Thermaltake Toughpower 750W

When normal power isn't enough, 750 watts of battle-hardened power ought to do the trick.

Thermaltake’s Toughpower series is really starting to challenge the heavyweights, now coming in at a mind boggling 750W – you’d need a lot of hard drives to justify such a huge amount of power (or maybe some old style quad SLI), but we know that there are people out there who need it. Heck, we are such people.

Fortunately for us, the price hasn’t followed the power increase, coming in a good whack lower than its competitor Silverstone.

Four 12V rails provide a large bulk of the power from the black shine-finished box, and the single positively-monstrous 140mm fan – while not matching Seasonic’s marvellous volume levels – manages to stay quiet enough that the noise generated will disappear altogether once mounted in a case.

A siliceous mold is even included to sit between where the power supply is mounted to the case, cutting down on vibrations. Two thumbs up for Thermaltake there.

The modular system is as always welcome, however we would have hoped for jacks which differed more obviously (such as Hiper’s), rather than us relying on the labels and slowing down the process. Nonetheless the system works well, and the modular cables supplied are an excellent length.

Throwing it into our standard AMD test bench, the Toughpower pulled 3.34V, 5.12V and 12.12V on the 3.3V, 5V and 12V rails respectively. Loading up 3DMark at insane settings to strain the system, the Toughpower laughed at as, throwing load values of 3.33V, 5.11V and 12.11V.

If you’re in the market for a lot of power, you could do a lot worse than picking up one of these behemoths.

It even comes with a poorly translated slogan, ‘Toughpower – The Independent Voltage Output’, the second best slogan we’ve seen this year, after ‘Coolall Your Eyes’, another Thermaltake special. What more could you want?