Theres a nice Aspire power supply. Its targeted at modders, but its actually a very good power supply in its own right.
At the base level, Its a chunky 500w power supply that costs about $60. It was tested to be very stable in the reviews Ive read and ranks among the best high wattage power supplies without costing an arm and a leg. It also has 8 large 4-pin connectors, 2 floppy sized connectors, ATX, ATX12V, and that server connector that no one uses.
As far as the fancy stuff goes, It comes in about 5 colors, and has UV reactive sleeving on all wires, and UV molex connectors, Two LED fans in the power supply, and a knob on the back that controls fan speed. Only potentially bad thing about this that it has no native SATA connectors.
Here's a review.
I use these in two of my machines, one black and one silver. The Silver one I ordered only a few weeks ago from
Xtreme Gear came with sleeving on ALL connectors unlike the one in the review, so I think they recently released a new batch. It may have SATA too now, but I didnt notice it before I installed it.
The silver machine actually had the same Enermax 431w in it before, but the its case had the PSU mounted upside down from normal orientation. The enermax's 2nd fan was sucking air from the top of my case, which was pretty useless. I really liked the Aspire in my black machine and realized that the aspire's fan is on the ends and not the sides, which was perfect for the upsidedown mounting. So I ordered a silver one and switched it up and te 431w is shelved for now.
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