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PSU - Power Supply Units 
OCZ ModXtream PRO 600 Watt power supply review
Posted by: on: 12/04/2008 02:00 PM [
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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.
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BFG ES 800 Watt PSU review
Posted by: on: 05/26/2008 01:00 PM [
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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.
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Hiper Type R Mk-II 680W power supply
Posted by: on: 05/01/2008 01:00 PM [
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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.
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Tuniq Miniplant 950 Watt Power Supply review
Posted by: on: 03/19/2008 02:00 PM [
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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.
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BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 650W First Class review
Posted by: on: 02/05/2008 02:00 PM [
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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.
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Tuniq Ensemble 1200 Watt Power Supply review
Posted by: on: 01/10/2008 02:00 PM [
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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.
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Sirtec High Power 1200W PSU review
Posted by: on: 11/19/2007 02:00 PM [
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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 ?
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Everest 1010 Power Supply unit review
Posted by: on: 11/02/2007 02:00 PM [
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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.
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OCZ Silencer 750 Quad Crossfire edition review
Posted by: on: 10/09/2007 01:00 PM [
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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.
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SolyTech SL-8600EPS 600 Watt PSU review
Posted by: on: 10/03/2007 01:00 PM [
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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 ?
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Gigabyte Odin GT 800 Watt PSU review
Posted by: on: 09/17/2007 01:00 PM [
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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.
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Dark Power Pro 1000 Watt PSU review
Posted by: on: 07/31/2007 01:00 PM [
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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.
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Enermax Infiniti 650W PSU review
Posted by: on: 07/20/2007 01:00 PM [
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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. :)
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Enermax Galaxy 1000 Watt DXX PSU
Posted by: on: 05/05/2007 01:00 PM [
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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).
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BFG 1000 Watt Power Supply review
Posted by: on: 02/26/2007 02:00 PM [
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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.
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BeQuiet Dark Power PRO 850 Watt PSU review
Posted by: on: 01/30/2007 02:00 PM [
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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.
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Tagan 1100 Watt Power Supply review
Posted by: on: 01/09/2007 02:00 PM [
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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.
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Zippy/Emacs 500w & 720w PSUs
Posted by: on: 10/10/2006 01:00 PM [
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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.
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BeQuiet! Dark Power Pro 600 Watt PSU
Posted by: on: 08/18/2006 06:00 AM [
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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.
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BeQuiet! StraightPower 700w PSU
Posted by: on: 08/13/2006 01:00 PM [
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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.
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Enermax Galaxy 1000 Watt PSU
Posted by: on: 08/04/2006 03:35 PM [
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Now quite frankly I don't like where we are heading, power consumption of PC's is really getting out of hand. We need to start thinking about mother nature a little as next to our power bills .. this can't be healthy. Luckily we see a strong movement in the processor industry where we start to see performance to watt ratio's. Power consumption is getting more and more awareness. With that in mind today our first ever 1000 Watt power supply is being published.
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SilverStone 750 Watt ATX Power Supply
Posted by: on: 06/26/2006 06:00 AM [
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Today we will have a look at the Zeus 750 Watt continuous power supply from Silverstone. A really awe-inspiring power supply with four (yes four) +12 Volts rails and which is also an SLI ready power supply. We'll put it to the test buy using our quad SLI setup. The new Zeus is cool, literally, as up to 750W it'll maintain a temperature of 50°C. You get 60 AMPs combined (over 700W) for these four +12V rails alone, making the ST75ZF capable of powering any top of the line system available today and the near future.
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Nextherm PSU460 Power Supply
Posted by: on: 06/12/2006 06:00 AM [
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The power supply unit is the part of the computer that most people buy without thinking or researching about it and by only looking at the wattage number. The Power Supply is actually a crucial part of the whole system as that is responsible for providing with the electronics with a constant, steady and clean current for them to be able to function without any hiccups. Also, the wattage number on a power supply is almost always a misleading number. A buyer must check with the total combined wattage that can be provided and not the peak number. Also, what are most important are the amps the PSU can provide.
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Ultra X-Finity 2nd Gen 500w PSU w/ Active PFC
Posted by: on: 05/05/2006 06:00 AM [
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The unit itself isn't anywhere near as flash as the X-Connect. It has a more mature look to it. There are no windows or UV, not even LEDs, and the finish is simply a matt black. Once again, whether you like this is purely a matter of taste. I personally think this look is a more fitting look for a power supply. I'm not sure why, but Ultra decided to give the APFC model a completely different look to the other X-Finity 2nd gens, which all have highly polished and "bling" style finishes. This unit features an industrial theme.
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