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The Cooler Master V850 sets some very high standards for itself in its spec and feature sheet alone. The Cooler Master V850 boasts an 840 watt single 12V rail, 80 PLUS Gold certification and all modular cables featuring six 6+2 PCIe connectors right off the bat. To add to this, Cooler Master rates the 12V regulation of the V850 to be within 1% at all loads, and the V850 is 80PLUS Titanium ready. To ensure quiet computing, the V850 has oversized internal heatsinks coupled with a speed controlled 135mm FDB fan
Today we are looking at the new be quiet! PowerZone 650W power supply. These new units are set to target ‘discerning gamers and PC enthusiasts’ and incorporate a fully modular design, low noise fans and 80 Plus Bronze certification. Is the PowerZone 650W worth shortlisting?
Ce jour, Cougar nous revient avec une nouvelle alimentation de 700 watts 80 Plus Bronze, mais qui intègre la gamme Power X et non CMX. Une alimentation qui se veut plus simple dans son aspect, mais surtout un modèle qui se veut plus accessible et qui devrait être proposé dans les 70/80 €.
The Antec HCP-850 High Current Pro Platinum Power Supply is an outstanding product. It's 80 Plus Platinum certified, as well has AMD CrossFire, NVIDIA SLI & ErP Lot 6: 2013 certified, 100% modular, comes with a quiet 135mm fan and carried a 7 year warranty. The feature list and performance makes this PSU a must-have for hardware gamers.
The 550-650W market of power supplies is highly competitive these days with it being the "sweet spot" for gaming systems. These "gaming power supplies" should have enough wattage to comfortably power most single and dual GPU systems with a relatively power hungry overclocked CPU and all the other parts required for a gaming system (multiple storage drives, lots of fans and so on). Antec have a series of power supplies specifically designed for this under their High Current Gamer series. The particular model we have here today is the Antec High Current Gamer 620W power supply.
This power supply from Antec captures the sweet spot of the market perfectly with a decent 620 watts of power over a single 12 volt rail, a rugged gamer-looking design, all the industrial-grade protections to keep your gaming PC safe as well as 80 Plus Bronze efficiency and 135mm cooling fan. Additionally it comes with a semi-modular design to allow you to keep cable management under control and only use the cables that you need to use. As it is being thrown into a highly competitive marketplace it has competitive pricing to match. As with most Antec power supplies, the higher end ones at least, this power supply is OEM produced by Seasonic. Let's proceed with this review and find out how the Antec High Current Gamer 620W power supply performs.
Today we take a look at the Cougar PowerX 550W power supply. Never heard of Cougar? well they are a retail subset of parent company HEC. The PowerX 550W is a 80 Plus Bronze certified, compact, non modular design built into a brightly coloured chassis. We last looked at their CS 800W unit in January this year and while it didn’t earn a really high award from us, it was a capable all round unit.
After having reviewed XFX’s Pro 750W Black Edition power supply I have high expectations of this next power supply from XFX. The XFX Pro 650W Core Edition power supply that we have here today is XFX’s attempt at a well priced power supply powerful enough for most high end single and dual GPU gaming systems. The raw design, like with all XFX power supplies is based on a Seasonic OEM design. This particular unit boasts 650W over a single 12 volt rail and is cooled by a 135mm fan.
The XFX Pro 650W Core Edition power supply features 80 Plus Bronze Certification and a non modular cable design. Like with all gaming products XFX have gone for a rugged looking black design. XFX state that this power supply is certified for SLI and CrossFire. Additionally XFX say that this product uses Japanese Capacitors and you need not worry yourself about its quality because XFX are backing it with a huge 5 year warranty.
While Enermax are more associated with their ultra high performance enthusiast-class power supplies, like the Platimax 850W we reviewed recently, they do have a more budget range of power supplies – notably the Triathlor series. Today we have with us the Triathlor 450W power supply from Enermax. This is a budget orientated non-modular 80 Plus Bronze power supply designed for moderate systems with a single graphics card or two low power graphics cards that only use a single 6 pin PCIe connector. It is actually quite a compact unit thanks to its lower wattage and this allows it to be ideal for micro-ATX and mini ITX systems with constrained spaces for the power supply.
In terms of specifications this unit distributes its power over two 12 volt rails allowing the motherboard and CPU to have their own 12 volt rail separate from the graphics cards and molex/sata devices which are on the second 12 volt rail. The unit boasts a rather advanced Enermax Twister Bearing “Silence” 120mm fan compared to the normal cheap and cheerful ADDA fans we tend to find on the vast majority of power supplies, especially the budget ones. Without any further ado let’s take a look at Enermax’s Triathor 450W and see how well this budget offering stands up in our testing.
Corsair’s CX Series of power supplies have become increasingly popular in the DIY PC market. They offer strong value for money, good build quality, Corsair’s trademark warranty service and offer up 80 Plus Bronze certification at a reasonable price point. Today we are looking at the CX500M power supply which is a modular 80 Plus Bronze 500W power supply from Corsair.
Corsair’s CX500M power supply isn’t as extravagant as some of the power supplies we’ve looked at in the past but that is fine as this power supply is really only aimed at the single GPU gamer with a relatively mid-range system and on a restricted budget. If consumers want something more “high-end” they can obviously opt for Corsair’s more premium HX and AX series of power supplies.
If you’ve been following the pre-built system market you may see that Corsair’s CX500M has gained significant traction in that market inside pre-built systems from vendors like PC Specialist, Overclockers UK, Scan 3XS and so on. That said the CX500M has never been more popular and without any further ado let’s dive in and take a look at this budget offering from Corsair.
Antec have been a veteran of the power supply game for quite some time and today we are taking a look at their High Current Gamer 850W (Semi-)Modular power supply. Antec’s High Current Gamer series was designed with a few key principles in mind. First they’ve opted to minimise the number of rails and maximise current going through each of these rails so most of their High Current Gamer series uses a single or two 12 volt rails. Secondly these power supplies are designed ruggedly with a gamer in mind which means the design isn’t subtle or even that quiet but is more “bells and whistles” with an LED fan and red-accents.
It is pretty simple then to see what the Antec 850W HCG-M power supply is offering. In terms of the rest of its specifications we can see it isn’t that advanced as it only has 80 Plus Bronze Certification. A lower certification level generally means more wastage as “heat” and thus a higher fan speed is needed and so this probably isn’t going to be the quietest unit on the market either. Already we can see that the Antec HCG 850W power supply is going to have to excel in voltage regulation and value for money to be a truly worth power supply – so let’s see how it performs.
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