EVGA Supernova G3 1000w review @ JonnyGuru

[UsandThem]

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=494

As time goes by, it gets harder and harder for units to come in here and impress me. Last year's excellence is often this year's excellence, too. But as this unit showed today, it's still possible to find a surprise or two when I hook up the load testers and let them off the leash. Quite simply, this is the most stable 1kW unit I have tested yet, voltage wise. How is EVGA, or the competition, going to top this unit? Do I need a voltmeter good to four or five decimal places? Is ripple going under 5mV? Efficiency going over 100%? I don't know. But I like where the industry is going lately.

Pretty impressive. Approaches 'Platinum' efficiency at times, and is cheaper than the excellent Seasonic Prime series, yet it is a significantly smaller housing. Definitely on my short list the next time I need to buy another PSU.

 

[thesmokingman]

That is the new sexy.

 

[Torn Mind]

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=494



Pretty impressive. Approaches 'Platinum' efficiency at times, and is cheaper than the excellent Seasonic Prime series, yet it is a significantly smaller housing. Definitely on my short list the next time I need to buy another PSU.

I wouldn't buy a Seasonic Prime right now because it didn't do well on the ATX ramp up scope shots. The Wolf finally got around to scoring it. Violations of the ATX spec can nuke everything else good about the PSU, or in the case of the Prime, it's perfection everywhere else.

 

[UsandThem]

I wouldn't buy a Seasonic Prime right now because it didn't do well on the ATX ramp up scope shots. The Wolf finally got around to scoring it. Violations of the ATX spec can nuke everything else good about the PSU, or in the case of the Prime, it's perfection everywhere else.

I hadn't seen any of that until you mentioned it. I'll have to read up on it a little more as none of that was mentioned in the initial reviews at the various hardware sites. It looks like it wasn't really noticed until they reviewed the 650w unit in November (at least didn't lower their overall rating).

I went to read up on it, and the first thing I found was a JonnyGuru forum thread with a troll annoying the crap out of Oklahoma Wolf concerning his review and rating on the Prime 650w:

http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13763&page=3

Well it doesn't really work like that. You can't just post your opinion online and expect everyone to agree with it or to hell with them. Sometimes you have to face people too when you're making mistakes. It's so easy to hide behind a statement like "If that's a problem, you know where the door is." Well, maybe i don't want to leave. Why should i leave ? Why don't you leave? If it gets too difficult and you can't even face some "internet troll" then, by all means, step down.

I loved his response:

All you have to do is take the bile and venom out of your attitude and we can discuss things like civilized human beings. I'm not at all convinced you're interested in doing that, but I'll give you one last chance.

Remember, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. More vinegar gets you the ban hammer.

There's always one annoying troll anonymously hiding behind their screen running their mouth at everyone, trying to get people riled up on forums like these. At least the mods here keep that kind of behavior to an absolute bare minimum.:beer:

 

[Valantar]

I wouldn't buy a Seasonic Prime right now because it didn't do well on the ATX ramp up scope shots. The Wolf finally got around to scoring it. Violations of the ATX spec can nuke everything else good about the PSU, or in the case of the Prime, it's perfection everywhere else.

Are those technically spec violations, though? Wolf's discussion in the review is interesting, and points out that the spec (in some areas) can be read in multiple ways. I very much doubt that the little jiggle in the ramp-up voltage is enough to nuke anything at all, although of course it would be better if it simply wasn't there.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Damn, just when I thought I was an EVGA fanboy already. Sweet.