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Ease of Use, Performance: 4/5 Look & Feel: 4/5 Features: 4/5 How much I enjoy: 4/5Recommendation: 4/5 StarsAfter eight years of building computers from parts I have received for review I have had one power supply die on me in use in a computer and it was...
It's been a while since we did a group test of PC power supplies, so today we'll take a closer look at 19 PSUs in the 500-550 watt segment. While 500 watts might sound low in the ears of most hardware enthusiasts, for the vast majority of PCs it's...
Recently when we've tested power supplies we regularly received comments about the fact that we test the efficiency of PSUs beginning at 200 watts. That's because the energy consumption of modern desktop PCs with Ivy Bridge or Haswell processors is...
Three manufacturers sent us their new power supplies for the 500/550 watt segment. From Antec we received the VP550F, Cooler Master sent us the 500W B series model and Nexus provided their new NX-5000 V1. We will compare them to 22 other recently...
Video Review: The Nexus NX-5000V1 550W Power Supply has been revised since the original NX-5000 with 50 watts more power, has a higher efficiency and is compliant with ErP2013, but still as super quiet. Also, this PSU is super small at 125mm long,...
