White gooey substance inside new tx650 v2? Help please

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I ordered it from the egg a couple weeks ago..and I finally got a chance to open it up and check it... But to my horror.. I immediately saw these white gum looking things inside covering the capacitors.. Is this normal? I won't be able to test it until tomorrow. Should I just rma it? I still have around 8 or 9 day before it expires the rma date.. Here are some pictures..

Sorry if this post is messed up..I'm posting with my phone. No computer atm.
 
like danny said, its normal. if you go look at the psu reviews [H] has done you will see that stuff on almost every psu.
 
its glue they use to hold the parts in place while it goes thought the solder flow machine. Any and every psu will have some on it somewhere, sometimes they put it directly on the board, around the base of the components, other times they just squirt a glob on the top, both work just fine, and will not harm anything
 
I ordered it from the egg a couple weeks ago..and I finally got a chance to open it up and check it... But to my horror.. I immediately saw these white gum looking things inside covering the capacitors.. Should I just rma it?

Without even trying it? Are you serious? :eek: Like the above posters said, its normal.
 
Opened it up without trying it? huh.. But yeah... That's glue, not gel.. If you had actually "opened it up" you would have been able to tell. It's normal.
 
tonight at 11 man's SHOCKING DISCOVERY inside computer power supply


i would totally watch the local news that night i tell you what.
 
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In his defense, it does look like they squirted that shit on everything very half-assed.
 
this is the funniest thread on this forum i've seen in a while. keep them cumming.
 
My first time building a cumputer since 5 or 6 years, I don't recall mechanical jizz in PSUs back in the day. I was cold turkey for 2 months without a PC, I would start doing PCP if have to wait longer.
anyways, everything is up and working, installing BF3 as we speak.
 
My first time building a cumputer since 5 or 6 years, I don't recall mechanical jizz in PSUs back in the day. I was cold turkey for 2 months without a PC, I would start doing PCP if have to wait longer.
anyways, everything is up and working, installing BF3 as we speak.


well... back in the day with 80mm fan in the back maybe you just couldn't see the white gunk... actually i don't know..also older psu's would have been simpler designs and sold for probably better profit margins so they maybe used different techniques building them.


soooo also and this is a pure guess on my part but since some corsair psu's have had people bitching about coil whine would the excess glue stuff be a counter measure for that issue?

i.e. if it is glued all to f*** it can't vibrate at a resonate frequency?
 
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well... back in the day with 80mm fan in the back maybe you just couldn't see the white gunk... actually i don't know..also older psu's would have been simpler designs and sold for probably better profit margins so they maybe used different techniques building them.


soooo also and this is a pure guess on my part but since some corsair psu's have had people bitching about coil whine would the excess glue stuff be a counter measure for that issue?

i.e. if it is glued all to f*** it can't vibrate at a resonate frequency?

you would think so, but no... i have had coils that are encased in ceramic that still whine, i suppose if you really globed it on there, it would still whine, but the goop would act as an insulator, how ever, this would apply both sonically as well as thermally, with the latter being not such a good idea in something like a psu.
 
How'd you fuck your PSU? I might try it myself on a lonely Saturday night.
 
I can't imagine the level of horror you must have experienced when you saw that.
 
^seriously I read the first post of the guy saying it was normal and thought no way! Then as it turns out it actually is.
 
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