Akasa Essential Power 350 W Power Supply Review
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Akasa Essential Power 350 W is capable to deliver its labeled power at high temperatures. But as we always like to point out, maximum power isn’t everything. This unit presents lousy efficiency and therefore we can’t recommend it.
Even if it could present efficiency a little bit higher, it would still be a problematic product, because it only comes with two SATA power cables installed on the same cable, and nowadays even a very basic PC comes with one SATA hard disk drive and one SATA optical drive, making it difficult to install them when you only have 5 ½” (140 mm) between the two SATA power connectors.
Not to mention that at 350 W the voltage at the +12 V line was below than the minimum required, meaning that this product can cause you trouble if you operate it at its full labeled power.