Product
reviews are typically a welcome nugget of knowledge when trying to make a critical purchasing decision, but we'd probably succumb to just picking a
power supply at random before actually wading through 105 reviews to find out which one was king. While this could all very well be a completely impractical prank, Stéphane Charpentier of MatBe has apparently put just over one hundred PSUs on the testing bench in order to find out which is worth your cash, and he went through a variety of flavors and wattages to make sure the very one you were eying was thoughtfully included. Without getting into specifics, Akasa's Power80+ took home the gold in the nonmodular category, Antec's Neo HE notched first place in the modular realm, the Fortron Zen won in the fanless arena, Cooler Master's Real Power Pro ruled the "
powerful" division, and Antec's Earthwatts proved the most "valuable." Of course, there's a good bit of detail surrounding the 100 other losers in the crowd, so if you're down with skimming through 140 pages of PSU reviews, the read link awaits your attention.
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posted April 27th 2007 6:23AM
I'm loving the machine translation of 'food' for psu; brings a whole new meaning to 'juice'.
Great! I always wanted to know which is the most powerful value-for-money fanless modular power supply money can buy! Glad somebody did it for me!
Aren't all French insane? ;)
Dude... Since when is Belgium a place in France?
By the way... "Belgium guy reviews..." Shouldn't that be "Belgian guy reviews..."?
"Dude... Since when is Belgium a place in France?"
At first it said french, they edited it.
I hope he got paid to do this, and I hope he used more than one of each PSU.
Noooo, guys, MatBE is from BELGIUM!
We indeed are a little bit insane ;-)
But less than french people, of course!
This is a good kind of insane. This is why we have the Internet. This poor man's work would have been completely obscured in another era. Now, 50 people will read this blog post and at least 1 of them will care.
Not a single PC Power & Cooling PSU in the mix, but I'm not surprised. Everyone knows that those PSUs are the best.
Wow, 105 Powersupplies and he didn't include a single unit from PC Power and Cooling, one of the best, if not THE best powersupply makers for computers.
pshaw! Why no comment on this?! The most reliable and efficient PSU there is??
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817151027&ATT=17-151-027&CMP=OTC-Froogle
They never tested any of the PC Power and Cooling products either. It sounds like a small conspiracy against the better makers of PSUs
Too late :')
You Americans are great.
Or should I say you America guys are great? BELGIUM is a country not a person. A person from Belgium is BELGIAN. And what comments about France have to do with it is the same as lumping Americans and Canadians togther, which as an outsider seems neither would like..
get back to the topic frenchie, we were talking about waffles here.
wow !! ... that's a lot !!
Argh. Thank god I can read technical French, or I'd still be gouging my eyes out trying to read that stilted machine translation.
Still, I'm mildly disappointed they didn't include a sound measurement into their testing rubric. (And yes, I know what the quietest PSU on the market is, I just want something with more than 200V.)
Sound measurements are done too, check for "nuisances sonores".
No Ultras, aw.
Someone so should have put a picture of a gamecube in there just to see if anyone would notice.