Enermax Launches the Pro82+ and Modu82+
by Christoph Katzer on March 25, 2008 1:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Modu82+ Cables and Connectors
As already stated, Enermax has two red jacks for the PEG connectors and five for peripheral connectors. The 425W version (which is not included in today's test) only has four peripheral jacks. The 525W and 625W models have different harnesses in the package. The bigger brother comes with five harnesses, and two of these include have two Molex and a floppy connector. The other three harnesses each have three SATA connectors, providing up to nine SATA power connectors. All the harnesses are sleeved with Enermax's standard black mesh with a golden thread. There is one 4-pin and one 8-pin ATX 12V connector available, which is a nice addition instead of an 8-pin connector that can be split in half to get a normal 4-pin connector.
Enermax designed new connectors for easy unplugging. To unplug the connectors you only need to depress the hooks on the two sides. Then you can easily pull the connector out of the jack. The 12-pin connectors are one of the latest additions from Enermax, and they waste no time in advertising it. The idea is that the 12-pin jack with six 12V pins and six ground pins can be modified for future needs. All the company has to do is design a new plug that uses these pins in a different way. If a new connector for CPUs and/or GPUs comes out, Enermax can easily use the old jack on the power supply and sell users a new harness with the correct connectors on it.
The included harnesses are rather short with the Modu82+ series. Otherwise, it has everything a midrange to high-end users could wish for, with the ability to power a nice graphics card setup. You won't be able to power a huge number of HDDs or optical drives, but six will be more than sufficient for normal users. As shown on the above graphic, all four PEG connectors are able to act as a 6-pin or 8-pin connectors.
The installed fan is the same in all versions of this series. We have a double ball bearing fan that runs extremely silent. At 500 to 1000 RPM, this fan is not audible from three feet away; only when you put your ear right next to the fan can you will hear a very calm dragging noise.
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Bremen7000 - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - link
Horizontal bar charts for price? Really? I guess when all you have is a hammer...Woodchuck2000 - Thursday, March 27, 2008 - link
Well put...One of the shoddier reviews I've seen on Anandtech for quite some time, including some shocking graph abuse and grammatical errors throughout.
In the DC Output Stability and Quality section, There are four PSUs in the top three graphs and then only three shown in the analysis below. Which 525W supply is that?
In the graphs below, I assume the numbers at the lower half of the nonsensical Y-axis are meant to be negative? And is the load percentage on the X-axis a percentage of total rated PSU capacity, or rated line current. And in either case, are other lines loaded and if so how? You'd expect completely different 12v load characteristics depending on which other lines are loaded any how much.
"In case of ripple and noise, we were surprised to see very little distortion on the rails. The highest amount of ripple on the 12V rail was 16mV for example. The other rails were similar except the 5Vsb rail, which went a little high. That's pretty common, unfortunately."
Why is that surprising? How did you measure ripple? Is that amplitude or peak above rated? A little high under what circumstances? Why's that common, and if it's only the 5V Standby Rail, why is that necessarily unfortunate? The whole article is full of meaningless generalisations like that one...
Anandtech has enough quality writers not to need filler like this. All in all, D-
C'DaleRider - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - link
Apart from the upgrade in caps, there seems to be no design improvements. On the contrary, the workmanship looks a bit dodgy. I'd wait to see if these blow up left right and center after a year of use before passing a verdict.
[quote]To our surprise, there are two main capacitors, which is something we don't see often in Enermax power supplies.[/quote]
Whaaaaa??? Last I checked the entire FMA lineup had "two capacitors" on the primary side.
Spacecomber - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - link
At the beginning of the section on the Pro82+, you state, "The package is quite different from the Modu82+ series and comes in completely different dimensions". I think that you were just describing the dimensions of the box that the power supplies come in, but the picture at the start of the article, where the power supplies are stacked on each other, gives the impression that the power supplies themselves might be of different dimensions.Can you confirm that the external dimensions are the same for all these new models? Are these power supplies of the typical size?
Thanks.
Christoph Katzer - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - link
Yes, only the package is different.strikeback03 - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - link
Your photo of the label for the big Pro82+ shows 625W, but your charts on pages 12 and 14 say Pro82+ 525W. Which was it actually?Didn't look elsewhere, but these are on Newegg right now for $10-30 more than you list in the review. The Infiniti 650 is priced the same as the Modu82+ 625W but the Infiniti ships free, and the Infiniti 720W is cheaper than either after a $25 MIR.
Griswold - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - link
Any good reason (like you couldnt get ahold of one) for not including the 425W PSU of this line? Its by far the most reasonable of the three... too bad.