PSU Expert Aris Mpitziopoulos Responds to Gigabyte Statement on GP-P750/850 GM Design Flaws

[Sandbo]

The problem isn't the OPP triggering point , since OPP clearly was never actually triggered .
If the OPP was activated the PSU would had been shut-down and not explode.

So , either this PSU doesn't (have) implement properly its supposed protection features (on the contrary to what Gigabyte say at their statement) , or , just like Aris suspects , the issue could be related with the PSU 's design as a platform...

Right, I was wrong as I thought I finished reading all the conversations.

 

[sith'ari]

Right, I was wrong as I thought I finished reading all the conversations.

no worries , not even Gigabyte hasn't informed us yet where the problem lies.
Although they don't admit that the PSU has a problem , they stated that they decided to lower the OPP only for ... precaution , their statement is so confusing and pointless ....

 

[jonnyGURU]

no worries , not even Gigabyte hasn't informed us yet where the problem lies.
Although they don't admit that the PSU has a problem , they stated that they decided to lower the OPP only for ... precaution , their statement is so confusing and pointless ....

Which is why this video was posted:

 

[EsaT]

Also, no-one seems to learn from mistakes here, since in most companies, the staff turnover is too high, so there's no "collective memory" of what happened more than a year or two ago. In most cases, if you want a promotion, you quit your job and go to a competitor and ask for a higher salary. However, the competitor isn't really interested in the mistakes the other company made and barely interested in what made them successful so...

And those big salary decision makers claiming "responsibility" as justification for their salary hardly ever seem to actually carry any responsibility.
It's really almost like amount of salary is inversely proportional to amount of responsibility/how hard personal consequencies will be from bad decisions.
Ordinary workers sure get easily fast fired etc to maintain bottom line, but those big shots often get "golden handshake".

It's like in old aviation joke about what's the difference when pilot screws up and when ATC screws up:
When pilot makes mistake, pilot dies.
When ATC makes mistake, pilot dies.

Similarly it's ordinary consumers and some Gigabyte's ordinary workers in support etc who'll suffer most from this.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Gigabyte was never on my list of products to consider still isn't.
RMA is not something you play with it's already a stressful issue gigagyte just compounded the issue lol

Stay away from products and companies with bytes and some sort of kry or cry in it's name lol

 

[crmaris]

Linus or Steve would probably love to run with this; They've made good money off content specifically targetting bait-and-switch in the last couple of years. Linus in particular loves to run his mouth on The WAN Show when companies try to muscle out the little guys and has weighed in hard on a few recent ones like the two HWUnboxed issues (Nvidia RTX, LG monitors) as well as the TechteamGB MSI laptop review bribery. The combination of bait-and-switch and tone-deaf blaming of reviewers and users here from Gigabyte ticks all of the boxes for a high-profile Linus rant good for >10M views.

People love outrage, and that generates clicks to pay the bills.


Basically PSU royalty right there...

@crmaris - what does the crm stand for? I hadn't made the association before, but is the c for Cybenetics?

crm 250 was a bike I had back in the day

 

[Chrispy_]

crm 250 was a bike I had back in the day

Nice, I learned to ride on a CRM125.