Introduction & Packaging
Super Flower may not be the first name you think of when you think of power supplies, but time and time again they’ve proven they can make some of the best-performing power supplies on the market, but not only that, they also create some of the best looking PSUs, all while maintaining competitive prices. With all that in mind, I’m very excited to see their latest unit, the Leadex Platinum 550W, in the eTeknix office today.
As the name would suggest, this is an 80 Plus Platinum rated unit, that means that the unit won’t be wasting as much of your electricity, or the money you spend on your electricity build, before it gets to your system, saving you a little extra money over the time you use it; certainly no bad thing being a little more economical and green.
Equipped with a fully modular design, all the latest safety features you would expect, high levels of efficiency, a premium quality semi-passive 135mm fan cooling design, and rather uniquely, a set of LED lights in the cable connectors, adding a little extra flair to your system build.
Features
- 100% Full Modular Cabling Design For Easy Cable Management
- 80 PLUS ® Platinum Certified, 90% 92% 89% Efficiency At 20% 50% 100% Rated Load
- Full Range Auto Voltage Detection Design 100V~240V (Active PFC)
- Comply With ATX 12V. V2.2, EPS 12V. V2.91 & SSI EPS 12V. V2.92 Specification
- Comply With Energy Star Standard & EuP (Energy Using Products) Regulation
- Over Voltage Protection / Over Current Protection / Over Power Protection / Short Circuit Protection / Under Voltage Protection / Over Temperature
- Protection
- Support All Intel/AMD Multi-Core CPU & ATX/BTX Compatible Motherboards
- Support NVIDIA® SLI™ & ATI CrossFireX™ High Performance Graphic Card
- Patented Easy To Use & Install Crystal Clear Cube Connectors with LED
- More than 2,000 times On/Off test
- Unleaded Green Materials with RoHS/WEEE Compliance
- Perfect For Professional & High Performance Gaming System
Specification
- Dimensions: 150 x 86 x 165 mm (W x H x D)
- Wattage: 550W
- Fan: 135 mm DBB(automatic control, semi-passive)
- Colour: Black (power supply, fan)
- Fully Modular Design
- Efficiency: max. 92% (115V), 80 Plus Platinum certificate
- Active PFC
- Safety: cTUVus/TUV/CB/CE/FCC/C-Tick/BSMI/RoHS/CCC
- Partcode: SF-550F14MP black (UK)
Connectors
- 1 x 20+4-Pin ATX12V/EPS12V
- 1 x 4+4-Pin ATX12V/EPS12V
- 3 x 6+2-Pin-PCIe
- 7 x SATA
- 4 x 4-Pin-Molex
- Warranty: 5yr
The packaging is quite understated, giving us a stylish logo and the main spec, but nothing to indicate the design of the PSU.
Around the back, a few close up pictures of the various components, as well as a lot of technical information, such as the Japanese capacitors and the fully modular cabling design.
There’s not exactly a lot of extras in the box, just a few thumb screws and the owner’s manual, but you really don’t need much more anyway.
The cables come neatly packed away in a protective case, which is great for those who don’t need all the cables right now, but you may in the future when you upgrade and they’ll be neatly stored away.
Finally, you’ll also find the mains cable, which is nice and thick, making it durable, and comes with a good length.
Couple of confirmations of things we can read in this test, plus one small issue found:
• Bulletproof build without the doubt – every detail of PSU case has been made neatly, using proper solid materials.
• Full set of aesthetic cables, easy to manage them as I wish, long enough
for most of cases – connectors are pretty solid on both sides.Full set of aesthetic cables, easy to manage them as I wish, long enough
for most of cases – connectors are pretty solid on both sides. Cables finishings are in finest quality, once connected they stays secure & tight in the sockets. Bag for unnecessary cables is an nice add-on too;
• Stability – the voltages are really like frozen: idle, moderate load under full load, or quick changing load – doesn’t matter, still great stability;
• Stone cold – now will be something quite interesting: I’ve got this unit in NZXT Noctis 450 PC Case, inside of integrated shroud. The fan is set in “ECO” (hybrid semi-passive mode), fan hole is located on top (I didn’t fit it up side down by purpose), where is only 2-3mm distance to the top of the shroud. Could say the heat must be generated inside, resulting that fan will by running very often. Nothing like that… To be honest it didn’t run even once yet. It is stone cold. The lowest case fan (with very reduced speed), located at the front of PC case surely makes the air moving towards PSU a bit – and this is the only ventilation there. Really the fan in this Power Supply is just like additional bonus – been given, but we never needed to use;
• The only small issue is SATA supply cable. As most of the PC cases are
now designed with PSU located at bottom I found this cable is designed
other way round – like for PSU’s located at top of the case. That means
if you connecting two or more drives (I have three HDD’s currently)
firstly the lowest Drive needs to be connected using farthest plug we have on the lead, than next one above etc.
After connect the last top one, rest of the cable needs to go back down to PSU –
makes this area unnecessary busier than we need, which tat is only thing to consider if we have smaller / very low budget PC case.
Generally – it is really silly to compromise own choice buying cheapest PSU. And now it is a lot easier to make right decision – we can reach for not very expensive Hi-End Power Supply in the price of Mid-Class. Cannot choose better…
You should choke to die with your scam… Idiot with no life…