Closer Look at the Revolution Duo 700W
Exterior is quite standard comparing to some other Enermax series. I mean it’s simply black but looks good and feels rugged. Large 700W GOLD sign is also just standard for Enermax standards. I remember couple of series with gold finish and various flashy details. Here you won’t find it but for many users it’s an advantage. So again depends on user’s point of view.
Inside the casing there are two fans. Larger, 100mm spins at about 900-1200 rpm and smaller, 80mm between 1380 and 2000 rpm. Both are not so high power but it’s not required. They supposed to force airflow and keep low noise and that works as declared.
Below are photos of the interior so you can take a look at the quality and what to expect.
In general build quality is good and really clean. I’ve seen better Enermax series but it’s still not bad. Soldering is also on the high level and we can’t complain about it at all, however top Enermax series are a bit better.
The main input capacitor is rated at 400V 330uF and 85°C. We can also see two quite large heatsinks – bridge rectifiers and 12V rail components. There is still a lot of space between the components so shouldn’t be issues with airflow. We’ve seen builds with really tight placed components where cooling could be an issue. Here all looks fine and we will check it in various tests.
It’s time on some performance tests to check how the Revolution DUO 700W works under load.
Performance
Test platform is based on the i9-7900X processor at 1.2V, EVGA GTX1080Ti graphics card and couple of other components which we find in a typical gaming PC like SSD drives.
Idle is low load mode without any application running as primary. There are however various processes in the background so we can expect up to 150W load.
Light load is mixed mode, browsing the web, using various players and other more standard software. We’ve used PCMark 10 as base for this stage.
Maximum load is 95%+ CPU load mixed with 95%+ graphics card load. It gives us constant 630W and spikes a bit above that.
As we can see, results are pretty good. Voltages are not far from reference values even under full load. Temperatures inside the case are also not affecting results while closed case had no additional fans to force the airflow so the Revolution DUO had to help in cooling down the air inside the PC.
During longer tests were no issues at all. Voltages were stable and we haven’t noticed any spikes above the typical values.
This PSU is clearly worth recommendation as long as you don’t need modular build.
