Enermax-Galaxy-1000 PSU how does it measure to modern day PSU's

Madeddie · 10 Mar 2011 at 08:06

Hi All,

I bought one of these (see below url) around mid 2007, if I recall it cost me around the £250 mark (yes very expensive) - I've had no issues with it at all but shortly I will upgrade a fair amount of my components , possibly even run a gtx590 depending on he price and performance combo.

What I want to know is this PSU being 3-4 years old and being probably the top end of the market during the time of my purchase how does it stand up against the modern day PSU's and will it still be able to run modern day components without issues, or do i need to say goodbye to something so close to my heart.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Enermax-Galaxy-1000-W-Power-Supply/365/1

thanks in advance for any advice.

pcAnywhere · 10 Mar 2011 at 08:09

That's still a damn good PSU - if it's working right (ripple OK etc) then no need to change

ghutchison14078 · 10 Mar 2011 at 09:07

Thats was the Mac Daddy of PSU's for years...probably still better than a lot of the 1kw units available today

MikeHunt79 · 10 Mar 2011 at 09:10

A 1Kw PC PSU is as overkill today as it was 3-4years ago.

Measure your load at the wall, most PC's struggle to pull more than 500W even when running benchmarks...

ghutchison14078 · 10 Mar 2011 at 09:19

MikeHunt79 said:
A 1Kw PC PSU is as overkill today as it was 3-4years ago.

Measure your load at the wall, most PC's struggle to pull more than 500W even when running benchmarks...

The issue there is that the wattage may indeed be far beyond the systems requirements but high end PSU's have far superior output from the 12v rails....something you defintely need if your running SLI or Crossfire with high end cards or serious overclocks on your components.

MikeHunt79 · 10 Mar 2011 at 09:30

ghutchison14078 said:
The issue there is that the wattage may indeed be far beyond the systems requirements but high end PSU's have far superior output from the 12v rails....something you defintely need if your running SLI or Crossfire with high end cards or serious overclocks on your components.

Yep more modern computers tend to use more current on the 12v rails but even 3-4 years ago high powered PSU's still offered plenty of current of the 12v rail(s)

I'm not 100% if I have the right model here, but 75A on the 12v rail is enough to run pretty much any computer:

even if you go for quad core and SLI gfx along with a ton of other things...