Testing

Now what would be a good stress test for a power supply? how about putting it in a top of the range overclocked system, with watercooling, an XP 3200+ (kindly supplied by AMD) and a Radeon 9700pro. Then perhaps taking it to i17 for 4 days of virtually non stop fragging in a room that got as hot as the mid 30s? Yes, I think that's about as stressed as a power supply can get.

It passed with flying colours. My machine only crashed once in the 4 days, and that was due to a stray wire in the GPU fan. The air coming out of the back of the power supply got rather warm, but it was still rock solid stable. The only component that suffered from the heat was my rather elderly hard drive.

So what does it look like inside? As you can see here, all the heatsinks are arranged to take best advantage of the airflow from the 120mm fan. The internal layout isn't too cluttered, and the board is the standard size. You can see the gap where an 80mm fan would have gone on a conventional design.

Conclusion and Summary

This is the absolute Rolls Royce of power supplies. It is very well built, powerful, but quiet at the same time, a combination you don't often see. Aesthetically, this is the best looking power supply I have ever seen, and would be my first choice if I had an acrylic case. The only nit I can find to pick is the miserable 4 Molex connectors. I wont count the documentation on the minus side, a good laugh every now and then is good for you. The cheapest price we found was £51.40 from Special Tech. We think that is a reasonable price to pay for such a high quality PSU.

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