Power Supplies
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2024 Power Supply Buying Guide
As many of you will know, we recently invested in a new power supply load tested. Our old one served us well until it decided it didn’t want to test power supplies anymore, blew up, and started a new career as scrap metal instead. Alas, this was a good thing…
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Thermaltake Toughpower GF A3 1050W Power Supply Review
Thermaltake has one of the broadest ranges of power supplies on the market, with affordable low-wattage models, right up to their flagship 1000W+ Toughpower units for enthusiasts, and plenty more in between. The model I’m looking at today isn’t their most high-end, but it’s certainly up there in terms of…
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XPG Fusion 1600W Titanium Power Supply Review
The word extreme is thrown around in PC gaming hardware quite often, but rarely does it apply as much as it should to the XPG Fusion 1600 Titanium power supply. This is the most powerful and expensive power supply we’ve ever had for review. It’s so powerful, that it would…
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MSI MPG A1000G PCIe5 Power Supply Review
MSI is one of the best in the world for high-end PC hardware, with many award-winning cases, coolers, motherboards, graphics cards, monitors, systems, gaming chairs, and much more! Of course, today, we’ll be finding out if they have an award-winning power supply too. However, looking at the overall features and…
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ASUS ROG LOKI 850W Platinum SFX PSU Review
ASUS is one of the leading names for high-end PC hardware, with many of the most powerful and feature-packed motherboards, graphics cards, coolers, cases and much more beyond that are available today! However, one thing that we don’t get enough of in the eTeknix office has to be their power…
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DeepCool PX1200G ATX 3.0 Gold Power Supply Review
There are a lot of great PSUs hitting the market recently, what with the recent-ish switch up to the latest PCI Gen 5.0 and ATX 3.0 standards, and with newer CPUs and GPUs using a huge amount of power, we’re seeing 1000W+ PSU become the norm again. The latest unit…
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Silverstone DA1000R 1000W Cybernetics Gold ATX 3.0 PCIe 5.0 PSU Review
Silverstone have long been masters of their craft when it comes to power supplies. They’re well known for often having the most powerful PSUs in the smallest form factors, and often at the best efficiencies too. The new Silverstone DA1000R Gold isn’t quite as extreme as that, but it is…
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Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 Snow 1200 Watt ATX 3.0 Power Supply Review
Thermaltake make so many different power supplies, that it’s hard to keep track of what is what. However, when it comes to the Toughpower GF3 Snow 1200 Watt, there’s no getting this one mixed up, as in terms of design and specifications, it really stands out from the crowd. Obviously,…
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Antec NeoECO 750W Modular 80 Plus Gold Power Supply Review
Antec is one of the oldest names in the business, having decades of experience in creating cases, coolers, power supplies and much more. Many of my first PC components were from Antec, and I’ve been using their products ever since, given I’m pushing 40 years old now, it’s fair to…
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XPG CYBERCORE II 1000W Platinum Power Supply Review
XPG make some great power supplies, and while they may not be a brand all of you know too well, they are in fact the hardcore high-end PC gaming hardware division of the mighty ADATA. While we have some more potent units in from them to test, I’m starting today…
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be quiet! Dark Power Pro 13 1600W Power Supply Review
There’s no shortage of extremely potent power supplies these days, with enthusiast systems capable of drawing 1000-2000W with ease. All it takes is one or two high-powered processors, a bank of enthusiast-grade storage devices, and a couple of powerful modern graphics cards for gaming or rendering. At 1600W the Dark…
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Corsair RM1000e Fully Modular 1000w 80 Plus Gold PSU Review
Corsair is by far one of the biggest names in the business for power supplies, with many years of experience creating countless award-winning products, they’ve been a go-to brand for many PC enthusiasts, not just for their PSUs, but cases, coolers, peripherals and so much more. So I think it’s…
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FSP Hydro PTM X Pro 1000W Power Supply Review
FSP is something of a moderately unusual power supply manufacturer. While many consumers are perhaps not aware of their existence, it’s incredibly like that they’ve still encountered their work in the past. – Why would this be the case? Well because, and putting it rather bluntly, FSP fulfils PSU orders…
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Lian Li SP850 SFX Form Factor Power Supply Review
While standard PC chassis designs offer a plethora of power supply choices for consumers, I think it’s fair to say that when it comes to SFF and SFX builds your choices are often, comparatively speaking, a lot more limited. – With the release of the new Lian Li SP850 SFX,…
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Thermaltake ToughPower GF3 1350W Power Supply Review
Thermaltake is undoubtedly a highly respected manufacturer of PC hardware, peripherals, and components. And especially so when it comes to their power supply designs. Representing one of the few companies who always seemingly have one eye on the future, however, we have recently seen the release of their brand new…
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