Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 750w Power Supply Review

How Much Does It Cost?

Retailing for a price in the region of £99, the Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 sits around what you might call the ‘mid-section’ of gold-rated power supplies of this wattage output. At that point, however, the comparison should end.

With its excellent performance, top quality design and, quite frankly, colossal 10-year warranty, this is head and shoulders above most (if not all) of its competition. Don’t forget as well, although this is rated to gold-efficiency, its oh so close to Platinum. In that regard, trust me, if it was rated at that level Thermaltake could easily slap another £40 on that price tag and nobody would bat an eye.

For a price under £100, I couldn’t think of a better power supply to buy off the top of my head. That pretty much says it all.

Performance

As you could see throughout our tests, the Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 never skipped a beat. In every test, it gave excellent results. It speaks volume of just how much time and effort Thermaltake has put into making the ‘Toughpower’ name one of the best in the PSU market.

In terms of performance, it’s genuinely faultless.

Practicality & Functionality

Would I use this power supply in my system? Absolutely. Not only does it perform excellently, but it comes with a design so strong and reassuring that if I did use this in my PC tomorrow, I suspect that I’d still be using in 2-3 systems down the road.

The only criticism I could possibly make of this power supply in terms of practicality is the cable length. It’s not that they’re necessarily too short, but they’re definitely on the edge of practicality. If they were just 10cm-20cm longer, I wouldn’t have a problem at all here.

Should I Buy One?

In summarising the Thermaltake Toughpower GF1, I appreciate that I am definitely running the risk of waxing lyrical over this. The truth of the matter, however, is that this is an amazing power supply. Not only did it give excellent results in our tests, but everything I saw internally suggested that this has a bullet-proof design. One that should last any purchaser many, many, years of use.

It’s not perfect, as I noted above, I think the cable lengths will be a problem to people with more elaborate set-ups and larger system cases, but in terms of everything else, it’s quite literally faultless.