After reading all your comments.. I noticed that most of you guys are really brand conscious at the bottom line.

I don't really look at brand, I believe Intel also don't believe in brand but more on specs. That is why Intel come out with ATX 12V1.x ~ ATX 12V2.2 and so on.

If you tries to studies these spec from various PSU manufacturers.

Most of them only ATX 12V2.0 or ATX 12V2.01 thing like that. Very seldom you see ATX 12V2.2

I only found Fortron SAGA series, a mid end PSU with ATX 12V2.2 and it works great for me all this while.

A lot of psu supplier comes from cooler manufacturer, because it helps them sell their cooler, cooler master & themaltake are just some example.

I personally look a manufacturer experience and their expertise. If you tries to study Fortron, you will notice their main line are basically Power Supplies, therefore I presume they must know exactly what they are doing in psu.

There are psu manufacturers only stress on looks, and modular design. Meaning Power cable with connector attached to the psu. From my pass experience, these design are crap because these connection will tend to oxidised and cause a lot of problems.

Finally, to produce true wattage from a Psu, The switching transformer plays the most vital roles. It must be built using higher gauss copper wire which make them bigger when you examine from the psu vent, and then couple with huge heat sink on the switching fet and rectifier to ensure they don't overheat. This will gives you a rough estimate whether the psu is delivering as what it claims.

This post has been edited by chek: May 11 2007, 08:32 PM