Enermax Liberty 500W

[CapFTP]

hi guys, here I am trying to show you the new product coming from Enermax.
Let's start with some pics.



It arrives in a carton box, and all the infos are written outside as usual.
But let's open and see what's inside.



from the left: power chord, manual, power supply (w/o cables), and a misterious black thing....



Inside we find all the cable collection...according to the news tendences, the cables are not connected to the power supply, but user can connect them when necessary.
And that's all a gift for a good lookin and well ordered case !!

2x power supply for PCI-x cards



2xcable as follow
2 x molex
2 x S-ata
1x Floppy



2x cable as follow
2 x molex
2 x S-ata



A detail of the connector: ATX24 pin is a composite connector = 20 + 4 pins.
Then there's a tachimetric connector for the fan, and a dual +12 v (2x 4pin)



Let's take a look at the power supply itself: as in most modern models, we just have a single big fan...



and a "opened" backplate for air extraction



In the front part....all the female connections for the cable described above



and here we look at the nominal datas:

[CapFTP]

Platform for tests:

AMD sandiego 3700+ @ 2700 mhz
Full Air Cooling with Thermalright Xp90-C + Enermax fan da 92 mm
DFI nf4 SLi-D
2x80 Gb Seagate 7200.7
DVD reader
2x6600 Gt SLI

Let's start, looking ath the BIOS screen compared with my digital multimeter:
There's a certain difference ....but all the values are above nominal value:

[CapFTP]

Next step: a comparison with Smartguardian tool in Win:

We still get errors between mobo's readings and multimeter, but still very good values.

[CapFTP]

Let's get under stress:

Here's a prime95 session @ 2700 mhz, while I'm doing all my silly things.....chat, mails...and so on...

here the values:

[CapFTP]

we just measure a little reduction on +5 but Liberty 500 still shows he's always over the nominal values...

I relly wanted to stress a "medium" system, so only 2x80 gb HDD and a DVD reader, but with 2 VGA cards and a 1.55 vcored overclock

For sure we can think of any overstressing tests, but a prime working on 100% on CPU and a normal use of the PC in the same time is really more of what a normal user could do any day.

PSU is really good IMHO, withous any voltage reductiion and anyway never under nominal values.
in the past, one at least of the 3 values could be "under"...not now..

I started this test thinking of a PSU more oriented for guys loving nice to see case.....rather than overclock oriented config.
But I have to contraddict myself......we surely don't have any trimmer for pumpin up voltages....Enermax is solid and conservative in this choice.
But..who needs to pump up...if the values are already good ????

I'm really satisfied of this PSU....very low noise, very ordered case w/o too many cables.......

My great thnxs goes to Maria Rosa and Desiree of Enermax for having sent me the sample you see....

[perkam]

WOW...Nice !!!

Thx for Sharing that w/ us CapFTP Good to know Enermax is back at making some good quality PSUs after the noisetaker series

Excellent stuff

Perkam

[Cooper]

Great review CapFTP

[Cobalt]

This is perfect. I was just thinking about getting a new PSU and this one caught my eye. I was just comming here to see if anyone has one and guess what the first thing I see is...

Thanks

[CapFTP]

happy that you like it

[Jupiler]

This is perfect. I was just thinking about getting a new PSU and this one caught my eye. I was just comming here to see if anyone has one and guess what the first thing I see is...

Thanks

Some earlier tests from me with the same 500W version.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...2&postcount=28


Nice review CapFTP. Thanks for sharing the results and thoughts.

[Primoz78]

Well done CapFTP!...I`m more interesting in the 620W one...but can`t find any in shops here

Regards,
Primoz

[STickGuy]

Well done CapFTP!...I`m more interesting in the 620W one...but can`t find any in shops here

Regards,
Primoz

I to am looking for the 620 one. Would be nice to see a review of that one
But anyway thanks for the info

[perkam]

Enermax Liberty 620W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...Supply+for+Cas

Enermax Liberty 500W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817194003

And something else I found out

412W with a stock FX55, Stock cards, One GB of ram stock, One HD and integrated audio. Add a couple HD's, 2GB ram, OC everything. You are on the edge. You might get away with it. I know a Antec NEO 480 will not run it. I tried more than one. A NEO will run a SLI 256MB OC'd, FX57 @ 3GHz,2GB of ram @ 500MHZ, 2 raptors and 1 seagate. I added the 512MB cards stock and the system was very unstable. (It did run a single 512MB card fine.) I went to a 620 Enermax Liberty. (We use modular supplies for looks as the case is acrylic.) These cards draw 22A from the 12V line per card so if your PSU is rated for that you should be fine. All I am saying is that if you have the $$$ for two 512MB cards speed the little extra and buy a 550+ Watt PSU to give your self a little headroom.

It seems even the Enermax Liberty 500W should be able to handle that

Perkam

[[cTx]Philosophy]

sounds nice Im looking more in the price range of around 80ish what would you recomend in that price range?
I have a fort 530 that I will be replacing, so hopefully it can run more stable rails that my aging fort 530

[CapFTP]

It seems even the Enermax Liberty 500W should be able to handle that

Perkam

mh....I'll try asap (i hope) with 2x7800 gtx 512 megs SLI....perhaps a good 3700+ clocked and some more...

We'll check..

[perkam]

Philosphy...For $80, there's no better PSU :
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817101509

CapFTP, that'd be great if you could test it thoroughly with the GTXs and FX-57s A real treat for members here.

Perkam

[NickS]

I have the Tagan 2Force 480w SLi, similar to that, more $ tho. I love it.

[MaxxxRacer]

tagan == ocz == good.

[Dumo]

The big brother also good..



@capFTP...nice review

[perkam]

Whoa !!! Which PSU is that Dumo !!!

Perkam

[Dumo]

Whoa !!! Which PSU is that Dumo !!!

Perkam

Heres...http://www.enermaxusa.com/catalog/pr...products_id=68

and this...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...C-pr1c3grabb3r

Heres with zippy and antec...

[CapFTP]

LOL...have to check if it fits in my dining room.....

[ZeroX]

Nice review

[NickS]

So does that Enermax actually beast PCP&C? lmfao, sure looks it

[perkam]

So does that Enermax actually beast PCP&C? lmfao, sure looks it

Very big quality difference between Enermax and PCP&C ... Though Enermax/Antec have that rails thing on the nose...with Antec offering up to 3 rails and Enermax offering up to four 12v rails.

Perkam