Gigabyte UD1000GM Power Supply Review

How Much Does it Cost?

In terms of price, at the time of writing, we were unable to find many reliable retail sources to confirm how much we can expect the Gigabyte UD1000GM to cost. This is not, however, an entirely surprising factor given how new the Gigabyte UD1000GM, and, by proxy, that it may only just be arriving with mainstream retail partners.

Based on the online indications we could find, however, it would appear that this PSU will cost something in the region of £130. Not a bad price at all for an 80-Plus Gold 1000W power supply!

Performance

The results provided in all of our testings show that the Gigabyte UD1000GM is an exceptionally solid power supply. Admittedly, no, there were not any particular results that made us jump up from our seats and say ‘wow’. At the same though, I think this is kind of the point of the UD1000GM. It has been designed with ultra durability as a key product focus. And, as often is the case in these instances, keeping things simple, and removing any potential points of failure, does generally provide good, but from some views potentially unremarkable results.

Then again, I think Gigabyte has recently had enough excitement from their PSUs to last them a while!

Practicality & Functionality

Practicality and functionality really do tend to sum up the Gigabyte UD1000GM. With its 80-Plus Gold efficiency rating (a very decent one as shown in our testing too) this certainly hits one key remit of quality power supply design. With its fully modular cable design too, this clearly offers a lot of practicality in terms of cable management when installed within systems.

A key added factor, however, is undoubtedly in the inclusion of a PCIe Gen 5 power connector. For those of you considering making the upgrade to either the AMD Radeon 7000 or Nvidia GeForce RTX 4000 series of graphics cards, this will prove undoubtedly useful!

Should I Buy One?

Edit – No you should not. Pending the original publication of this review, extended use found that the UD1000GM developed a very notable noise within what we presume to be the fan. More specifically (and likely) it’s bearings. – Attempts to contact Gigabyte about this issue have predominantly been met with indifference, and, overall, it seems we were well justified to raise the point of this third-party fan utilised within the UD1000GM as being, well… clearly a pretty lousy thing to go cheap on!

No, sorry folks, there’s no redemption arc for Gigabyte here. Just another decent product let down by a completely avoidable issue!