Very often people writing PSU reviews don’t seem to use the PSU in their system for very long before giving their verdict. I decided to approach this review from the perspective of an everyday end user and used it in my main system for almost 2 weeks to give a real world analysis of the PSU combined with a high end Crossfire system.

Crossfire is a good way to stress test any power supply as ATI’s top end cards in Crossfire need 38A on the 12 volt rails and any power supply problems will show up as game crashes, lock outs or freezes and even in some instances graphical corruption.

I have been using my new system rather heavily for the last couple of weeks (and finding lots of nice Crossfire bugs for ATI but that’s a tale for another time) with no power supply related issues to report which is a good thing. I feel confident in recommending this PSU to anyone looking for a dual card configuration. You also may want to consider its slightly bigger brother, the 700W model if you are running a plethora of devices.

One very small downside is that the 4 pin CPU 1 and 2 plugs which often need to be fitted to more modern motherboards are both on the same cable. This means that if your Motherboard only requires one such cable the other is much harder to tuck out of the way. This is not really an issue if you need both connectors in your motherboard but still worth pointing out I feel. I would have liked to see them on separate cables personally. Also as mentioned previously I would have liked to have seen modular cables as a feature but its not a big issue by any means.

The price for this 600W unit is around 70 pounds, 100 Euros, 130 US Dollars or 443,142 Zambian Kwacha’s, which isn’t actually very expensive considering that some other brands sell for considerably more and offer less features and reliability.