Date: August 18th, 2002
Article by: Nathan Glentworth (Head Editor & Hardware Reviewer)
Product was donated by: Big008.com
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ENERMAX MANUFACTURER PROFILE

Enermax Technology Corporation was founded in 1989 by a group of young professional, enthusiastic, and high-tech oriented people in Taiwan. The Enermax founders left high-profile positions from prestigious computer firms, bringing over 10 years of professional experiences to our own firm. The main products we carry are switching power supplies, PC cases, industrial PC cases, pedestal and tower server cases, CPU coolers, second fans, mobile racks and other peripherals. Enermax has its own design groups and production line. For convenience and better service to our customers worldwide, Enermax has established branch offices with warehouses at Hamburg in Germany, Los Angeles and Fremont in the United States, Saitama in Japan and Hong Kong in Mainland China, Paris in France. Enermax is always looking for the latest cutting edge technology to offer our clients. Enermax's own designing engineers work around the clock to come up with the best solution and product to meet the demand of the market. Now, Enermax is engaged in developing more powerful types of products to serve customers in the future. To provide efficient coordination, after sales services and technical support to customers is our primary purpose.

BIG008.COM ONLINE STORE PROFILE

Big008.com has been a well known online retailer of quality computer components for at least a couple of years now. One defined characteristic of this online company is it's selection of Lian-li cases (Even the hard to find ones). I had a glance at their profile and record on resellerratings.com , and was really impressed at their record and you can have a peek for yourself HERE . If you are in the market for a computer case or power supply, especially a Lian-li, make this one of your first stops, the service and selection are great!

PRODUCT INTRODUCTION

One the the foundation blocks of a fast, efficient and problem free computer system has to be the power supply. Most instability problems with stock or even overclocking ventures taken place at a workstation can more than often be boiled down to an inferior power supply with improper current flows on its certain voltage rails. Seeing that I do help people out on the internet with their computer problems, it irritates me to hear some man/woman complaining that they just bought a new top of the line computer that they built and researched themselves only to skimp out on the power supply which is dependent by every single damn component in the system. Figure this, would you built an amazing hot-rod and install K-mart(r) economy tires, I don't think so. To counteract this instability dilemma, Big008.com was kind enough to donate a sample of the Enermax 350watt Manual Fan Controlled Power Supply to introduce me to this cadillac line of power supplies.

PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS

What does this power supply have to offer, well look no further..

-Meet AMD K7 and Intel ATX +12V 1.1 and ATX 2.03 version (Pentium 4 fully support)
-Ultra cooling design: one 9 cm fan intake heat and one 8 cm fan exhaust heat---AMD recommended version
-FCA function (Fan On/ Off Controlled by M/B & Adjustable), "sleeping mode" power supply
-FM (Fan Speed Monitoring) Function
-+5Vsb output current 2.2A output
-9cm Manual Control Fan
-Low Noise & High MTBF
-Total Output Power: 350W
-Dimension: W150 x H86 x D140 (mm)

PRODUCT COMPOSITION & FEATURES

With the purchase of a power supply, what do I get?

The manual, the actual power cable (you won't believe how many power supplies do not come with them), a case badge, and a 3pin to 4pin molex convertor for hooking up the main power supply fan to the main power instead of it being monitored by the motherboard monitoring software.

Shed the bubble wrap (snap, snap, mmmm), and you are introduced to a rather attractive blue unit, with gold fan grills, and a seemingly endless barrage of power connectors for any occasion.

And enermax doesn't skimp out at all on the length of the power cables and supports those new full-tower cases which need long lengths to reach from the top of the case to the bottom.

The first photo is the mainboard power connector for the large sidefan. Connecting it via the motherboard will allow you to monitor the fan speed of the fan and allow you to modify its speed to your desire.