There are really good out PSU’s that are in the market, if it is powering your home PC for normal gaming or a home media PC, there are PSU’s to fill every situation, like any other product, if there is nothing to fill, try your luck on something else. The Xigmatek is a really great and innovative company as the mark they have done in the CPU cooler that review lately; with a change of how their coolers really cool your Hot CPU. But now we are going to review a no rules PSU, The Xigmatek 1500.
The Xigmatek 1500 no rules PSU by all means great, with a large ball bearing 140mm fans on top to keep the PSU in its number when it comes to heat, being also modular PSU design makes it easy for a novice modder or even an experienced one to keep most to all of the unneeded power cables, to keep the air flow undisrupted and make you happy as well, if you have a marvellous light show in your PC. For the built quality is almost identical to the Gigabyte Odin with allot of honey comb mesh in front and in the back of the PSU, gives it a modest amount of air flow but also susceptible to dust and inevitably clogging you cooling instruments even the fan. For the features in the Xigmatek PSu is said in the label a 1500Watt rating with also the standard 80 plus rating in the PSU. For the connectivity of the Xigmatek is a 24-pin main motherboard connector, plus the six pins for those mid consuming graphics card and also the usual SATA power connectors and four pin peripheral connectors. The minus in the PSU is the limited support for an eight pin power plug, so for those GTX 280’s or 4870X2 owners, you have to dig in for the bundled eight pin converters.
For the performance test show that the Xigmatek cannot handle with the test bed specs, so we eased the stress over the PSU so we removed 3 SATA drives, having a total of only seven remaining HDD’s but when we got over it went well over the test with the stress test showing just 11.7V in the average, with the thing going down because of the dip of the current to about 11.2V, going again this is not a good sign, even to its minimal usage, just at 850 watts it barely goes to its 12.0V minimal. What’s going on in the Xigmatek wagon? Is it the innovation is killing them, yes they do have a great range of products, but the PSU should also include with the No rules power 1500 Watt cannot even go to a max load of about 850Watt, for much of the prize is concern is one dollar away to be a bargain, but for a performance we have seen, try to back away form the product for the reasons of such poor performance and overconfidence for it will never work on 1500Watt load interface.
