Is the Enlight 400W PSU - EN-8407362 any good? Better than Enermax?

[junthin]

As the title states:

Is the Enlight 400W PSU - EN-8407362 any good? Better than Enermax? Any opinions? Any help? LMK, thanks!

Btw, how much would the enlight ps cost? How about the Enermax? LMK, thanks!

 

[wti]

that power supply is good but not as good as the enermax's

 

[junthin]

Ahh..ic..so where would I go get a Enermax? What's so good about the Enermax anyways?

 

[miniMUNCH]

The quality of your power supply directly effects the like of your components and the general "overclockability" of your system. I'll explain...

All the capacitors on your MB are there to regulate the power, like minature UPS's, to your chipset, memmory, CPU, and peripherals. However, the MB is really not designed for power regulation...the DC power supply is supposed take care of that.

There are two spec to look to determine the power regulation "quality" of a power supply. The "regulation %" and the "ripple rating". The regulation specs simply state how close the PS will control voltage levels for 5V and 12V supplies; e.g. if the regulation is 1% on 5V then the PS supplies will control the 5V signal within 4.95V and 5.05V, which is really good. The ripple rating states how well the PS controls voltage spikes; the rating is usually given in either percent of millivolts; the lower the ripple rating the better. Usually, although not always, ripple ratings are spec'd "p-p", that is "peak to peak"...so 1% p-p control on the 5V line will control the 5V signal within 0.05V p-p or 50mV p-p, or which means the voltage will never spike more than 0.025V from the regulated average voltage.

The spec's of 1% regulation and 1% ripple are very good specs and can generally only be found on high quality supplies.

The second feature of high quality power supplies are good cooling and "quietness".

Enermax's are good, especially for the cooling and quietness aspects, but the good SPI (they are the manufacturer) power supplies packaged by Sparkle and PC Power and Cooling are better on the regulation side of things as well as providing excellent cooling.

If your a high performance OC'er...get a high performance SPI PS. Otherwise an Enermax is your best bet and still very good for OC'ing.

Directon.com and inflowdirect.com are good places to get Enermax PS's as well all kind s of other good stuff.

inflowdirect.com
Directron.com

 

[miniMUNCH]

Also Junthin,

(Edited) Not sure if Enlight makes their own PS's...I think they buy from Sparkle directly. Check the PS spec's against what I said above. Generally as a rule...if the PS's regulation is good then the other power handling characteristics are top notch too!

Enermax's are really quiet and provide excellent cooling, as well as good power regulation...better than most all but not better than some of the high end SPI PS's packaged.

PC Power and Cooling makes some quiet PS's too but they are more expensive than Enermax.

Edit: Checked that Englight PS...no regulation info....but you could call and find out about the regulation...the PS's have good hold up time which generally means good regulation, but not always.

 

[junthin]

Thanks for all the help miniMUNCH!

 

[burat]

How about EMACS power supplies?

 

[Viperoni]

PC Power and Cooling PS's are rebadged Sparkle's

 

[Yozza]

Check Enermax's Website for info on their power supplies.

Yoz