FS: Others Gigabyte P850GM - PSU - Sealed

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Expected Price (Rs)
8700
Shipping from
Chennai
Item Condition
Unsealed Brand New
Payment Options
  1. Cash
  2. Bank Transfer
Purchase Date
Jun 16, 2021
Shipping Charges
Excluded - at actuals
Have you provided two pics?
  1. Yes
Remaining Warranty Period
4 Years and 8 months
Invoice Available?
Yes
Reason for Sale
Bought alternative PSU
Selling this PSU behalf of my friend. His PSU stopped working last week and received the sealed product today. Since he bought new PSU, selling this. Preferring local buyers as its kinda heavy for shipping. The product can be shipped also with extra packing.
 

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enthusiast29 said:
It's just luck.

Also GBT did release a "statement" from their end which has been documented here by Steve

This should have a series of serial nos. which are affected/unaffected by the high OPP limits. OP can check if this unit is one of those. IDK the timestamp.
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Yeah...I know...but i am quite lazy to check it.
 
Most of these units failed after being pushed to 130-140% loads using testing equipment (not something that can be easily achieved by normal usage inside a PC),
shutting down and within few mins being turned on again. Yes, then, at 60% load, it blew, one can argue that it should not have been abused in such a manner in the first place or not turned on quickly after.

Yes, it also failed after having a real world game benchmark being run, continuously, for days.

Yes, this PSU (old serial numbers) does not have the fail-safe mechanism it should have, but if its SN is outside the impacted range, it should be ok to buy.

PS - I'm not a GB rep or fanboy.
 
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Slayer88 said:
Most of these units failed after being pushed to 130-140% loads using testing equipment (not something that can be easily achieved by normal usage inside a PC),
shutting down and within few mins being turned on again. Yes, then, at 60% load, it blew, one can argue that it should not have been abused in such a manner in the first place or not turned on quickly after.

Yes, it also failed after having a real world game benchmark being run, continuously, for days.

Yes, this PSU (old serial numbers) does not have the fail-safe mechanism it should have, but if its SN is outside the impacted range, it should be ok to buy.

PS - I'm not a GB rep or fanboy.
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Hitting OCP once is not abuse. PSUs are supposed to shut down gracefully once they hit OCP. That is why it is called over current protection. The keyword there is protection. This one blows up after hitting OCP. Absolutely not acceptable behavior. This is a garbage product through and through and deserves all the thrashing it is receiving. Gigabyte could have acted responsibly and recalled all of them. But no - they put petrol in a dumpster fire.
 
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Chaos said:
Hitting OCP once is not abuse. PSUs are supposed to shut down gracefully once they hit OCP. That is why it is called over current protection. The keyword there is protection. This one blows up after hitting OCP. Absolutely not acceptable behavior. This is a garbage product through and through and deserves all the thrashing it is receiving. Gigabyte could have acted responsibly and recalled all of them. But no - they put petrol in a dumpster fire.
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The question is, can that behaviour be achieved without testing equipment? I am not technically qualified to answer that, but I believe it's not something that an average joe can do, if you are an extreme overclocker and and ultra high end user, maybe, but you'd never be buying this product if you fell into those categories.
 
Slayer88 said:
The question is, can that behaviour be achieved without testing equipment? I am not technically qualified to answer that, but I believe it's not something that an average joe can do, if you are an extreme overclocker and and ultra high end user, maybe, but you'd never be buying this product if you fell into those categories.
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It can be achieved, yes. Please do some research or at least watch all 3-4 of his videos before commenting. The newegg/amazon reviews don't lie. GBT clearly doesn't acknowledge the issue and is not doing what it's supposed to do, a global scale recall of this ticking time bomb.

Steve clearly explained that why it's not "abuse" and testing equipment and real PC doesn't have any difference. Power is Power doesn't matter what's drawing it. This is also explained. I think you didn't watch any of the videos or just skipped past the main content.

PS: mods can move this whole discussion to clean up the FS thread: https://techenclave.com/threads/gigabyte-p750gm-750w-psu-blows-up.198844/
 
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Also to add...850 version has lower fail rate than 750w version......i asked this at GB service center and he himself pointed it out that 750w is the most replaced one right now.
 
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Slayer88 said:
The question is, can that behaviour be achieved without testing equipment? I am not technically qualified to answer that, but I believe it's not something that an average joe can do, if you are an extreme overclocker and and ultra high end user, maybe, but you'd never be buying this product if you fell into those categories.
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One RTX 3080 can kill the power supply. It's obvious you haven't checked GN's video.
 
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