[jtroutma]

Here is my expreience with Enermax.

Bought the 550W unit about a year ago, worked fine with my old setup (Abit KG7, XP1800+, 5 SCSI HDDS, etc). Had not a single problem with it.

Then I went to the Epox 8RDA+. Things went down hill from there. System was not stable at anything above 180FSB, the voltages sucked (4.72V for the 5V line and 12.48V for the 12V line), and just overall problems. Swapped it out for an Antec TRUE550W, and half my problem went away and my voltages went back up to normal. After a few more tweaks with my system (swapping RAM around & reimage my Boot drive), my system is very stable now. I am even stress testing my system for 215FSB right now.

Cant say that it was all the Enermax fault becuase I was drawing a large load on my 5V line and not as much on my 12V line. However, I must say that I am happy with the True550W.

One thing that I will gripe about the Enermax, the damn molex power connectors for HDDs kept comming out of the moldings!!! It really pi$$ed me off when I would just finish puting the system back together and find that half my HDDs would not detect because the +12V or -5V line pin would fall out the back of the connectors. Who knows how many times I have fixed those things just to have them fall out again.