Belgium guy reviews 105 power supplies, teeters on insanity

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.

[Via Inquirer]

[Josh @ Apr 27th 2007 7:26AM]

I'm loving the machine translation of 'food' for psu; brings a whole new meaning to 'juice'.

[Crayola @ Apr 27th 2007 7:44AM]

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!

[ph @ Apr 27th 2007 7:50AM]

Aren't all French insane? ;)

[Beun @ Apr 27th 2007 11:49AM]

Dude... Since when is Belgium a place in France?

By the way... "Belgium guy reviews..." Shouldn't that be "Belgian guy reviews..."?

[ph @ Apr 27th 2007 12:05PM]

"Dude... Since when is Belgium a place in France?"

At first it said french, they edited it.

[Iscariote @ Apr 27th 2007 8:44AM]

I hope he got paid to do this, and I hope he used more than one of each PSU.

[mj @ Apr 27th 2007 9:08AM]

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.

[LightningCrash @ Apr 27th 2007 9:38AM]

Not a single PC Power & Cooling PSU in the mix, but I'm not surprised. Everyone knows that those PSUs are the best.

[Tim @ Apr 27th 2007 9:38AM]

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.

[Rick (the original Rick) @ Apr 27th 2007 9:41AM]

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

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Apr 29th 2007 10:19AM]

They never tested any of the PC Power and Cooling products either. It sounds like a small conspiracy against the better makers of PSUs

[steve @ Apr 27th 2007 11:12AM]

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..

[Je2037 @ Apr 27th 2007 11:24AM]

get back to the topic frenchie, we were talking about waffles here.

[Beun @ Apr 27th 2007 11:51AM]

Too late :')

[sLm4ever @ Apr 27th 2007 12:11PM]

wow !! ... that's a lot !!

[David @ Apr 27th 2007 12:58PM]

Noooo, guys, MatBE is from BELGIUM!

We indeed are a little bit insane ;-)
But less than french people, of course!

[Neebs @ Apr 27th 2007 2:22PM]

No Ultras, aw.

[Tim @ May 2nd 2007 8:12AM]

Someone so should have put a picture of a gamecube in there just to see if anyone would notice.

[Webwolf @ Oct 7th 2008 6:48PM]

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.)

[Keet @ Apr 27th 2007 7:56PM]

Sound measurements are done too, check for "nuisances sonores".