Power Supply Build Quality Pictorial/Discussion

[duckula]

Enermax Platimax 850W 80plus platinum certified PSU. Interesting to see that Enermax soldered several capacitors on three small vertical daughter-boards. I've seen DIYers do that before, but never PSU manufacturers.







More pics:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Ener ... EWT/4.html

[c_hegge]

It looks pretty average. The heat sinks are small, and it uses taiwanese capacitors. It does deliver it's labelled wattage, but the review never mentioned the ripple.

[c_hegge]

Hard to say without seeing the ripple. The corsair CX600 will deliver 600W ripple in spec, but it uses samxon GF caps, which are probably less reliable than LTEC. If you're prepared to recap it, go with the corsair, otherwise the AcBel. If I had the option, though, I wouldn't use either. I'd go with XFX, since all of their units are seasonic made and use Japanese capacitors as far as I know.

[c_hegge]

I'd definitely go seasonic over either of those.

[duckula]

Innards of the Seasonic SS-1000XP 1000W 80plus platinum compliant PSU.

It originally had three big capacitors. The reviewer took one off in order to take picture for the daughterboard behind the primary capacitors.







More:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Seas ... 000/4.html

[c_hegge]

Reminds me of the X-series

[duckula]

Internals of the FSP AU500FL fanless power supply. It applies a complete different topology (LLC) compared to the other Aurum's (ACF).













Disassembly:
http://www.itocp.com/htmls/29/n-3129.html

Review:
http://www.itocp.com/htmls/91/n-3091.html

[c_hegge]

Wow! FSP actually built a PSU with really big heat sinks. I dind't even think that was possible!

[c_hegge]

Thanks for the spam (not)

[shovenose]

LOl. I'm getting the damn image resizer fixed (hopefully) phpBB was a damn mistake... But, I got my custom phpBB style so now I can't switch back