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Old 02-01-2006, 05:59 PM   #29
Clodfobble
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
 
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Originally Posted by tw
If a power supply does not cost $65 full retail, then it is probably missing essential functions and therefore can contribute to motherboard damage. So let's see. We save $15 on an inferior power supply. Then must buy a $100 UPS to correct the power supply defect? I see this reasoning routinely where people buy on price rather than learn simple technical concepts.
That's nice, but you left out the part where for the second and third computers we bought high-end, non-Asian-market surge protectors, and they also didn't work. Or perhaps you were speaking hypothetically?
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