Kingwin Absolute Power 600w PSU

Manufacturer: Kingwin Inc.
Supplied by: Kingwin Inc.
Street Price: $120

by Dean Barker (2/01/2006)

Introduction

Kingwin's newest power supply has pulled out all the stops to bring features, form and function to market in a big way.  Wrapping a power supply in multiple acrylic windows with LED cooling fans will turn a few heads.  Adding in modular sleeved lines complete with SATA and PCI-E connectors with turn a few more.  While making the PSU's output a whopping 600 watts pretty much seals the deal.  Did we mention that all this has a street price of $120?  The folks at Kingwin have given us an opportunity to take a look at their newest power supply, the Kingwin Absolute Power that looks to have it all.  Let's look closer to see if its beauty is skin deep or through and through.

Specifications

• Power: ATX 600 watts

• Dimensions: 160 x 150 x 85mm

• Weight: 2.7 kg

• Construction: Steel / Nickel Plating

• Fan(s): Blue LED 80mm rear and Blue LED 60mm front cooling fan

• Over voltage protection: +5V output is between 5.7V to 6.5V/+12V output is between 13.2V to 14.4V/+3.3V output is between 3.7V to 4.1V

• Under voltage protection: +5V output is between 3.3V to 3.7V/+12V output is between 8.5V to 9.5V/+3.3V output is between 2.0V to 2.4V

• Overpower protection: 105%~150%

• Features: SATA x 2; PCI-E x 2; 4-Pin Molex x 9; FDD connectors x 2

• All cables sleeved with EZ-Grip Molex connectors

What you get

With a street price of $120, the Kingwin Absolute Power unit is all business.  Opening up the box we discovered the Power Supply, modular lines, power cord and instruction manual.  Some PSUs come with extra fans and rheostats and any number of other fluff items.  Kingwin in making the choice to keep their unit stripped of extras is able to keep the end cost low which makes us Joe Users happy.

The unit

The unit itself is nickel plated with its plating having a mirror finish.  Below, we have a look at the rear of the unit and the 60mm blue LED cooling fan and power line connectors.  At first glance, I thought a 60mm intake cooling fan may be a bit small but as you'll see in a the next group of pictures, the air is channeled in such a way as to increase the efficiency of the air exchange and subsequently the value of the smaller 60mm fan.  In regards to the power connector points; the six modular connectors you see below are labeled and pretty self explanatory.  Oh the joys of modular lines; plug in what you need and leave the clutter you don't out.

  

Aside from gobs of power, Kingwin has added in a triple window design to the Absolute Power's casing.  These three windows are tinted blue with the bottom most having Kingwin's logo tastefully engraved in the acrylic plate.  Beneath the bottom acrylic plate, notice how both the intake and exhaust fans draw and expel air in such a way that it pulls down the length of the unit's two internal heatsinks.  Both fans are run off an internal thermal sensor that controls their speed.  At no time during testing did the fans become more annoying and were actually barely audible.

     

Here are a few shots showing the rear exhaust area with its 80mm blue LED fan and its top cover.  The top cover has a spec sticker of sorts identifying the unit and its direct current output.  The smaller sticker just below this is a graph showing the fan's speed to temperature ratio.  Minimum speed being 1000 RPM at 0 degrees Celsius increasing to a max of 2000 RPM at 70 degrees Celsius.

  

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