Guru3D Winter 2019 PC Buyer Guide
Corsair QL120 and QL140 RGB fan review
Promo: Windows 10 Pro for $13 With Office 2016 For $33
Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless Headset review
Team Group PD400 Portable SSD review
AMD Athlon 3000G review
Team Group T-Force Delta Max 1 TB SSD review
Guru3D Rig of the Month - November 2019
ASUS ROG Rampage VI Extreme Encore review
Toshiba RC500 500GB NVMe M.2 SSD review
PSU - Power Supply Units 
Enermax Revolution 85+ 850W review
Posted by: on: 11/01/2009 02:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
It certainly has been a while since we reviewed Enermax products, if memory serves me right the last Enermax PSU that we had in queue was the Galaxy Kilowatt DXX power supply. At the time (and still) considered a top notch product. We where exhilarated by it and I know for sure that our review cascaded an effect -- as a lot of our forum visitors actually purchased that Galaxy series of power supplies, which they still use and are happy with. Times change and there is always room for improvement, Enermax started rolling our the Revolution series of power supplies. A highly stylish, highly efficient and modular power supply that is quiet as well.
Read articleGigabyte Odin PLUS 700W PSU review
Posted by: on: 10/06/2009 01:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
We'll have a look at Gigabyte's Odin series of power supplies. An updated version, the new PLUS model. Being Guru3D we did opt the higher wattage model. It's called the Odin Plus 700 Watt power supply. A fairly standard power supply, yet with some extra horsepower, should you need it. Advertised as a SLI ready and certified product that comes with a 80+ Bronze certification for it's efficiency. What's special is that Gigabyte designed their own board layout, four 12 volts rails, uses solid capacitors to market it in their ultra durable product segment and as such hope to bring you a nice and long lasting product.
Read article
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 910 PSU review
Posted by: on: 05/19/2009 01:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
Here we test the Silencer 910. PC Power and cooling creates the best of the best among power supplies, they however keep their design simple. No multiple 12 Volts rails, no Sir, it all comes from one single rail, apparently more robust and efficient. Cable management ? Ehm, no Sir, all cables are connected as modability would have an effect on overall efficiency here as well. A near kilowatt power supply with an efficiency that is bloody fantastic at roughly 88%
Read article
In Win Commander 750W PSU review | test
Posted by: on: 05/10/2009 01:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
We will be reviewing the In Win Commander series power supply. Commander, as in military. And that shows, army camouflage packaging, and an army green PSU. Quite funny to observe really. Marketing sure, but somehow .. this concept works out really well. A fairly high-end power supply. But is it any good ? Let's fire off some rounds and ground the PSU with some serious ammo.
Read article
BFG EX 1200 Power Supply review | test
Posted by: on: 03/22/2009 02:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
A test on the BFG EX-1200. Last week BFG dropped a mail if we wanted to test their all new BFG 1200 Watt EX power supply. A power supply that is silent, efficient, has long cabling, is pure quality, has an ATX size chassis, is completely themed dark and perhaps after all these years might be able to replace my kilowatt PSUs. As what BFG is bringing to the table is comforting. This 1200 Watt piece of machinery is fairly close to what I consider perfection in terms of design and requirements .. and with a price just under 250 USD BFG might have something really special on their hands. And that my friends makes it very interesting.
Read article
OCZ ModXtream PRO 600 Watt power supply review
Posted by: on: 12/04/2008 02:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
A test on the OCZ ModXtream PRO 600 Watt power supply. A very energy efficient power supply that not only looks good, is modular .. and pretty much inaudible to the ears. It's called the ModXtream Pro, is SLI certified, comes in a nice black modular design and we'll take a look at the 600 Watt version of it.
Read article
BFG ES 800 Watt PSU review
Posted by: on: 05/26/2008 01:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
The all new BFG ES series of power supplies. Probably this is one of the best power supplies we ever tested here at Guru3D.com, be sure to check out the review.
Read article
Tagged as:
review
Hiper Type R Mk-II 680W power supply
Posted by: on: 05/01/2008 01:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
A new review at Guru3D. One PSU that certainly will catch your attention is the one we'll be testing for Hiper (High Performance group) today. it's their 680Watt Type RII 680 Watt PSU. A product that costs roughly 120-130 bucks. This PSU immediately will catch your attention die to it's original packaging, the extremely 'out there' paint job and then .. when you look at the front side of the PSU, you'll spot 8 USB connectors. And all that is it next to being an actual PSU.
