The PSU:

The Magnum has an all aluminium chassis that is very attractive.

Here you see the modular connectors on the Magnum; the red LED’s on the left are the voltage activity lights.

Here’s a shot from the rear of the Magnum, that black shiny plate in the middle is the LCD display where you can read temperatures, voltage and total power consumption. To the right you see part of the unusual cooling system of the Magnum. Let’s open it up and investigate further.

Upon opening I was stunned with the amount of copper used to cool the Magnum, you can see that MGE has chosen to use heat pipes to cool the Power supply. This looks really promising, heat pipes mean silent operations and we all love that.

In some environments heat pipes alone may not be enough, so as you see below MGE have added a low noise 80mm fan that kicks in when the temperatures heat up.

Installation:

Installing the Magnum inside the Antec P180 case wasn’t entirely trouble free; I had to remove the original 120/38mm fan and bracket from the lower compartment and replace it with a regular 120/25mm fan. A note to you who are buying this rather large power supply, make sure that you have enough room in your case before ordering one or you may run into some difficulties.

Here is a picture of the back LCD display on the Magnum, where you can see temperature, current watt consumption and the 12V rail. A pretty cool feature if you ask me; but the display has a pretty bad viewing angle, it was very hard to get a reading of it unless you look at it directly from the centre.

 

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