Crmaris, pretty much the guys who is making most of the PSU reviews lately on many sites like Tomshardware, provided a good review on Hardwarebuster. You can find the screenshot there of the latest chart of the ATX 3.0 offering. Overall, the FSP Hydro is not a great PSU at all. I made a good summary and on a post, and so far it seems that Be Quiet Dark Power 13 will be the only obvious choice.
Anyway, the offering is sad if you are looking for an ATX 3.0 PSU.
FSP Hydro is the worst of the ATX 3.0 offering so far MSI ai1300p is overpriced like hell Thermaltake GF3 is noisy like a turbo jet Silverstone Hela 1200R is also noisy and only offering 5 years of warranty Seasonic Vertex is between a Focus and a Prime Be Quiet Dark Power 13 only offer up to 1000W
Just so you know, the image you linked displays an image that says, "Stop, this image was hot-linked," instead of whatever chart you intended. Once again, websites break peoples' attempts at educating others.
This offering seems pretty squarely aimed at mainstream ATX 3.0 given the design and where it falls short. Everything I've seen on the market so far seems to cost a fair bit more (at regular prices at least) in the 1000W category with ATX 3.0.
This dude making stupid claims, implying the PSU are "Worst" out of all psu in existence, pretending like this PSU unusable, even cramaris says This PSU are good enough not "OMG UNUSABLE" like your comment implying.
@Anandtech: I've noticed this in every article now, but always thought it was something on my end. When scrolling through the articles, every once in a while, all of the text will become bold. It makes it nearly unreadable. Sometimes scrolling back up fixes it, sometimes a refresh, sometimes highlighting some text also brings it back to normal. The reason I know it is NOT me, is because before this was occurring on Chrome on my old computer; and now it is happening in Edge on a *brand new* computer.
Give them the version number of your Edge browser and MS windows installation. They'll need that to try and reproduce the problem. Likewise with your Chrome install if you still have that.
Thanks for the heads up, gang. I personally run Firefox and Safari as my daily drivers, so I'm not always seeing browser-specific issues.
For those of you experiencing issues, could you please email me with more details on the browser you're using, screenshots, whether you're running any extensions, etc? I'd like to be able to replicate this so that we can properly hammer out a solution.
I too have had this happen randomly, but only on my desktop PC (also using Chrome). It has never happened on my tablet or phone which is where I usually read AT.
This PSU appears to fit into the category of "good enough" for OEMs and average consumers based on it's performance and price point. Since it seems to be "out of stock" most of the time they are probably just offering excess production to consumers as they achieve a higher profit margin by doing so.
Depending on your needs this might be a suitable choice if you can actually buy it. It might be useful to compare costs of some of the high end PSUs along with warranty as they can typically offer better performance over a longer warranty period. Either way a quality PSU can pay dividends if you need reliability and PC performance because component life can last longer with better power quality.
FSB continues to make solid power supplies for the price point. I have long used them in medium-end builds for others because they are reliable and not overpriced, though I use Seasonic in my own builds (without much apparent benefit).
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eva02langley - Thursday, January 19, 2023 - link
Crmaris, pretty much the guys who is making most of the PSU reviews lately on many sites like Tomshardware, provided a good review on Hardwarebuster. You can find the screenshot there of the latest chart of the ATX 3.0 offering. Overall, the FSP Hydro is not a great PSU at all. I made a good summary and on a post, and so far it seems that Be Quiet Dark Power 13 will be the only obvious choice.Anyway, the offering is sad if you are looking for an ATX 3.0 PSU.
