I used to swear by those $8 'refurbished' power supplies off the auction site, then one blew a customer's board

Margaret Rivera · 2026-10-01T08:25:03.779175+00:00

Lost a $200 motherboard and two days of bench time on a Gateway rebuild in my garage last month before I finally admitted cheap PSUs are a scam. What's your go-to test before you trust a no-name unit in someone else's machine?

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