Xigmatek No Rules Power 1500W

You'll be able to spot this power supply in computer stores if you just look for a gargantuan box. Although the name seems to imply massive, beefy, rebellious-physics-outlaw levels of wattage, you'd be forgiven for feeling gyped if you managed to take it to its full potential.

It's a generic 1500 watt box that's also been rebadged by Inwin and Thermaltake. It can't power all of Big Willy; just 19 drives. But it does come with arguably more PCI-e power cables than you need. Which is worrying when you look at the low readings on the twelve volt rails throughout the tests.

Thankfully the side effects of too little voltage aren’t as severe as too much voltage – but this wasn’t an issue with any of the supplies we tested. Just as a casual aside, this thing retails for anywhere between $400 and $570. Just saying, is all.

After we ran through our battery of tests and shut down to prepare to take startup readings, we found that the thing didn't even start reliably, giving us an annoyingly incomplete results spreadsheet.

It may lumber around being all loud and acting like it's king of the hill, but that's only because it's got problems going the distance. And there's no CENSORED longer lasting CENSORED watts CENSORED CENSORED nasal delivery technology CENSORED CENSORED for PSUs CENSORED CENSORED donkey CENSORED US Senator CENSORED CENSORED CENSORED explosion.

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