Silver Power Blue Lightning 600W
by Christoph Katzer on August 27, 2007 6:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Cases/Cooling/PSUs
Internals, Continued
The heat sinks have been designed for cooling by the 120mm fan that will be located directly below them. The large horizontal area will absorb most of the airflow and dissipate heat quite well. However, there's not much space between the fins which means that very little air will cool the area below the heat sinks. The heatsinks should stay cool, but they end up acting as an umbrella for the rest of the components.
The temperature diode is attached to one end of the secondary heatsink. The temperature sensor can be attached to a variety of locations that all work well, and there's certainly no problem with this location.
All of the secondary capacitors are also manufactured by Teapo.
The heat sinks have been designed for cooling by the 120mm fan that will be located directly below them. The large horizontal area will absorb most of the airflow and dissipate heat quite well. However, there's not much space between the fins which means that very little air will cool the area below the heat sinks. The heatsinks should stay cool, but they end up acting as an umbrella for the rest of the components.
The temperature diode is attached to one end of the secondary heatsink. The temperature sensor can be attached to a variety of locations that all work well, and there's certainly no problem with this location.
All of the secondary capacitors are also manufactured by Teapo.
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Samus - Monday, August 27, 2007 - link
It appears that a log of people on newegg have this PSU fail after a few months. Now before we get into newegg consumer feedback 'reliability' :) there are a few people who've had these fail, not just one or two.I'm ganna give it a shot anyway. Should work well with my DFI Infinity 975 board, being EPS12v and all.
Slaimus - Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - link
Knowing it is an Apex-built power supply took most of the wind out of its sails. Apex, also known as L&C and Deer, has made some of the most unreliable power supplies ever.This seems to be one of their better efforts, but reliability will always be a concern with this company.
mindless1 - Thursday, August 30, 2007 - link
SMPS tech is reasonably mature beyond present tweaking a bit for higher efficiency, more 12V current, and these without cost rising out of control.Point being, Apex (actually better known as Foxconn or Hon Hai) can easily build quality PSU, it is not inability it is the choice of product placement and construction cost that results in some of the junk we've all seen.
As for reliability, there is a problem as always that you hear of someone with a failed PSU but no autopsy most of the time. No disrespect meant to reviewers, but over the years I can't could how many times a product seemed good at first glance, and second glance (a review period), but later a fault compromised the lifespan. A review of one unit can't take forever, it is going to be inherantly limited in scope, but still must be seen as a way to disqualify products more than qualify them for long term use.