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Enermax Galaxy EGA1000EWL 1000W EPS12V AC Power Supply

Reviews for Enermax Galaxy EGA1000EWL 1000W EPS12V AC Power Supply

1000W - MPN: EGA1000EWL

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  By anonymous - Oct 24, 2006

Great Buy!

Strengths: Modular cables, make any combination your heart desires, such as loads of SATA or other drives or 4 PCI-E video cards. Really quiet because of a huge intake fan.

Weakness: Big, really big. About twice the length of a standard PSU. Check if your tower will handle this thing. Sucks up a lot of juice on powerup, lights dim and everything. Might overload UPS/breakers.

Nice cable layout, semi modular so if you are running a basic setup, there's no need for the modular cables.
When are 8800GTX coming out!!!?? :D

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  By member: Mason Storm - Oct 22, 2006

Mixed review

Strengths: Should be enough to power any system for years to come; promises to use only the power it needs, not 1kW at all times.

Weakness: Nearly-constant fan speed problem warning; so big that installing it turns into a real project.

Well, hopefully this expensive PSU will provide enough stable juice to power any triple-quad system, plus liquid cooling and anything else they dream up for us, for years to come. And it claims to draw only what it needs - it's not 1kW at all times - probably far from it. And it allows you to plug in the extra modular power cables as you need them; you don't have to have all of the accessory cables plugged in all the time (and that saves airflow room in your case).

But installing it into the case - even a generous, full-tower case, turned into a learning project. I had to remove the case's top fan, an upper case HDD enclosure cage, AND ALL of the drives in the upper front of the case, in order to be able to slide this brick into place.

For the first few days, the fan speed alarm was sounding constantly - which is very annoying - and then it seemed to work itself out without any further intervention. I E-mailed Enermax Support several days ago to ask about this, and they haven't replied yet...

Perhaps this model is just too new for now. Unless you really need to get a new PSU now (my old one had completely died), I would wait a while on this one.

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Reply by member: OS1973
Sep 12, 2007

Hi Mason,

I ran into the same problem with the fan alarm as you and I wonder if you have received a reply from enermax about this.

Please let me know how this got fixed.

Best Regards,
Oliver

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Reply by member: Mason Storm
Sep 12, 2007

Hi Oliver,

EnerMax never replied to me. The warning sound still occurs about half the time upon system startup, but quickly goes away; they may not have any solution for us.

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