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So, what have we learned about cheaper power supplies today? Well, most of the units tested here, with the exception of the Okia 420ATX, weren’t exactly really cheap $10 units. Most of them would sell for around $30 or so. It seems that the voltage regulation and ripple suppression of power supplies in this price range is at least borderline acceptable, however none of them made it to their labelled ratings, all of them use very low quality fans and capacitors, which raise some serious concerns about their long term reliability, most of them lacked fan speed controllers and so were very loud, and most had very few connectors.
Considering that, for just $20 more, you could get an In Win IP-S400CQ2-0 or a Rock PS-RK500, I really don’t consider any of these units to be particularly good value for money either. Granted, I’m not calling either of those two products perfect, since they did have higher ripple than some of the units in this roundup. However, their ripple wasn’t out of spec by a large margin so your hardware may not really care too much, and even the Teapo and OST capacitors in those units would be better than the completely off-brand and known junk capacitors used in the 8 units tested in this article, so their long term reliability would also be superior.
So there you have it, you’re better off paying $520 for a computer with a better power supply than paying $500 for a computer with something tested in this round up. Before you close your browser window, though, I have one final surprise on the next page…
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