Glad you solved your issue! but I bet you ended up spending more money on that new PSU than it would cost online. but in time of need, you gotta do what you gotta do...
I highly recommend to have a spare PSU (even a crappy one like 650W diabloteck for $30) that can be used for a week or two while you RMA the busted one. The better thing to do would be to buy a good PSU when it's on sale online. a bunch come up pretty often and with rebate you can get a good deal...
You have no idea how tempted I am to just bring up another miner using all the spare components I have... but you have to draw the line somewhere.... it's a vicious circle!
I don't mind spending a few extra bucks to buy it locally because I get the item immediately w/o having to wait for UPS/FedEx. Unless there's a REALLY good deal on something online, then yeah I don't mind waiting
In this case, I bought
this PSU and to my surprise it was cheaper locally than it was through NewEgg, though I did end up having to pay tax (but I defer to the first sentence in this paragraph about that). I thought my Thermaltake PSU was nice, but the quality of this Corsair unit is far and away much better at first glance. The packaging is just awesome. It felt like I was opening the Lost Ark and I almost had to turn my head away for fear of my face melting off, similar to the feeling of opening Apple products (I hope that made sense).
I've only been putting together my computer for about 4 months but I'm starting to accumulate a lot of spare parts.. mainly those little black screws that came with my mobo, but I also have an extra HD, a CD-ROM drive, and soon (after I RMA this Thermaltake) an extra PSU. I can only imagine the amount of gear that people who have been doing this for a few years have stockpiled
I was hoping I could short some pins on my PSU and then maybe plug in an optical drive and see if it opens/closes the tray.
