XFX XTS 520W Passive Modular Power Supply Review

news · July 28, 2014

For PC users who are serious about noise there really is no

alternative to a passive power supply. Sure there are power supplies

on the market that operate incredibly quietly (such as Be Quiet's Dark

Power Pro range) and even power supplies that don't spin up their fans

until they pass a certain load amount, normally 40% load (Corsair's

AXi range for example). However, a fan is still a fan whichever way

you butter it up and a fan means some noise irrelevant of how

quietÃ‚Â that fan is.

Enter XFX's latest passive range of power supplies dubbed the XTS

series. Today we are checking out the XFX XTS 520 which is a totally

silent, passively cooled 520W power supply with a fully modular

design, 80 Plus Platinum certification and a 5 year warranty. This

really is the bees knees of power supplies and while 520W may not

sound like much, that's easily enough to power a Core i7 4960XÃ‚Â system

with a GTX Titan Black and a tonne of hard drives or SSDs, lots of

memory and a full sized ATX board. With that said the XFX XTS 520 is a

power supply that is versatile enough for any system from a low-end

workstation to a high-end gaming PC: you can even run SLI or CrossFire

with this power supply.

As with all XFX power supplies the XTS 520 is based on a Seasonic OEM

design: this means it is going to be a quality piece because Seasonic

areÃ‚Â one of the top vendors in the entire power supply industry. Let's

start this review by taking a look at the packaging of XFX's XTS 520.

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