Chieftec iARENA GPA GPA-450S8
 | Outdated Product Power: 450; Cooling system: active (fan); MB/CPU power supply: 24+4; Manufacturer's warranty: 2 years; |
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Chieftec iARENA GPA GPA-450S8 350 W 24+4 pin 350 W 24+4 pin 400 W 24+4 pin 400 W 24+4 pin GPA-400S 400 W 24+4 pin GPA-400S8 450 W 24+4 pin 450S 450 W 24+4 pin 450S8 450 W 24+8 (4+4) pin 500 W 24+4 pin Efficiency 72% 500 W 24+4 pin Efficiency 80% 500 W 24+8 (4+4) pin 550 W 24+8 (4+4) pin 600 W 24+8 (4+4) pin 650 W 24+8 (4+4) pin 700 W 24+8 (4+4) pin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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It worked for eight years without any complaints. I was pulling a 95 Watt old Athlone, and I saw that it was also consuming 230 Watts. Moreover, Athlone is overclocked from 3 to 3.5 GHz. Now he has retired to build on a Ryzen Z 3200G; he will live without discrete data for another 10 years. Reliable, didn't turn off for weeks. Noisy under load, it actually produces no more than 400 watts. |
Whoever says what, but the power supply for a PC plays a crucial role, and the GPA 500S8 is a good, reliable comrade. With such parameters, it would be possible to take a cheaper PSU, but believe me, when you use a PC with an SSD and this unit, you will no longer take dubious models, since the Chieftec brand itself is very reliable. And at the expense of cable lengths, as it turned out, it is necessary to clarify and check in advance so that everything fits. It works quietly, does not squeak, does not stink from it. The cables turned out to be unexpectedly short, especially for powering the processor: the cable goes into a stretch, hooking on the CPU cooling system (the space in the case for the PSU is allotted at the bottom, and the CPU on the motherboard on top)  Artem A.: use Chieftec GPA-500S8 month or more i recommend it should buy |
I didn’t see the PSU worse. When I turned it on, it sparked right away, the PC didn’t start, turned it off. Nothing works Died immediately after plugging in use Chieftec GPA-600S less than month |
The second life of an old hit
Chieftec iARENA GPA-450S8 is an updated version of the quite popular GPA-450S power supply. The main innovation was increased efficiency to 80 percent, now meeting the 80 PLUS standard.
Of the total 450 W, the Chieftec iARENA GPA-500S8 delivers 343 W of electricity through the +12 V line. At the same time, the line is divided into two virtual channels: up to 24 A for CPU and motherboard and up to 21 A for the graphics card (but not more than 33 A at the same time).
Suitable for entry to mid-range gaming PC
This means that the total power of the Chieftec iARENA GPA-500S8 is enough to power a gaming PC even with an overclocked Core i7 or Ryzen 7 processor and a mid-range graphics card. However given the presence of only one 8-pin power connector for video cards, an adapter with Molex may be required.
Quiet cooling system
The advantages of the model include a rather quiet cooling system, which only speaks under loads in the region of 300 watts. Even in this case, the noise level can be described as average. Only a relatively short processor cable (38 cm) can become an unpleasant surprise, which is why the iARENA GPA-450S8 is not very suitable for large cases or systems with a bottom PSU.