XPG Core Reactor II VE 850W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply Review

A Closer Look – Interior

The fan in a Hong Hua HA1225H12F-Z, a 120mm model with a fluid dynamic bearing design.

XPG has the latest CWT CSE platform for their latest PSU design, a good choice, as it uses high-quality components and is a well-proven platform to build upon.

Throughout the PSU, you can see that they’ve used the great capacitors from Nichicon and Nippon Chemi-Con, which should ensure great power delivery, durability and performance.

The main bulk capacitor is the Nippon Chemi-Con which is rated at 450w and 850uF up to 105c, which is likely more than overkill for what is required in an 850W PSU unit, but hey, that’s no bad thing!

There are good-quality heatsinks on all the major components too, with a few daughter boards used throughout, ensuring all the hardware gets ample airflow.

Interestingly, there’s a layer of shielding here separating a coil on one side from the main transformer, now, that doesn’t seem like a bad thing, but honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a component separate like this in any of my previous reviews, and it must be to help reduce any interference from the AC-line in filtering stage.