Kingwin "Divine Power" KWI-450W PSU

Something else about the unit is that the second you pick it up you notice how light it is.  The "Devine Power" unit's chassis is aluminum construction.  Not that you need a PSU to have a good balance like a tire or a sidearm but it was pleasant to pick it up and feel how light it was.  Every little bit helps if you are trying to keep a LAN box light.  For those of you who are interested, the unit weighed in at 1.65 kg as opposed to an Enermax we had laying around which weighed 1.91 kg.  That is over half a pound difference for you Imperial types.

Popping the cover off shows a couple of fat gold sinks.  Given the fact of you have four fans blowing around these, I don't expect to have any thermal problems out of this unit.

The length of the wires from the unit case to tip of the longest power connector measured 36 inches.  This may be a bonus or a demerit depending on what kind of case you have.  The biggest most popular gripe about Enermax power supply units is that the power connector wires are WAY too long.  If you put an Enermax power supply in a midtower case or less, you are going to be cursing every inch of the four foot long power cables.  On the flip side, you tower case people (this means you Brian) will love the long line length of the Enermax and curse the rest.  Me, I don't use a case tall enough to confuse a Keebler Elf so I will always opt for shorter lines if I have the choice.  I find the 36' length of the Kingwin is just right for my purposes.

With regards to the number of usable connectors, the KWI-450W had two strands of three 4-pin Molex and a FDD connector and another strand with four 4-pin Molex connectors.

Here is a shot of the fan lit up when under power.

Performance

To make sure everything did what and how it is supposed to, we whipped out our Multi-meter to check the voltage rails first hand.

Test Bed

• EPoX 8K9A (KT400) mainboard

• ThermalRight SLK-800 with Tt SmartFan2 (wide open setting)

• AMD Thunderbird 1.0GHz @ 1.5GHz

• Winfast GeForce 3 Ti500 VGA card

• Maxtor D740X-6L 40gb ATA-133 7200RPM HDD

• Generic 52x CD-ROM

• Windows XP Pro

• Chieftec Aluminum Case

• Four Neon LED 80mm Fans

• 12 inch Cold Cathode Light

Our trusty Multi-meter shows the Kingwin well within spec which is +/-5%.  The furthest off the mark was the 12V line which only was 1.6% off.

     

Conclusion

The KWI-450W had lots of nice features.  No one item really made me want to write mother but the combination of them all really made this a very nice PSU.  The black shiny paint job over the aluminum chassis, the quad fans, the variable fan rate of the fans or the four color LED lighted one in the rear to name a few.  But the most important consideration is that it does the job.  We had the Kingwin unit under some load and didn't even get close to going out of spec.  This primarily, then all the extras, is what makes the KWI-450W an item that goes on your shopping short list.

Pros

• Black chassis

• Aluminum construction

• Quad Fans

• Exhaust Fan is a four colored LED fan.

• Variable rate fans keep noise levels down.

• 450 watts will get the job done.

Cons

• Lines may be too short for tower case owners.

• Pricing and availability unknown at time of writing.

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