Enermax Galaxy EGA1000EWL

A galaxy of watts to power anything and everything in your PC. And by galaxy we mean one thousand.

Enermax is a well respected brand overseas, and not something we’ve seen terribly much of in Australia – and now we have one to play with. With rumours of the stupidly power hungry G80 and R600 proliferating like a pack of rambunctious randy rabbits, it seems there’ll still be a need for stupidly over-specced power supplies for at least one more generation.

The Galaxy is a modular supply, with the first thing striking you being the incredibly high quality braiding enshrouding the cables – the main power cable feeling as strong and flexible as a freaking anaconda.

As is the way with the high end supplies, there is a four/eight pin split plug for the extra 12V, along with a fan cable for direct supply rather than going through a header on the motherboard. There are also three molex and three SATA connectors that can’t be removed, in addition to the main power connector this creates more clutter than is entirely required. In addition, the modular cables included are two more PCI-E, 12 SATA, 13 molex and two floppy.

To keep things organised, a wallet is included to store the modular cables. And you get a lanyard too, if you’re particularly brand proud.

A fault indicator is on the back, as well as a buzzer should anything go awry considering most of the time you’re not looking at the back of your case. If you find the buzzer annoying, it can be temporarily disabled by pressing a button on the back.

A huge 130mm fan sits at the top, and an 80mm at the front, both of which are incredibly quiet – considering how powerful this thing is, the silence is welcome. It’s definitely quieter than the other KW supply on the market provided by PC Power and Cooling.

At idle the 12V, 5V and 3.3V rails pulled 12.37, 5.06 and 3.35 respectively, while under load this didn’t shift a damn bit – a surprising and entirely luscious result.

Wrapped in a serious black semi-gloss finish, the Galaxy is definitely welcome in any system that requires this much power.