Read article
Tuniq Miniplant 950 Watt Power Supply review
Posted by: on: 03/19/2008 02:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
Recently Tuniq (part of Sunbeamtech) released a trio of power supplies. The Ensemble comes in 1200 and 1000 Watt versions, and their lower specced Miniplant is only a 950 Watt animal. Despite the fact that the PSU can suck up 950 Watts, this actually is an energy friendly product .. it has everything to do with it's high efficiency topping out at 80%+, no worries though, we'll explain and demonstrate that over the next view pages.
Read article
BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 650W First Class review
Posted by: on: 02/05/2008 02:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
So a couple of weeks ago I had a call from Miss D. at Listan, their rock solid BeQuiet series is to be updated to a new revision. And at that very moment I was like ..hmm what on earth could they improve ? Well, before we get into that .. let me just say .. they did. On the next pages we'll show you a full-fetched review on their all new BeQuiet Dark Power Pro "First Class" edition of power supplies. A PSU series that is quite efficient, stable and so darn quiet .. that I measured over and over again.
Read article
Tuniq Ensemble 1200 Watt Power Supply review
Posted by: on: 01/10/2008 02:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
In their power supply line Tuniq recently released their Ensemble power supply in 1000 and 1200 watt offerings, we'll review the latter one. That's right .. a 1200 Watt PSU for gamers. Now believe it or not, but this 1200 Watt PSU is actually an energy friendly product .. it has everything to do with it's high efficiency topping out at 87%, no worries though, we'll explain and demonstrate that over the next view pages.
Read article
Sirtec High Power 1200W PSU review
Posted by: on: 11/19/2007 02:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
We'll have a peek at a 1.2 Kilowatt PSU, this time from the folks at Sirtec. Oh did I already mention that the unit is only 245 EUR ? That flips things around doesn't it ?
Read article
Everest 1010 Power Supply unit review
Posted by: on: 11/02/2007 02:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
FSP recently released a 800 and 1010 Watt high-end power supply in e(re)tial. The PSU's have a good feature set with active PFC, short-protection (OCP/SCP) and enough connectivity for the latest high-end components in your system, including PCI-Express 2.0 8 pin 12 volt rails (4 of them with 20 AMPs each meaning that this PSU is SLI, three-way SLI or CrossFireX ready.
Read article
OCZ Silencer 750 Quad Crossfire edition review
Posted by: on: 10/09/2007 01:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
OCZ bought PC Power & Cooling, for the time being OCZ will sell the PC Power & Cooling as is. It's now their high-end segment of power supplies which is interesting as I always figured their now mid-range line to be pretty snazzy as well.
With this small introduction on OCZ's, PC Power & Cooling product line we land at the Silencer PSU rated 750 Watts. The product as shown today is available in two SKU versions, one SLI and one Crossfire. The SLI version is colored dark black, the Crossfire version in demonic red. The difference between the two ? .. none except the color.
Read article
SolyTech SL-8600EPS 600 Watt PSU review
Posted by: on: 10/03/2007 01:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
We land at the premises of SolyTech, a relative unknown manufacturer. They recently launched a SLI compatible 600 Watt PSU. It does not have quadzilla distribution rails, it doesn't even have four PCI-Express connectors. Yet I figured can this 70 EUR / 80 USD PSU deal with our new quad-core CPU overclocked, 680i SLI, 2x 8800 GTS overclocked, 2 GB Vista bitching system ? Would it be possible for a much cheaper PSU to keep if with that Q6600 2.4 GHz quad-core processor ran at 3 GHz ?
Read article
Gigabyte Odin GT 800 Watt PSU review
Posted by: on: 09/17/2007 01:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
Meet the Gigabyte Odin GT, a 800 Watt power supply with advanced cable management, nice (efficient) design, LEDs, temperature sensors, fan control and the best thing since melted cheese .. advanced software that will allow you to monitor internal behavior of the PSU related to heat, Fan RPM and get this .. it monitors internal power consumption.
Read article
Dark Power Pro 1000 Watt PSU review
Posted by: on: 07/31/2007 01:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
The Dark Power Pro is an 1000 Watt PSU which places it in the high-end segment. A PSU which (although not certified) is 100% ready for SLI ready and Crossfire certified even Quad; as it has four dedicated 12 volts PCI-Express connectors which combined can carry a total of 75 AMPs, and according to the box, the PSU 12 volts rails may peak to 20 AMPs per 12V rail.
