Super Flower Golden Silent 500W Supply Review

Ryan Martin / 10 years ago

Final Thoughts

Pricing

Super Flower’s Golden Silent 500W fanless power supply can be bought from Overclockers UK for £89.99, and for a limited time only that also includes a free copy of the PC game Watch Dogs. This power supply comes with a 5 year warranty. In the UK Super Flower products are exclusively sold by Overclockers and cannot be found anywhere else. EU customers can buy Super Flower products at the Overclockers UK parent company Caseking.

Conclusion

Having never worked with a Super Flower product before this review was certainly very interesting for me. I’ve only ever heard good things about Super Flower power supplies and on this performance I think it is easy to see why. The Super Flower Golden Silent 500W performs excellent across the board and offers up top notch efficiency, good PFC and total silence as well as excellent ripple suppression and strong voltage regulation on all the major rails. Best of all it comes in at a price of just £90, similar wattage passive power supplies from other brands start at £100. I also think the universal modular connector is a novel idea, although I would have liked to have seen a fully modular unit, even if it meant a slightly more expensive retail price. The final point worth noting is that while most passive power supplies use a well ventilated chassis for cooling, this makes use of ventilation and a heatsink built into the power supply chassis – a very smart and innovative idea. All these innovative ideas culminate in the 5 year warranty that Super Flower offer which shows you that they stand behind the quality of the product, and it is easy to see that when they are so transparent that they detail the internal components used on the product’s packaging.

Pros

Excellent efficiency
Top-draw voltage regulation
Silent
High quality components
Innovative universal connectors
Integrated heatsink/chassis
Priced better than rivals
5 year warranty

Cons

Hard-wired cables are unappealing/ not fully modular

“Very rarely do I see a product executed with such innovation but Super Flower’s Golden Silent 500W passive power supply has surprised me with its unique integrated heatsink chassis and universal modular cable connector system. Best of all is the fact this power supply is cheaper than rival solutions and yet performs just as good. Super Flower are a brand to keep a close eye on, they are going places!”