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The Powercolor Extreme 1000W PSU arrives in a substantial, attractively designed red and black box with details of the main features on the front and specification listings on the sides and rear.
Inside the supply is kept seperate from the cables and accessories with a dual box structure. There is a little credit card shaped note which highlights the fact that Powercolor have taken every possible step to ensure the highest quality standards.
There is a detailed manual supplied and the smaller box contains the modular cabling, a storage pouch, screws, power cable and several cable felt based cable tidies.
The branded pouch is a nice touch as it holds all the cables within four individual sleeves.
As expected for a high end 1000W power supply we are presented with a full array of cabling to cover all eventualities. These cables however deserve a little discussion as they are all sleeved and ‘extra length' – 60cm long, with the HDD Cabling extending to 90cm for the biggest cases and multiple drive configurations.
The rear is very nicely laid out with foolproof listings under each port to explain exactly what to connect.
The power supply is one of the most striking looking units we have seen in recent years, primarily black with high tech lettering and a bright red 140mm fan taking centerstage.
If they made power supplies with a sports car flavour then the Powercolor Extreme 1000W is without a doubt, the american muscle car. This is a mean looking design and we love it. The front is vented to allow for good airflow outside the chassis.
That is the nicest PSU ive seen to date. love the red fan, looks awesome.
(good performer too obviously).
This is very surprising. I knew XFX were making PSU’s and Sapphire, but Powercolor? shock of the week for me. Good OEM design tho.
Powercolor get a bad name for some reason and I dont know why, their GFX cards are really good too. nice review.
Lovely design both inside and out, the heatsinks are very prominent internally to help with cooling I see. sounds like a small point but ive seen some companies use very few then the fan goes nuts trying to keep it all under control.
Excellent, nice to see more good looking (and performing) PSUs hitting the market. cross loading was good.
good design, love the appearance.
a lot of good high end psus on the market right now. if this hits 150 quid will be a good buy. the gold cert ones are 80 more.
ive been waitin to see a review of this now for a few weeks. seems like they did well. I think powercolor are better than most people say.
any ideas when this is released?
when is the release date in europe? no info anywhere. would be good if you told us in the review.
i like the effort they put into the appearance as well as the technical components inside.
Looks like it could be a big seller for powercolor. only real issue this company have right now is getting their name brand higher regarded than it is right now. not many people rate them compared to say sapphire. they will have to go head to head against corsair now in this market.
Why no pics of the label on the unit? It would have been nice to see the full specs of the individual rails: amps on each +12v rail for example…..
20a for each 12v rail
Hmm, I don’t know. While it may be a good product for a good price, at this power level (1000W) most of users expecting fully modular design (including 24 line and 4+4). Modular cables are usually more flexible (except Enermax) than default 24+4+4 coming from inside. Just a thought.
I have bought one of this a mounth ago and exactly 30 days after it broke down! I do not know what is the problem with this PSU, but from the reseller said that they do not know what is wrong with it and will give me back the money that i have spent to bye it. So i am totaly dissapointed from the Powercolor’s PSU 🙁