Read article
Tagged as:
review
Enermax Infiniti 650W PSU review
Posted by: on: 07/20/2007 01:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
We here at Guru3D.com we believe these little masters of distribution are a key element in your PC. Ask yourself, what do you need if you build a high-end PC with for example demanding graphics cards? What do you do when a system is getting unstable? What is very important if you overclock a PC? I could go on for a while easily, but the generic answer always is the PSU. One of the most underestimated peripherals in the PC.
Today we'll gawp (for a change) not at a KiloWatt PSU, yet we can lower the price a little. Granted, it's still a high-end PSU that will still cost a good amount of money. It's the all new Enermax Infinity 650 Watt. And Kilowatt or not, we'll still throw everything at the PC that we can humanly, possibly do to get it unstable with a high wattage load to see if we can break it. I hope one day we'll succeed. :)
Read article
Enermax Galaxy 1000 Watt DXX PSU
Posted by: on: 05/05/2007 01:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
This year you'll start seeing something new on PCs .. an 8-pin power connector. Crazy you say ? Well what if I told you that an unnamed graphics card has both a 6-pin and 8-pin (convertible 6+2p (6/8p)) power connector. See the PCI-Express bus can deliver 75 Watts. A 6-pin power connector .. again 75 Watts. The new 8-pin connector ... 150 Watts. Do the math ... 300 Watts per graphics card is slowly becoming accepted in the market. And we haven't even mentioned Crossfire or SLI here.
Crazy ? Yes .. but it's the reality and luckily for the high-end freaks there are power supplies that can manage that power-draw extremely well. The Enermax Galaxy 1000 Watt PSU is such a device, and now is updated towards version DXX (EGX1000EWL).
Read article
BFG 1000 Watt Power Supply review
Posted by: on: 02/26/2007 02:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
The PSU we'll put to the test today has power written all over it, literally and figuratively speaking; obviously. This BFG BFGR1000WPSU model comes with a fantastic 1000 Watts capacity.
Read article
BeQuiet Dark Power PRO 850 Watt PSU review
Posted by: on: 01/30/2007 02:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
The last time I received a power supply from them I received an email back from a friend working in the graphics card industry. He said "Hilbert, I just bought one of these and you were 100% right. I'm really glad I bought one." So for Listan it's difficult to improve an already great product I figured. Hmm, nope! In the ever-growing demand of power consumption they have yet again released an affordable power supply, this time with a 850 Watt rating yet for a price that's stunning. Next to that it's modular, has high energy efficiency, is quite silent and will fit in any case due to it's small size opposed to the Kilowatt PSU's we recently have seen.
Read article
Tagan 1100 Watt Power Supply review
Posted by: on: 01/09/2007 02:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
Our second 1000+ Watt power supply review is being published today, and we test a lot of PSU's these days .. just to make sure that you guys buy the right stuff. Never underestimate the importance of the PSU. Today's flavor .. 1100 Watts.
Read article
Zippy/Emacs 500w & 720w PSUs
Posted by: on: 10/10/2006 01:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
Zippy have given their PSUs a face lift, if you like. They have been updated to move with the times. Zippy have introduced a range of PSUs with the title of "Gaming Power," they have been given a chic black finish and the cables have been sleeved. Inside, however, are still the same core components that have earned Zippy their excellent reputation in the server market.
Read article
Tagged as:
Zippy/Emacs
BeQuiet! Dark Power Pro 600 Watt PSU
Posted by: on: 08/18/2006 06:00 AM [
0 comment(s) ]
Sound levels coming from your PSU. The high rated PSU's typically have two fans and a lot of manufacturers did not pay attention to all the noise a PC makes these days. So the third factor was utilizing silent high-performance fans preferably with smart-fan technology (variably fan speeds based on heat).
And with these factors in mind we land at a product line called BeQuiet! As the name suggests we do not expect this product to make heaps of sound. The product is named mysteriously the "Dark power Pro". We'll be testing the 600 Watt model to see if it can manage a high-end system with NVIDIA SLI technology.
Read article
Tagged as:
BeQuiet!
BeQuiet! StraightPower 700w PSU
Posted by: on: 08/13/2006 01:00 PM [
0 comment(s) ]
We recently reviewed BeQuiet's Dark Power Pro 600 Watt PSU and were very impressed with it. When the company contacted us and asked us if we wanted to review their new line of power supplies, we just couldn't say no.
Read article
Tagged as:
BeQuiet!,
StraightPower