Kingwin Extreme Series 350W with SATA ready PSU - $29.99 with $6 s+H

[Derux]

I think this is an awesome deal. iocombo has Kingwin Power Supply 350W with SATA ready for $29.99 with $6 shipping. This is the lowest price I can find. Newegg price is still somewhere in $41 after shipping link.

 

[Madcowz]

Is this is a good Power Supply? How does it compare to Antec's or Enermax? Is this quiet?

 

[Montano]

Looks like a decent PS.

 

[mindless1]

Kingwin PSU isn't as good as Antec or Enermax, is just a bit better than generic. If you have only $36 to spend it might be better to get a Sparkle/Fortron 300W,

 

[K-squared]

Do you have any reviews supporting this? Do the Antec/Enermax power supplies have dedicated Serial ATA power leads????

Originally posted by: mindless1
Kingwin PSU isn't as good as Antec or Enermax, is just a bit better than generic. If you have only $36 to spend it might be better to get a Sparkle/Fortron 300W,

 

[mindless1]

Originally posted by: K-squared
Do you have any reviews supporting this? Do the Antec/Enermax power supplies have dedicated Serial ATA power leads????

Sure, here's my mini review:

- Inferior fans
- lower-capacity mosfets
- lower-capacity transformer
- 175W combined 3V + 5V rating
- Lower quality Capacitors
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Err, wait a minute, why aren't you doing the research then we can discuss it, instead of putting the burden on me, someone who was trying to be helpful? If I had to stop and "prove" everything I write, especially every 2nd-rate PSU out there including each time they're relabled, I'd be doing it all day long since there's always someone in every forum who doesn't know already. Anyone with a lot of experince knows that name-brand is the only assurance of quality. Name-brand as-in, a power supply with manufacturer's name on the label, not a relabel. Having a major manufacturer's name on the label adds value, but major manufacturers won't leave their name on it when it's a down-spec'd model. Also it's fairly well known that Enermax is inferior to their popular competition in same-price so it'd be no great feat for it to be as good as a ~350W Enermax. All the other major name-brands beat a 350W Eneramax. Hell, even Tom's Hardware figured out that they're not worth their rating.

Sometimes if a PSU is cheap enough the user can consider it an acceptible risk for the $ savings, but at $36 the risk outweighs the $ savings. If you want it, buy it.

 

[assemblage]

Fortron PS's are also good

 

[Buickbeast]

Yeah, don't let the sata power leads sway your buying decision. All sata hard drives have regular molex connectors on them and will until the next generation of sata drives come out.

 

[SUOrangeman]

I think SVC was a 450W PSU with SATA leads for the same price. I think the manufacturer is Real Power, which didn't give me an instant warm-fuzzy. Granted, I've been using a 350W supply for my dual-Athlon + 4 HD + GF4 Ti4600 system for years now with NO problems.

-SUO