Today, we’ll be taking a look at the Thermaltake Toughpower GF A3 Hydrangea Blue 1050W PSU. It’s a fully modular power supply that’s certified 80 PLUS Gold and compatible with Intel’s ATX 3.1 specifications, which supports up to 200% power excursion, reaches 60% low load efficiency and complies with required power supply timing standards.
It uses high quality Japanese capacitors and offers superb durability, longevity and power efficiency. It features a powerful +12V single rail @ 87.5A, giving you a total power output of up to 1050W.
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It comes with a 120mm fluid bearing fan that delivers excellent airflow. Furthermore, the Smart Zero Fan feature will adjust the fan speed and minimizes undesired noise.
The package comes with low-profile white cables which makes cable management easier, reduces clutter and increases airflow inside the chassis. It features a native PCIe 12V-2×6 connector for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics card with the PCIe Gen 5.1 connector. It also supports 3 x 8-pin slots for AMD graphics cards and entry RTX 40 series graphics cards.
To protect your PC components, the Toughpower GF A3 1050W is built with industry grade protections: OCP(Over Current Protection), OVP (Over Voltage Protection), UVP(Under Voltage Protection), OPP(Over Power Protection), SCP(Short Circuit Protection), OTP(Over Temperature Protection).
The power supply has also been optimized to work with all generations of Intel’s processors to achieve maximum energy savings. And lastly, you get a massive 10-year warranty, which is amazing.
I’m sure many of you already know who Thermaltake is but in case you don’t here’s some info on the company. I would like to thank Thermaltake Premium for providing the review sample. This is what Thermaltake Premium has to say about themselves on their website:
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To test the power supply, we’ll be using a Ryzen 9 9950X processor which has a beefy TDP of 200W+ at full load (default TDP is 170W). We’ll also be using a MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi motherboard, 48GB of DDR5-8000 ram, a Crucial T700 1TB SSD, and a powerful GeForce RTX 4080 Super. For cooling, we’ll using a Thermaltake Ultra 360 AIO cooler mounted with 3 x Corsair RX120 RGB cooling fans.
OK, let’s dive straight in start by taking a look at the specifications in our next page. You can buy the Thermaltake Toughpower GF A3 1050W Power Supply (black version) for around USD $139 from Amazon – https://amzn.to/3Nf6KYM
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