The Gigabyte is being one of the major distributors of cases, motherboards, graphics cards, water-coolers, expansion card like SATA PCI or I-RAM and now power supplies! I there anything a hungry Asian company could do (buy this website!). Well, we could ever wish about it, you could wish that the Odin 850 be one of the items in the Christmas list. The Gigabytes Odin 850 is an 800watt to the 550watt power supply with the standard 80 plus power efficiently, which means it has an efficiency rating in about 50% when using only about 80% of its total power supplied. Not surprisingly, this type of PSU’s has its own software driver to run its settings and also, if you want to have it, is an odometer for your PSU, that read the temp of the PSU, the voltage and the fans speed. This really is the sight for the most enthusiast items i could see in the market to a PSU! But sanity intact we move on.
The Gigabyte Odin 850 is a PSU that includes removable cables to choose what are you going to use and for the rest can be removed safely and having no problems with a cluttered wires going inside the case. It has a four pin to six-16-pin SATA connectors, with also only one eight pin connector for the CPU alone, and also one four Pin, four 6 and 4-pins for the VGA cards. Plus some bundles like four thermometer s included and also the usual pins recommended in the board. The PSU chassis is an aluminum sheet that can be removed in a sideway position (I wouldn’t’ if I were you, for warrantee purposes) and reveals a blue PCB board with extremely large electrolyte capacitors and resistors that tower in the PCB and on top is a 140mm double ball LED fan that completely cool the PSU in the height of things. The PSU itself is good built and unusual add-ons like the odometer and a software control system. Most jut gives you the software for the tweaking and nothing else but able to please most of the DIY PC makers in some degree.
For the PSU’s performance is quite in the high mark with other 800-watt counterparts, able to power up 12 peripherals with no unstable problems just on its maximum wattage output. but the power up sequence of the PSU has a lazy start at first just going 12.0V in about 5 seconds. Much of the Odin’s performance comes to its stability and also the upgradability of the system. it is great to use other high wattage PSU’s, like power output to about 1100W, but the Odin can still compete with this specs.
