Enermax Does it really power up my test bed system of a Core 2 quad QX6850, with 4GB of DDR2 memory, a P35 chipset board that handles two crossfire 4870’s and Ten SATA drives, including one optical drive, well the answer is yes, with the Galaxy already completing my first task to do, so Let’s to the three others. The Enermax Galaxy, before going any further, is a well known elite type of company that create one of the innovative products, more or less, it only produces Computer and server cases as well as power supply for all home based and enterprise. Enermax just get their profit over in the enterprise business and in some cases if you want a high quality and enterprise grade PSU’s, they really make a good treat out of them.
The Enermax Galaxy is a conventional PSU with mostly modular, for any easy cable management, plus the standard 80 plus power saving rating, so in the power outage use is in 50 or above, it can have a power saving rating of 80%. Galaxy can be bought with a power wattage rating of 850W to 1000W equivalent; the built quality of the power supply is a normal aluminium plate cover with a Galaxy Logo all over the side of the PSU, to emphasise the so called “product†has enough endorsement to bring a large crowd over it. With the features of the Galaxy, is a 24-pin motherboard power connector with another 5 12.0v railings, with an equal amount of 6-pin and 2+6 pin connectors.
With its history of being a home and enterprise based manufacturer of power supplies and cases, one would expect good quality and performance over to the major makers like Corsair and Cooler Master. To our test bed, with an 850W PSU connected, it gave a 12.0V juice in the start in boot time and also in idle when in windows. For the rest of the power pins, the peripherals are having at least high values almost 0.05V difference from their intended voltage, while this really performed better than any PSU; with Average power voltage outage of 12.131 in the main power supply, while the 5.0v and 3.3V are in 5.006 and 3.346 volts respectively. Check how much I added more in the test rig; five more SATA HDD’s with over clocked preferences in the GPU and CPU to above 100MHz. But really it only do so much with the PSU going on its last legs (it really comes in the values) just going 11.358volts in the main means it had enough. With the Galaxy going with flying colours in our test, giving enough juice, or just over it is p[leasing to me and the test rig, I would really recommend it to any one upgrading or replacing their old PSU, word of advice, if you want future proofing in your system, buy a 1000W PSU from Enermax.
