Xigmatek Maverick S 500W

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Pros:

High price/performance ratio, Highly affordable price, Delivered full power at 46°C, Semimodular cabling design, Very good ripple suppression, Compact dimensions, Flat PCIe and peripheral cables
Excellent ripple suppression, shallow housing, undocumented semifanless mode, pretty good at handling crossloads for a group design, can take some heat

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Not Haswell ready (at least according to Intel's testing procedure), Performance in Advanced Transient Response tests, Large voltage overshoot at 5VSB during the Turnon Transient test, Efficiency (especially at light loads), Low holdup time, Only two 6pin...
Only came with two six pin PCIE connectors

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Last revision on October 9, 2015

Reviewers Liked

High price/performance ratio, Highly affordable price, Delivered full power at 46°C, Semimodular cabling design, Very good ripple suppression, Compact dimensions, Flat PCIe and peripheral cables
Excellent ripple suppression, shallow housing, undocumented semifanless mode, pretty good at handling crossloads for a group design, can take some heat

Reviewers Didn't Like

Not Haswell ready (at least according to Intel's testing procedure), Performance in Advanced Transient Response tests, Large voltage overshoot at 5VSB during the Turnon Transient test, Efficiency (especially at light loads), Low holdup time, Only two 6pin
Only came with two six pin PCIE connectors

Expert reviews and ratings

We would like to thank Xigmatek for supplying the review sample. It has been a while since we last reviewed a Xigmatek product because the company has recently only released its Maverick line consisting of three mainstream PSUs with capacities ranging...

By techPowerUp! on March 31, 2015

Xigmatek's 500 watt Maverick S has one awesome thing going for it... the housing is really shallow. This thing will go places most ATX full size units won't. Performance was a mixed bag... it hit the 80 Plus target just fine, handled some high...

By JonnyGuru on January 05, 2015

I was really impressed with the Maverick S throughout the entire review. The only real disappointment I had was in the teardown stage. Some of the soldering I observed on the underside of the PCB was simply horrendous. I also noticed what appeared to be...

By proclockers.com on June 01, 2015