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Akasa Green Power AK-PT050FG - Overview

We had quite a few requests from readers in the past asking us to look at some Akasa power supplies. Like Arctic Cooling, Akasa was famous for its coolers at the beginning of this millennium, but they lost business over time to increased competition. Today, the Taiwanese company has a subsidiary in England that's responsible for the European market. We asked Akasa to send us some review samples, and the first model we received is the 500W Green Power. This PSU is manufactured by Enhance, and it's supposed to be a very solid and stable unit. Rest assured, this is not the last Enhance PSU will be looking at today.

Like most power supplies these days, the Green Power has a black exterior. The front of the PSU has some small vertical perforations, which is a little odd as this could cause increased temperatures inside your system. Most of the airflow should still vent through the rear of the PSU, however.

Most of the Enhance units we've seen to date have a large heatsink attached to the rectifier bridge (upper right side of the above image), which sort of resembles an old TV antenna. The rest of the design is pretty basic but contains all of the components we would expect from a higher and power supply. Akasa uses a Nippon Chemi-Con capacitor for the primary, with Su'scon capacitors for the secondary.