Gigabyte Odin Plus 700 W Power Supply Review

Conclusions

Gigabyte Odin Plus 700 W is not a bad product: it can deliver far more than its labeled power, presents a very good efficiency if you pull up to 560 W from it and won’t offer any kind of risk of use.

However, we were a little bit disappointed. Because it uses a high-end design – DC-DC conversion, meaning that the unit is basically a +12 V power supply with the +5 V and +3.3 V outputs being produced by two small switching-mode power supplies attached to the +12 V line – with Japanese capacitors on the primary side and only solid caps on the secondary, we expected more from it. Ripple and noise, although inside specs, were too high in our opinion, proving that the use of high-end capacitors may not necessarily help reducing electrical noise (the use of high-end capacitors has more to do with life-span). The cable configuration was not the best we’ve seen for a product on this power range.

Everything will depend on the price it will reach the market. For what it offers, we hope it could arrive in the United States costing around USD 100. In Europe this unit is coming with a suggested price tag of € 130 (around USD 160), which makes the recommendation of this unit impossible, since we have better units costing way less than that.