The 2014 El-cheapo Power Supply Roundup

[LongRunner]

Another error on the page for the Powercase:

The input filtering consists of two X-Caps, two coils and two Y-Caps.

There's only one common-mode choke in that unit (and the following sentence concedes that there should be another).

Anyway, I take that Zhifa capacitors (as used in the Ultraview) are a knock-off of Zhila?

[c_hegge]

fixed

[Pentium]

I'm actually really impressed with the ripple suppression on the Honli. With one tiny cap per rail, it did reasonable, imagine how it would have been with two 2200µF caps and a coil per rail.

The Sun Pro did good considering 470µF input caps. Also, being 6 years old with crappy caps (and being low values), the ripple suppression was pretty good. Did you end up fixing it? This looks the same as the Sun Pro I worked on and posted on badcaps which managed a i7 980X and overclocked 9600GT at full load with the 12V above 12.25V at all times.

I was also really impressed with the Macron, even though I knew it was already a pretty good PSU. If that one could manage ~20A with a 16A ultra fast on the 12V, I wonder how it'd do with an upgrade. I have one that is recapped and has a 20A schottky on the 12V. I imagine that would increase the efficiency a few % as well.

[c_hegge]

I didn't end up fixing any of them. I have more spare PSUs already than I know what to do with.