FSP Hydro is the worst of the ATX 3.0 offering so far
MSI ai1300p is overpriced like hell
Thermaltake GF3 is noisy like a turbo jet
Silverstone Hela 1200R is also noisy and only offering 5 years of warranty
Seasonic Vertex is between a Focus and a Prime
Be Quiet Dark Power 13 only offer up to 1000W
https://hwbusters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/p...
https://hwbusters.com/psus/fsp-hydro-g-pro-1000w-a...
ballsystemlord - Thursday, January 19, 2023 - link
Just so you know, the image you linked displays an image that says, "Stop, this image was hot-linked," instead of whatever chart you intended. Once again, websites break peoples' attempts at educating others.eva02langley - Thursday, January 19, 2023 - link
Just go on Hardwarebuster and compare the latest ATX 3.0 chart from the Siverstone Hela 1200R review at the bottom of the page. The FSP PSU is last.https://hwbusters.com/psus/silverstone-hela-1200r-...
ballsystemlord - Thursday, January 19, 2023 - link
97.16% isn't so far from 100% that I'd call something "the worst." If it meets the AXT 3.0 spec, and it does, then I'd say it's a valid offering.DanNeely - Thursday, January 19, 2023 - link
Agreed. Also the 100% score is for a platinum model; and you'd expect those to score slightly higher than more affordable gold models.thestryker - Thursday, January 19, 2023 - link
This offering seems pretty squarely aimed at mainstream ATX 3.0 given the design and where it falls short. Everything I've seen on the market so far seems to cost a fair bit more (at regular prices at least) in the 1000W category with ATX 3.0.MrMuunster - Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - link
This dude making stupid claims, implying the PSU are "Worst" out of all psu in existence, pretending like this PSU unusable, even cramaris says This PSU are good enough not "OMG UNUSABLE" like your comment implying.NextGen_Gamer - Thursday, January 19, 2023 - link
@Anandtech: I've noticed this in every article now, but always thought it was something on my end. When scrolling through the articles, every once in a while, all of the text will become bold. It makes it nearly unreadable. Sometimes scrolling back up fixes it, sometimes a refresh, sometimes highlighting some text also brings it back to normal. The reason I know it is NOT me, is because before this was occurring on Chrome on my old computer; and now it is happening in Edge on a *brand new* computer.ballsystemlord - Thursday, January 19, 2023 - link
Give them the version number of your Edge browser and MS windows installation. They'll need that to try and reproduce the problem. Likewise with your Chrome install if you still have that.NextGen_Gamer - Thursday, January 19, 2023 - link
It was Windows 10 2H22, and now Windows 11 2H22. Every Chrome and Edge version from 104 or so onwards.Samus - Friday, January 20, 2023 - link
I have the same problem on two computers with totally different hardware. Only in Chrome and Edge.Slash3 - Monday, January 23, 2023 - link
Same for me, on desktop Opera (Chromium based).Ryan Smith - Monday, January 23, 2023 - link
Thanks for the heads up, gang. I personally run Firefox and Safari as my daily drivers, so I'm not always seeing browser-specific issues.For those of you experiencing issues, could you please email me with more details on the browser you're using, screenshots, whether you're running any extensions, etc? I'd like to be able to replicate this so that we can properly hammer out a solution.
thestryker - Thursday, January 19, 2023 - link
I too have had this happen randomly, but only on my desktop PC (also using Chrome). It has never happened on my tablet or phone which is where I usually read AT.Techie2 - Thursday, January 19, 2023 - link
This PSU appears to fit into the category of "good enough" for OEMs and average consumers based on it's performance and price point. Since it seems to be "out of stock" most of the time they are probably just offering excess production to consumers as they achieve a higher profit margin by doing so.Depending on your needs this might be a suitable choice if you can actually buy it. It might be useful to compare costs of some of the high end PSUs along with warranty as they can typically offer better performance over a longer warranty period. Either way a quality PSU can pay dividends if you need reliability and PC performance because component life can last longer with better power quality.
MrMuunster - Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - link
10yrs warranty, Good enough for your general usage, good pricing, eh i say there's no better choice atm.Sivar - Thursday, January 26, 2023 - link
FSB continues to make solid power supplies for the price point. I have long used them in medium-end builds for others because they are reliable and not overpriced, though I use Seasonic in my own builds (without much apparent benefit).