Apevia SPIRIT600W Spirit 600W ATX Power Supply with Auto-Thermally Controlled 120mm Fan, 115/230V Switch, All Protections

Great power supply had all power connections needed for a 8 pin gpu and everything works great

just installed today no issues but i have installed many power supplies in my day. i have a PC i bilt in 2019 using OLD TECH. asus rampage 3 extreme gen 1 i7 990x tri channel ddr3 ram. 1660 super. win 10. its been an amazing computer still runs most everything fine and live stream with it. its in a HAF-x case. a BIG case. power supply mounts to the bottom. the main cpu power and fan power at top of the mobo was a far reach. barely reached to plug in and i had to go over my video card instead of through back of the case. so others who have large case like me similar build just note. it is 3 inches short of going through the back of your cases. everything else was far long enough. with many inches to spare. so maybe if the manufacture reads this. extend the 8 plug main cpu fan power for users. its a great price for someone reviving a old vintage machine on a budget. NOW these types of reviews are about time. this is day 1 i just installed it. its quiet. no power issues as of yet. i will come back update in 6 months and 1 year and so on. so if this company sticks around others know the quality of product. so far they are worth a 5 star. im not going to doc a star cause of a few inches in wires. i will be buying another power supply soon for another pc. and i will be back to buy this again. for a much newer machine like 2022 new. the negative reviews i read when was buying are worth ignoring. i think possible 1 off bad products. or installed wrong or had other issues. i had a 750 watt power supply in here prior. i dont game no more but run cad. so still work the video card and live stream. so we see under a load test later.

Bottomline up front: A quality unit from a known brand name that offers a really hard to beat watt-per-dollar value. Got this budget friendly PSU to replace the stock 300W psu in my Acer TC885 home PC in order to power a GPU upgrade, specifically a GTX 1060. The stock PSU did not have an 8 pin power connector, and I wasn't looking to spend a whole lot on upgrades. I've used Apevia in the past and have been happy with them, and so when I saw this and the price was right with overall good ratings, I decided to give it a go. The PSU arrived very quickly. The PSU is a simple black cased unit with a 120mm cooling fan and black fan grill, not the gawdy chrome kind. Per Apevia, the cooling is auto thermally controlled and has built in protections. The package had minimal contents...a double sided 1-page info/install sheet, a small bag of 4 knob style screws, a power cable to plug the PSU into the wall, and the PSU/cables itself, in a bubble wrap bag. I attached an unboxing video so you can see exactly what came in the box. Although the case is quite ordinary looking, it looked and "felt" to be well built. Holding the PSU, it does have some decent weight to it, and looking inside the grate and grills, you can see the components within, which all looked (and smelled) new. (I know, I know...a visual and smell test is not an objective or scientific means to test quality LOL!!!) All in all, it looked like a quality, if not cosmetically boring unit. The PSU fit in my Acer TC885 without any issue, and everything plugged up nicely. It's also very nice that the cables are all sleeved...something that more expensive units don't offer. I only needed a few of the plugs, so once all those were plugged in, I just used a velcro strap to re-bundle the rest of the unused cables and tucked them as nicely as possible inside the PC. Since it's a non-modular unit, you're unfortunately stuck with having excess cables to have to figure out how to store/tuck away in your build. Anyway, the PSU fired up with the PC without any issue. After running my PC for a while and doing a few tests to purposely draw power (benchmarking, graphic/CPU intense gaming, etc), the PSU is running smoothly. I've been running this PSU on my PC, used daily for everyday computing and some light gaming, for over a week now without any issues. So far, so good! At 600W, it's a bit overkill for my PC (i3-9100, 16GB RAM, and now a GTX 1060 GPU), but it's hard to beat the price value this unit offers, as 500W units were actually selling for more!! The only "strikes" I can think of are (1) no 80+ rating and (2) it's not on the A through C PSU tier list. But with regards to the PSU tier list, at least it's not one that's listed on the "avoid" or "replace immediately" tiers! Overall, initial impressions are: this is a quality, solidly built unit from a known brand name that is easy on your wallet. Should anything change, I'll post an update.

Likes: works, low price Dislikes: bit noisy, only one connector for motherboard.

If you're building a gamer I wouldn't recommend these psu's. Tried one and within minutes could smell burning plastic. A psu is VERY important. Buy good quality 80 + Gold if you can afford it