** ASROCK POWER SUPPLIES **

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Hi Gang

It gives me great pleasure to announce the addition of the Asrock Power Supply range at OcUK.

I spotted these products at a trade show earlier in the year and was impressed with the design of the outer casing, the components used within each supply and the standard of the included modular cables.

We will be carrying the Taichi, Steel Legend and Phantom Gaming range primarily but I have also launched the lower cost Challenger series units too for anybody who doesn't need an ultra high spec enthusiast grade supply for their system.

Each supply comes with a strong efficiency rating relating to the price point and the high end Taichi and Phantom Gaming models include a temperature probe on the GPU end of its new 12V-2×6 power cables. This sensor can be plugged into your PSU to add “Cable Over-Temperature Protection” to your 12V-2×6 cable.

View the full range HERE

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Darkpilgrim said:
"a temperature probe on the GPU end of its new 12V-2×6 power cables"

Is this useful ?
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Given how many of them have burned out or even melted, it's a pretty handy feature. We're even seeing it happen on (relatively) lower power draw cards like 9070XT's unfortunately, the fact that awful connector became a standard (thanks Nv!) is mind boggling.
 
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Not the best timing when there's a strong perception (rightly or wrongly) of their motherboards nuking CPU's for unknown reasons. Wonder what OEM they are using?
 
The Asrock PSU range OEMs are FSP and HEC from what I am able to gather.
FSP being responsible for their higher end offerings. I've personally bought well over 20k FSP power supplies and there is a good reason behind that.

speaking of which, we will have some FSP branded options too very soon.
hope that helps.
 
The Steel Legend series are a new high end platform from HEC, a OEM that I have always slated but they have now turned out a very good psu that has been reviewing very well and backed by a 10 year warranty, I would buy one of these.

The Phantom Gaming and Taichi are both made by FSP with the Taichi being a completely new platform.

I can't find out much about the Challenger series but I guess the OEM is HEC.
 
rjk said:
Our sales on Power Supplies in the £400-£500 category are really strong. It is a huge amount of money for sure but catering for an enthusiast/performance market means we need to list flagship products as well as more cost effective stuff.
We have plenty of choice at other price points too :)
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People are mad. Can happily spend £2,000 on a GPU for 3-4 years but think spending more than £150 on a PSU that has to last 12+ years is crazy.
 
Firegod said:
People are mad. Can happily spend £2,000 on a GPU for 3-4 years but think spending more than £150 on a PSU that has to last 12+ years is crazy.
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No, people think spending £450-500 on a PSU made by a budget brand such as AsRock is mad!

There are plenty of £160-200 PSU's that are more than up to the task with a 10 year warranty and proven review wise to be great - my £160 NZXT C1200 ATX3.1, being one of them. Another £30-40-100, ontop of that is just wasted money that I could put towards an expensive GPU.

AsRock are a budget brand at best, regardless of who are making these PSU's, no-one is ever going to regard them as a premium brand, let lone pay premium money for their products :P Instead they'll continue to pay premium money, for the brands that already thrive in that market.


The same nonsense happens with motherboards, and again, it's a minority market, for people with more money than sense, who fall for 'gamer' scene tax and tacky branding :rolleyes:
 
deviation said:
No, people think spending £450-500 on a PSU made by a budget brand such as AsRock is mad!

There are plenty of £160-200 PSU's that are more than up to the task with a 10 year warranty and proven review wise to be great - my £160 NZXT C1200 ATX3.1, being one of them. Another £30-40-100, ontop of that is just wasted money that I could put towards an expensive GPU.

AsRock are a budget brand at best, regardless of who are making these PSU's, no-one is ever going to regard them as a premium brand, let lone pay premium money for their products :P Instead they'll continue to pay premium money, for the brands that already thrive in that market.


The same nonsense happens with motherboards, and again, it's a minority market, for people with more money than sense, who fall for 'gamer' scene tax and tacky branding :rolleyes:
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I'm getting the feeling you think asrock are a budget brand. :p
 
@deviation I certainly wouldn't pay £400 or £500 for a power supply. I'm just messing with you, hence the tounge emoji. I don't think asrock is budget though. But each to their own. And I certainly wouldn't pay for Asus tax neither. :)
 
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