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Huntkey Green Star 450 W Power Supply Review

Huntkey is a brand that isn’t known by the North-American audience but it is somewhat popular in other countries, due to the low cost of its products. Huntkey manufactures some power supplies for other brands sold in the US, in particular BestBuy-owned Dynex and Rocketfish. We completely dissected their Green Star 450 W (LW-6450SG) model and tested to see if it can really deliver its labeled power. Read on.
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Re: Huntkey Green Star 450 W Power Supply Review

sounds like good from the review.i try to choose a cheaper psu ,maybe huntkey is a good choose
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Re: Huntkey Green Star 450 W Power Supply Review

Did you read the whole review?

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Even though we knew that when the switching transistors burn the problem is with the overall power (which is higher than the maximum supported by the power supply) and not with any of the individual power supply outputs being overloaded (because when this happens the secondary rectifiers are the components that burn) we decided to re-test this power supply respecting its maximum limits printed on the product box. To do that we bought a new power supply and reconfigured our load test to use test number six as the test for maximum load for this power supply. The result was what we expected: our second power supply exploded just like the first one since, like we explained, the problem wasn’t on the power configuration of the outputs but with the power supply maximum overall power. This time we taped the test and we will talk more about it below. ...
I wouldn't even put that PSU in my mother-in-law's computer
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Re: Huntkey Green Star 450 W Power Supply Review

Sounds good? - If they had labelled it as a 350W, then it would be - as a 450W, it's a bomb.

Incapable of delivering rated power, possibly good for about 80%, and remarkably efficient (though without PFC, the power factor will be brutal) at under 60%.

See the related review of "how much power can a generic 500W deliver" for a real shocker, some of these are simply not fit for purpose.
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Sounds good? - If they had labelled it as a 350W, then it would be - as a 450W, it's a bomb. ...
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