Review: 750W-1000W PSU shootout

by Josh Blodwell on 21 June 2007, 17:11

Tags: Enermax (8093.TWO), Tagan, SilverstoneTek

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Enermax Galaxy 1000W


Like the 850W, if you lose the manual for the Enermax Galaxy 1000W, you can always read the instructions on the back of the retail box.

Also like the 850W, there are eight sockets on the PSU for modular wiring - red for PCI-E or EPS plugs and the rest general-purpose for you to do with as you like.

Just look at that 135mm fan - it's huge!
Of course, a big fan can spin slower to push the same volume of air as a small fan and that almost certainly explains why the Enermax models are so much quieter than the other supplies on test.




Inside the big box? Yes, another big box.



As with the 850W, the inner box holds a manual, a mains-power cable, screws, badges and a pouch filled with modular cables and fasteners for them.




At last, something different to talk about! The 1000W model comes with one extra modular SATA cable (five in total - all half-sheathed). And, since the PSU has one hard-wired, triple-drive SATA cable, that brings the potential total of SATA drives to 18!

If you end up running out of SATA cables with this PSU, you should expect to receive an expensively-produced Christmas card from the retailer that sold you all those drives - at very least.



Again, red plugs only fit into red sockets, so it's pretty hard to go wrong.



There's a lanyard, too, of course.



But, this time, we reckon, the idea is to have something to hang yourself with if the 1000W supply causes a brown-out of the national grid.