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500W to 550W: 12 Power Supplies Compared
500W to 550W: 12 Power Supplies Compared
Date: February 20th, 2009
Topic: Cases/Cooling/PSUs
Manufacturer: Various
Author: Christoph Katzer
 
 

BFG LS-550 - Overview


The LS-550 is our first ever BFG power supply unit and we've been looking forward to it. BFG is renowned for its graphics hardware as well as motherboards, and now that they've hired power supply reviewer JonnyGuru we're quite interested in seeing what they can do in the PSU market. The unit we are reviewing today is also manufactured by Enhance, which is clearly visible in the distinctive layout. BFG chose to go with the 140mm fan most Enhance units are using, which is a good idea since these fans are a real benefit to the power supplies.


The design looks very similar to the Akasa unit, except it appears BFG went with a longer case to fit the fan. The heatsinks also look slightly different, although placement is the same. The rectifier bridge again gets its own heatsink, which is typical of Enhance made power supplies. A 105°C Nippon Chemi-Con capacitor is used in the primary, paired with a few Teapo caps in the secondary.

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62 Comments - Last by MadMan007, 174 days ago
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Fantastic Article by Ditiris, 354 days ago
Christoph,

This is easily the best presentation of material I've ever seen on Anandtech. Furthermore, it's a survey of mainstream components which is probably what 95% of your readership is going to buy. Those two things easily make this the best article I've ever seen on Anandtech.

As someone who does technical presentations all the time, I know how difficult it is to condense large amounts of data into easily understandable formats. You really did a fantastic job. Thank you, and I look forward to more articles.

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RE: Fantastic Article by lemonadesoda, 354 days ago
Excellent article. Keep up the thorough and objective (and structured) content! Top marks.

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RE: Fantastic Article by homerdog, 354 days ago
Agreed, excellent article. Now give XClio some love!

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RE: Fantastic Article by JarredWalton, 353 days ago
LOL... funny you mention them, as my XClio PSU just bit the dust today. :-(

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Good article but... by Exar3342, 354 days ago
It seems that PSU reviews dominate the reviews here at AT lately. Where did all the memory and CPU shootouts go? What about comparing panel sizes and reviewing them?

I don't want to take anything anything away from this PSU review, it was excellent. Just give us more review variety!

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RE: Good article but... by crimson117, 354 days ago
What are you talking about? There's plenty of that kind of coverage...

Holiday Memory Guide - several choice DDR2 and DDR3 modules are listed with OC results.

Phenom review, with lots of benchmarks comparing almost every current AMD and Intel CPU.

24" LCD Roundup is a little outdated, but monitor models don't change over as often as CPUs do.

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RE: Good article but... by Gary Key, 354 days ago
DDR3 Roundup - 3/3 (nine sets, 1066~2000)
DDR2 Roundup - 3/10 (eleven sets, 800~1150)
Interspersed each week for the next month will be various motherboards in the under $150 price range, budget CPUs, storage (external, NAS, internal HDD/SSD), and even some GPU action showing what you get for under a $100 compared to integrated graphics. We just went through a major overhaul of our base test suites, start rolling out the new stuff next week.

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Really bummed with the Tuniq by 7Enigma, 354 days ago
I'm really upset with the Tuniq's poor showing. I built a system last month using the Tuniq after recommendation by Mr. Katzer in the comments section and had thought it would have performed much better. I ended up only paying $40 (if the $40 rebate actually comes in) which is about as low as you can get for a 550psu, but I would not have chosen it if this review had been available.

Really disappointed.

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good review by marc1000, 354 days ago
congrats for including Arctic Cooling and Akasa units. will ready more carefully later. cheers.

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sample size of 1 by drank12quartsstrohsbeer, 354 days ago
I'd like to see a few tests done that would show the variation between identical units. These powersupply builders rely on other manufacturers for the components, so the chances for a bad component to make it into a unit is a lot higher than for some other computer equipment.


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