gdjacobs wrote on 2020-12-02, 15:43:
Anything beyond the nominal 10 year lifetime, especially if it's hard use, can be unreliable, but no Delta models I'm aware of in the last 25 years suffer any design flaws which make them more problematic than others.
I specifically mentioned refurbished. The PSUs I get have had all capacitors replaced with panasonic caps, regardless of the PSU brand. I checked several FSP, delta and other brand of PSUs, they have all been recapped with low-ESR panasonic caps. That brings reliability up a little bit.
As for Delta PSUs, alltough generally very reliable, have had problematic units specifically in 2005-2008 HP OEM PCs, but also some older 1998-2000 eMachines computers. Most of the failures we saw back in the day regarding these PCs were PSU related, and the PSUs were 250w delta electronics units.
gdjacobs wrote on 2020-12-02, 15:43:
You're also recommending features which are largely contradictory.
How is that? I recommended 80+ certified FSP/Delta electronics units. Perhaps the confusion stems from me mentioning strong 5v rails on select PSUs. That would be of no help to an Athlon 64 system, but greatly benefits Athlon XP socket A builds. Some units, even as new as 2010 have pretty decent 5V output.
English is not my first language, and I do tend to jump from one idea to another, maybe that caused the confusion....