New Antec "Truepower New" 750w PSU now fitted, so what's it like?
Being ATX it was as completely plug and play as I hoped for, but it is also in a difference league to the HEC. In this case at least it was certainly therefore a matter of "you get what you pay for".
- Visually higher grade cabling
- A circuit board that actually looks like it has been designed rather than cobbled together by a five year old
- Discrete SATA and Molex runs from separate supplies rather than daisy chaining the former off the latter with splitters and short converter cables on the HEC. Whilst this obviously worked, it is noddy and against the purist in me
- The presence of net cable sheaths to protect and group each run
- Molex connectors of a high density plastic rather than something one grade up from a polythene bag
- A 24pin ATX connector that sleeved in to its mate with a nice tactile feel and positive "click" rather than wiggle-wiggle-I-think-it's-connected
- Near silent fan operation
- Oodles of expansion (both in terms of 750w rated oomph that I actually believe vs 550w that I'm not convinced about and with three spare 12v rails for which cables to connect to just about any component going have been supplied)
- It just looks and feels classy and I can well believe all the high quality tech attributes explained in the review I linked to
Happy camper, and yes, a case of PSU failure was correctly diagnosed!