Gigabyte Odin

[Merlin]

Anyone here know anything about this new offering? I read an article about a few features it has the main one I was wondering about is the USB connection it has to allow for active monitoring of the PSU from the PSU itself. They don't seem to be too pricey but how do they com[are with say Corsair in terms of reliability?

[dicecca112]

We really don't know. I found two reviews though http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&c ... wXXxJ5jucw
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&c ... aOw4AXKTvw

Gigabyte is new, I'd like to see Jonnyguru do a review (well one of his staff, seeing he is not doing it anymore, he's working for BFG now and was asked not to do any more reviews, but I'd keep an eye on BFGs psus)

Edit found guru's

http://www.jonnyguru.com/review_details.php?id=123

so it looks like its channelwell made, which is mid road manufacturer. Back in 2003 that is what Antec used, so they're pretty good

The software is okay, its off like most, a multimeter is always your best bet. Its just a little IC that reads the voltages, ands not gonna be as spot on as a multimeter

Now if we look at the results provided by the P-Tuner software, we see a few discrepancies. If we look at all but the +12V3, we see that the amperages and voltages are a little off. This I sort of expected. I wouldn't expect a tiny IC inside a power supply to be as accurate as test equipment worth thousands of dollars. Furthermore, voltages are bound to be higher because they are being measured at the source and not at the load and the resistance of the wire is not taken into account. But the numbers are close enough for end users. If we have a look at +12V3 during test 1 through 3, we find that it's drastically off. So off that it actually has an effect on the total wattage of the power supply and makes the power supply look significantly less efficient than it actually is. By test 4, +12V3 starts to catch up to what could be considered realistic numbers, and I was starting to think that there was a connection problem that had "fixed itself" and shouldn't rear it's head again. But, as you'll see during the hot box tests, the problem seems to be fairly consistent.

Personally its a little overprices for the 550W version, I'd still stick with the Corsair