon. They clearly advertised it on the webpage as having a 2 year warranty. Well, the drive died on me today. Quite a short life. Not sure if any data will be salvageable. The real...
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- Thread
- Jan 27, 2017
- Replies: 57
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Corsair CX series overheating/crashing - anyone else?

Thanks, I'll look into that diagram tomorrow. Gigabyte's tech support wasn't great the first time (when the PSU died I missed the Power_OK pin so I thought the PSU was good and went to the MB initially as the culprit, and started an RMA about the original no-POST issue). We'll see how it goes...
- DKlein
- Post #22
- Apr 7, 2015
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Corsair CX series overheating/crashing - anyone else?

Hmmm... I took out the CPU to clean up around and look more closely at the VRM and reapply thermal paste. Turns out a few pins were bent. Might've happened during the initial PSU component testing - I had to swap out CPUs a few times to check if that was the issue. This might be the culprit...
- DKlein
- Post #20
- Apr 6, 2015
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Corsair CX series overheating/crashing - anyone else?

I did 25min of testing with the case open. Well, that's about 15-17 minutes longer than I managed before, so progress? Temps were basically the same for everything (kudos to me for designing an air cooling system that works as well with the case open as closed). All I noticed was that the PSU...
- DKlein
- Post #19
- Apr 6, 2015
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Corsair CX series overheating/crashing - anyone else?

Thanks. I can't tell the heat directly with the IR probe because the motherboard VRMs are all covered by the CPU heatsink clips (it's a large SilverStone setup). I can't really check VRM temps with the heatsink off without fusing the CPU to the MB, so ??? All I can say is that the motherboard...
- DKlein
- Post #17
- Apr 6, 2015
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Corsair CX series overheating/crashing - anyone else?

Thanks for the advice. At this point it's more academic, though, since I've started a return/refund RMA. Like I said, even if the PSU isn't causing the crashes, a 12V rail out of spec on a brand new unit isn't acceptable to me. Do you think a 134W GPU and ~30W CPU system should be too much for...
- DKlein
- Post #15
- Apr 6, 2015
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Corsair CX series overheating/crashing - anyone else?

Nothing in my rig is 4 years old. The old PSU was 5 years old. Everything else ranges from 2 years to 2 months old. I should've replaced it sooner, but I usually aim for 4-5 years of service from a PSU with no other issues (all voltages were still good under load a couple months back when I last...
- DKlein
- Post #14
- Apr 6, 2015
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Corsair CX series overheating/crashing - anyone else?

Swapped vid cards to an older one (150W, so slightly more power hungry), a GTS 250 1GB (DX10.1 I think). OCCT PSU test DX11: 12V rail barely drops past idle (11.78V); everything runs stably for 45min. OCCT PSU test DX9: 12V rail drops past 11.20V; CTRB after 8min, right on cue. So it's not the...
- DKlein
- Post #5
- Apr 5, 2015
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Corsair CX series overheating/crashing - anyone else?

Well, that's a bit what I'm worried about. The RAM seems fine, at least not the cause of these crashes, as does the CPU. I'm going to test out an older video card later today to check if the GPU is causing it, but I'm not sure why that would force a CTRB all the time, rather than just...
- DKlein
- Post #4
- Apr 5, 2015
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Corsair CX series overheating/crashing - anyone else?

Oh, also any recommendations for a 400-450W PSU that's not uber expensive but also doesn't CTRB constantly? I'm not sure if the RMA will require I get another Corsair, so maybe keep suggestions to that brand, but maybe also Antec/SeaSonic/XFX. 80-Plus/Bronze is fine, I don't need any fancy...
- DKlein
- Post #2
- Apr 5, 2015
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Corsair CX series overheating/crashing - anyone else?

So my old OCZ 500W died on me a couple days ago after 5 good years (just rebooted randomly and upon restart only a black screen, Power_Good was 61mV when jumped on), and I decided to upgrade quality for a supposedly better brand while downgrading quantity a bit and went for a CX430. I suppose I...
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- Thread
- Apr 5, 2015
- Replies: 21
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Intermittent "Won't Boot/Post" Issue Turns Permanent

First, I've tested both sticks of RAM individually. Both seem fine. I took the GPU, CPU, and PSU to a local shop that has AMD products to do a check. Gave the guy the CPU, we fired it up past POST and BIOS screen. Guy had no background knowledge of my issues (language barrier and all), and just...
- DKlein
- Post #5
- Nov 18, 2012
- Forum: Computer Building
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Intermittent "Won't Boot/Post" Issue Turns Permanent

Well, considering I can power the computer on when the 8-pin is disconnected, probably the power button isn't at issue ;) 2 shops: both tell me that, from their experience, it's the mobo and irreparable, though no definitive cause has been given. Physical inspection of the mobo reveals no...
- DKlein
- Post #4
- Nov 17, 2012
- Forum: Computer Building

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