Hiper Type-R Modular Blue Line 580W PSU Review

MrIcee2 writes "XtremeResources today has on the test bench the Hiper Type-R Modular Blue Line 580W Power Supply Unit . Our European Senior Reviewer Grace evaluates the high end modular Power Supply Unit solution powering her Intel P4 3.73 EE, Asus P5AD2-E premium based test bench. Read along as she determines the flexibilty this unit offers in it's modular construction, and takes a look inside to see what make this unit the powerhouse that it is. "Most users underestimate the necessity of a good, reliable and high quality power supply unit. They usually do not understand that it is the driving force for the whole system and it can affect reliability and stability substantially. An inadequate power supply unit will cause instability of the system at best, it may overload and burn out attached components in the worst case scenario. Hiper (High Performance Group) recently released the Type-R modular blue line HPU-4B580 power supply unit, which is competitively priced and claims to be able to offer everyone what they want and require. Hiper was nice enough to have us take a look at the unit, so we will shortly know if it can stand up to its claims."

Comments

We tried using this power supply

[Anonymous Coward]

An employee suggested to me that we use this power supply for a few offices here as an evaluation. I was skeptical at first but he explained the benefits of using a Hiper instead of an el-cheapo supply. So I decided to let him install the PSU into 5 offices to see how the employees got on. Besides, our IT manager had been using it in his PC and it seemed to work fine, why not try it on the client PC's?

Once he'd got the handhelds up and running with the PSU we let the users try it out. It all seemed fine to start with: Hiper was a pretty good replacement for buying ccheap and nasty PSU's and the users could still do their work as normal.

Alas it did not stay that way. After a few days, I had lost count of the number of complaints received. Users could not find things they were used to (like the on and off switch) or tasks they could not perform that they previously could with registered software. The constant harrasment by the Feds became more of a day job than my own. The final straw came when one employee lost several hours work when the Hiper suddenly exploded and corrupted his software.

Needless to say, the Hiper PSU team offered no support whatsoever. I made the employee remove the Hiper from the offices and lets just say he's not with us anymore.

Re:We tried using this power supply

[Eugene]

someone need to change the mod on this... this is clearly a troll. Moderators need to read the post in full before spending your points.

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[PhunkySchtuff]

Thankyou for that slashvertisement, we now return you to your regularly scheduled program...

Waste of time.

[Colin Smith]

And after *all* that expense, a bog basic 5 year old second hand sportsbike will still wipe the floor with it. Simple physics. You keep spending on your Civic until you can get 0-60 sub 2.5 seconds.