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I like the design of this power supply. It is simple but effective. But yes that is a shame to put CapXon in it....even for an entry level unit. Are you going to recap it?

450W is considered small and entry level? o_o I know it's obviously the "norm" in this day and age but still... and I've seen bigger heatsinks in 250W units but they did only have 80mm fans and they were very overbuilt... I wonder how they achieved such low ripple and noise on each rail... and I've seen more restrictive grilles than what this PSU employs.

EDIT: Nevermind, regarding the ripple, I see that the load on the PSU wasn't that large per rail.

Pentium wrote:I like the design of this power supply. It is simple but effective. But yes that is a shame to put CapXon in it....even for an entry level unit. Are you going to recap it?

Already done. Its got Pannies and Nichicons now (and one NCC KZE).

Wester547 wrote:450W is considered small and entry level?

It's small enough that the single rail isn't really a big issue. Not like an 800W with 60A + on a single rail. When I say entry level in the review, I mean that this is an entry level 450W product, not like, for example, the more up-market Seasonic G-450.

Wester547 wrote:I know it's obviously the "norm" in this day and age but still... and I've seen bigger heatsinks in 250W units but they did only have 80mm fans and they were very overbuilt

Again, we're dealing with an entry level 450 Watter here. It's not super silent, and the fan controller does spin the fan up quite a lot at full load. That's not to say that bigger heat sinks couldn't have been used, though

Wester547 wrote:I've seen more restrictive grilles than what this PSU employs.

So have I, but I'd still much prefer a wire grille.

And this is how it should be done. Jap caps with a wire grille.

I hope they don't want the review sample back (if they did give it to you). If you bought it, ignore that statement.

It's certainly an interesting review though, and a bit saddening. Isn't the CX430 also using lousy caps? Unrelated but it might be interesting to note that I do use a Corsair 200R case on my primary computer and while it's an awesome case I did try to get a missing piece (USB 3.0 to 2.0 front panel header adapter) that they said came with the case but didn't, but they were rude and I never got it... had to ask a friend for one. So I really don't know why people love Corsair all that much...

The PSU was given to me. The CX430 usually uses Samxon GF caps, which are probably a tad better than their CapXon equivalent. Proably not by much, though.

CX or VS. Cx hawe god price on amazon, but vs bad caps you say, dou you really nead change caps or maybe after 60 years its blow up like my 7 years old FSP GROUP, i think its destroyed my old mobo and gpu but asus board stil is good.

I don't personally trust Capxon for any longer than 3 years use. They might hold up longer, but it's hard to say. I ended up using the PSU in a relative's PC, and wanted to be doubly sure I wouldn't have to replace it in 3 years time.