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The Cougar LX Series 600 watt power supply arrives in a dark box with an image of the product on the front along with some basic specifications. We can see Cougar are offering a 3 year warranty with this particular power supply. Its actually not very clear, but they offer a 5 year warranty inside Europe. 115VAC territories get the 3 year coverage.
Our particular sample box received some rough treatment in shipping but the supply itself inside luckily wasn't damaged.
It certainly is information overload on the back of the box.
Inside the box is a regional specific power connector, some cable tidies for the system build, and a user manual alongside some mounting screws.
Connectors
– 1 x 20+4-Pin ATX12V/EPS12V
– 1 x 4+4-Pin ATX12V/EPS12V
– 4 x 6+2-Pin-PCIe
– 6 x SATA
– 3 x 4-Pin-Molex
– Warranty: 5yr
Cougar supply four PCIe connectors which is enough for a reasonable dual card SLI or Crossfire system, although you may be running in the upper 20% of power draw under load, depending on the cards you are using. The connectors use 18 AWG cables.
Teapo isn’t chinese but taiwanese and it produces good quality caps. You’re not going to expect japanese caps in a low budget unit.
Capxon on the primary side really sucks, it’s 400v certified at least ( most low budget units mount 200v primary caps, 20-30v less than european household power).
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Actually I don’t rate TEAPO as anything close to good – its true taiwanese are a little better than those sourced from Chinese plants, but neither of them are great. over the years I have had 2 or 3 of them explode when I was testing power supplies. 1 of them has also leaked. So I stand by my views, which has been based on 5 years of testing power supplies.
3 dead capacitors over 6 years of testing isn’ t good enough? I don’ t say they are perfect, i just state they are a good compromise. Can you list 5 low budget units with jappo caps? ( incoming evga b3, corsair vengeance ok, then?).
I agree with you about caps origin but we can take advantage of this difference ( i mean chinese/taiwanese) to discern pure chinese trash (capxon, jung fu,elite…) and admissible ones!
You remind me this article, Jonny from jonnyguru seems to agree with that.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/power-supplies-101,4193-5.html
Thanks for the review, greetings from Italy.
I know Jon Gerow pretty well , he works for Corsair now and other people seem to be running JohnnyGuru’s website. Not sure why on earth you are linking me to Toms Hardware or why you want a debate with me over this. I have opinions, just like you, and I personally always warn people when they are buying very budget power supplies with Chinese capacitors as I have seen quite a few failures testing power supplies over the years – its always with TEAPO capacitors. I also never said they needed to be loaded with Japanese capacitors regardless of price – I just mentioned there could potentially be problems due to my own findings. I will try and hunt out some photographs I took at the time and its always TEAPO – not other Chinese or Taiwanese brands.
i know this is old but ocuk state that the returns on Cougar units is very low in fact the lowest of any brand they sell and they used to use these in some of gaming builds they sell.
I would like to see you do other low budget psu like Kolink ones to compare.