Apevia SPIRIT600W Spirit 600W ATX Power Supply with Auto-Thermally Controlled 120mm Fan, 115/230V Switch, All Protections

The media could not be loaded. Bottomline up front: A quality unit from a known brand name that offers a really hard to beat watt-per-dollar value.Got this budget friendly PSU to replace the stock 300W psu in my Acer TC885 home PC in order to power a GPU upgrade, specifically a GTX 1060. The stock PSU did not have an 8 pin power connector, and I wasn't looking to spend a whole lot on upgrades. I've used Apevia in the past and have been happy with them, and so when I saw this and the price was right with overall good ratings, I decided to give it a go.The PSU arrived very quickly. The PSU is a simple black cased unit with a 120mm cooling fan and black fan grill, not the gawdy chrome kind. Per Apevia, the cooling is auto thermally controlled and has built in protections. The package had minimal contents...a double sided 1-page info/install sheet, a small bag of 4 knob style screws, a power cable to plug the PSU into the wall, and the PSU/cables itself, in a bubble wrap bag. I attached an unboxing video so you can see exactly what came in the box.Although the case is quite ordinary looking, it looked and "felt" to be well built. Holding the PSU, it does have some decent weight to it, and looking inside the grate and grills, you can see the components within, which all looked (and smelled) new. (I know, I know...a visual and smell test is not an objective or scientific means to test quality LOL!!!) All in all, it looked like a quality, if not cosmetically boring unit.The PSU fit in my Acer TC885 without any issue, and everything plugged up nicely. It's also very nice that the cables are all sleeved...something that more expensive units don't offer. I only needed a few of the plugs, so once all those were plugged in, I just used a velcro strap to re-bundle the rest of the unused cables and tucked them as nicely as possible inside the PC. Since it's a non-modular unit, you're unfortunately stuck with having excess cables to have to figure out how to store/tuck away in your build.Anyway, the PSU fired up with the PC without any issue. After running my PC for a while and doing a few tests to purposely draw power (benchmarking, graphic/CPU intense gaming, etc), the PSU is running smoothly. I've been running this PSU on my PC, used daily for everyday computing and some light gaming, for over a week now without any issues. So far, so good!At 600W, it's a bit overkill for my PC (i3-9100, 16GB RAM, and now a GTX 1060 GPU), but it's hard to beat the price value this unit offers, as 500W units were actually selling for more!! The only "strikes" I can think of are (1) no 80+ rating and (2) it's not on the A through C PSU tier list. But with regards to the PSU tier list, at least it's not one that's listed on the "avoid" or "replace immediately" tiers!Overall, initial impressions are: this is a quality, solidly built unit from a known brand name that is easy on your wallet. Should anything change, I'll post an update.

Great little power supply for the money. After the original power supply in a customer's PC was damaged by a power surge, I replaced it with one of these units and had my customer "up & running again" in less than an hour. Would definitely use (and recommend!) this unit again!

Works well in my retro pc build for the price

Good power supply at a bargain price. I've used 3 of these and they do the job, and have enough for a decent GPU like the RTX 3060 Ti. However as shown in the picture this power supply creates a great deal of RFI on the HF band, especially around 18Mhz. If you're a shortwave listener or ham radio operator, you might want to choose another power supply.

I'm building a pc for my little brother so I got this for his system cause I thought I could save some money and it had good reviews. Well I put this sucker in the system, tried booting it up and first thing I noticed was no signal was being sent to the monitor. Didn't think anything of it cause sometimes it can take a minute or two for a new pc to boot up, so I decided to go into the kitchen while it tried to boot up but as soon as I turned around that bad boi popped like a balloon. Ran over to the system, everything was shut off and it smelled like my left nut. Luckily I have my own personal pc so I was able to connect my own power supply to the system to test that the parts were working and it booted up fine. But some people aren't so lucky and would probably be left thinking their pc is dead. It would have deserved 0 stars but since it was atleast decent enough to have safety measures in place to save the pc components I give it 1 star.

So far so good. Will update just in case things change.

This is great for budget builds

While it works its good...purchased not one but 2. First one lasted 6 months purchased in June 2023....I should have learned my lesson and purchased another one in January of 2024 that one just died today 3/24. Fire hazard to be sure...can smell the plastic and saw it arching!!!On a positive note, the vendor honored their warranty and quickly sent me a replacement thank you!