Enermax Pro 82+ 625W PSU

Value and Conclusions

The cheapest price we've found is £92.81 including VAT – that’s a price well above most of the competition. The Corsair TX750W we recently reviewed is even cheaper at £87.98, so for a £5 saving it's safe to say the logical choice would be the Corsair that not only offers 125W more power but also our Excellence Award. The Corsair TX650W which is also non-modular and about the same wattage is £20 cheaper at £76.33 – some £15 cheaper than the Enermax Pro 82+.

Other products around the 600-650W range are the Thermaltake Toughpower QFan 650W we also reviewed recently at £70.49 – these products have just been certified by the 80 Plus programme.

Another non-modular PSU from PC Power and Cooling (hardly unexpected), the 610W Silencer, is only £64.57. The only downsides are that it's not as quiet as the Enermax and it doesn't have such nice cables. What it does have in its favour is a warranty that's over twice as long.

The Enermax brand does carry a significant amount of weight, but so does Corsair, PC Power and Cooling, Tagan and Seasonic for example. With PSUs becoming ever more a commodity product, it almost doesn't matter who you buy from because as long as it's a manufacturer with an established brand and reputation, you will get a product that works.

This means that price (and features to more a limited degree) will be the deciding factor. PSUs make good margins for companies, but we can expect to see these margins erode if a lot of people up their game and produce some quality units. The difficult thing no review site can realistically test for is lifetime – we have to take the word of the manufacturers for this and go on the brands’ previous reputations: make of that what you will for any given product and company.


We struggled to find other PSUs more expensive other than more Enermax products: the Modu 82+ is £10 more expensive again as is the Infiniti 650W we didn't really rate as well as the 720W. We did find a Seasonic M12 600W for £91.52 but it comes with a free Icy Box.

Final Thoughts...

The Enermax Pro 82+ 625W power supply is an excellent unit that delivers great performance, but sadly all of the hard work done there is marred by an asking price that prices it out of the competition. If the market wasn't full of great power supplies at lower price points, we would argue that the Enermax was worth the much higher asking price. Unfortunately for Enermax though, there are a lot of very good products (some with higher ratings) that perform as well as the Pro 82+ 625W.

We raised the serious price concerns with Enermax (“...are you serious?”) when we first talked about and tested the Pro and Modu 82+ PSUs. When told the RRP before launch (it has dropped by only a few pounds since then), it was clear that Enermax had an uphill struggle but the bottom line is that it doesn't matter how good the product is if the asking price is far, far too high to remain competitive. As a predominantly PSU-centric company, I hope Enermax realise this soon and not sit in a warm bubble back patting from the impressive performance results it is getting, otherwise it'll not notice people are shopping elsewhere.

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