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The 120mm x 120mm x 25mm Globe fan is a bright yellow B1202512M model, rated at 0.30A. This is a thermally controlled double ball bearing fan. The ‘M' moniker at the end of the naming actually stands for ‘medium speed'. They do make low speed fans, but they aren't often used in power supply designs.
Internally, the design is clean with several large heatsinks positioned to ensure adequate cooling.
This design uses capacitors rated to 105c across the board, ensuring high reliability and long term stable performance levels. The Nichicon aluminum electrolytic capacitors are high quality.
The design sandwiches the 80 plus transformer between a dual heatsink configuration to help ensure high levels of heat are easily dispersed.
The supply supports full OVP, UVP, SCP and OCP protection. Wiring is well routed and protected with thick rubber housing ensuring that the cabling will not fray against the metal chassis.
Very cheap product, looks well. internals seem ok.
Another Solytech design./ doesnt seem quite as impressive, but obviously the price is the reason.
This site always appears really fair and even handed with product reviews. This is a decent effort from powercolor for the budget audience. it looks great which means many system builders might use it in more budget oriented systems with side panels.
For the price, if it hits US and UK in relation to that Canadian price, it is a solid enough buy. Some PSUs in this price range dont have proper protection circuitry. This is very important.
I really dig this product. most 50 quid psus look like a mess. appearance isn the main buying point with a PSU obviously but at least it looks well too.
Good buy for a kid with not much cash. would even handle a low powered CF or SLI system. cant be bad for 50 quid. also, as someone else said, at least we know now that the protection circuitry works which brings peace of mind. our local store sells some shitty looking far east psus at this price and I wouldnt trust them.
Bit underwhelming. for 15 quid more there are much better buys on the market right now
Will do me nicely. have to wait and see how much the UK stock it for. but its right in my cash bracket (ie none).
The colors are awesome. shame they didnt use this color scheme on the higher models. I know it sounds daft bringing up this, but I have a killer rig with side panels and lighting. love this scheme. I might actually buy it, take out the components inside and put another PSU into it.
Are you for real Tri Color? why not just get a new fan for the one you currently have. I think you can buy good enough yellow colored fans to suit your PSU. if its a 120mm or 140mm one anyway
I think the 585W figure is the combined wattage allowed on the 3.3V, 5V and 12V together. Other than that, cool to see a Solytech unit that actually does well.