A Better Power Supply Tester

In my RL (real life,) I do IT and web work. There isn’t a week that goes by when I have a client that has a PC that will not boot up properly. Usually, this means one of four items could be defective (or a combo of them.) The four are the power supply unit (PSU,) central processing unit (CPU,) motherboard, and/or memory. Usually memory is a piece of cake to rule in our out, but the others aren’t.

There has been many times that my 24-pin PSU tester has given me a green light indicating all was well only to discover after replacing the motherboard and CPU that in fact, it was a bad power supply. What a waste of time and money. So, I’ve been looking for a better PSU tester and through much time and research, I’ve found one that I think is worthy of notice.

A company in Taiwan, CaseBuy Tech Corp, OEM’s an incredible PSU tester that will is worth it’s weight in gold. Every review site I read (near a dozen) gave it a 10 of 10. This thing doesn’t just test the 20 or 24-pin power supply cable, it also tests the P4 cable (of which was my problem in the last dead PC,) PCI-Express power connectors, Xeon power connectors, floppy drive connectors, +3.3V, -12V, PG, +5VSB, +12V, -5V, +5V outputs, as well as SATA power connectors. This thing does it all! It’s just the perfect tester for any PSU.

Now the fun part is finding where you can buy it since it goes under many different brand names. But Google helped me out and I found it at FrozenCPU.com. They’ve got it for $14.99 which is a great deal on such a versatile product. If this saves me one trip for a CPU or motherboard to CompUSA or Fry’s, then it’s well worth the three Venti Caps at Starbucks!

[tags]sata,p4,psu,power supply unit,tester,20 pin,24 pin,molex,floppy drive,pci-express[/tags]