COOLMAX CR-450B 450W ATX Power Supply

Pros: Reasonable
Lasted 4 years
Sang me to sleep

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I always had the fan set to 'high'.

I started hearing a high pitched sound last week and decided to... you know. It will be exactly 4 years since we met next month

It should be noted that newegg's psu recommender recommended 493w recommends my system a 4

Pros: I have now purchased two of this excellent psu for building new comps. It looks very professional and runs quiet. The low-med-hi-auto setting switch lets you choose the cooling/noise level you wish. Runs on auto setting fine for me.

Cons: None I have found.

Other Thoughts: I will buy more of these in the future.

Pros: Worked as intended

Cons: Only worked as intended for a few months

Other Thoughts: This was the first and last CoolMax PS I will buy.

Manufacturer Response:

Hello,

This unit comes with 1 year warranty from invoice date.
Please contact 2support@coolmaxusa.com for further RMA support.

Regards,

CoolMax Support

Pros: Great design, solid. Good weight to it. Delivers steady power and actually improved my system's stability.

Highly recommended product.

Cons: When the fan is on full speed, the bearings seem to vibrate. It can be annoying. A workaround would be to use the medium or low settings.

On my system, low didn't seem to cool enough.

Pros: Clean power that's well within voltage safety ranges, long cables, almost silent operation on low speed, and if I crank it up to high it vents my case amazingly well...
Also it looks slick

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I don't trust the 'auto' setting on it's lil switch knob. No actual problems, but it just seems like more that could go wrong.
I've got one of these in my 'server' system, and I drop one in pretty much every customer box I build. 100% satisfaction on PSU.

Pros: Great product works for a 8800GT and fits in a gateway GT5662. Long cables too.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: None

Pros: it work as expected, fan control, doesn't look cheap or feel cheap,

Cons: At first, it spread this new smell. sort of like the smell of new book only a bit stronger. The smell goes away later after a week or two. I smell it while i sit on my desk.

Other Thoughts: cost me a total of $50. equilibrium price.

Pros: excellent powers supply, works hard, runs silent. big fan is a huge plus. plenty of connectors any seems to power anything you want.

Cons: none so far

Other Thoughts: was a little hard to get into my case, but has been running strong ever since i got it in there :D

Pros: Absolutely silent, powerfull, long quality cables, lots of connectors, not expensive

Cons: non so far

Other Thoughts: I bought the Coolmax to replace the original power supply for Dell Dimension E510. The original was noisy and not powerfull enough (just 305W), finally burnt. I have an impression that my mutimedia apps are running faster now - easy explainable with CPU and video/audio cards finally having a proper voltage on them.

Pros: Very nice and quiet

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: none