New Aorus P850W Power Supply Comes to Market

Although Gigabyte has always been a player in the power supply market, it wasn't until a few months ago that its high-end gaming product brand, AORUS, fully entered the market with this Aorus P850W.

We are going to break down in a more detailed way all the characteristics that Aorus announces for this power supply:

·         100% modular wiring, something expected in a source of this level.

·         100% Japanese capacitors: again, it is normal to make use of them due to their known reliability, although it will remain to be seen in the internal analysis if this is so and if good quality series are used.

·         Fan with double ball bearings and a semi-passive mode of intelligent control. The fountain keeps the fan off at low loads and turns it on when necessary. Other sources with this mode make use of fans with hydraulic bearings or similar, which suffer much more in the on/off phase than ball bearings. AORUS made the right decision when using a fan of this type.

·         Unique 12V rail. Here AORUS joins the marketing that states that this implementation is the best when it necessarily is not, and the truth is that the multi-rail is expensive to implement since sources in this range provide protection characteristics. The brand says it is the best design for overclocking, something that is less debatable.

·         Efficiency 80 Plus Gold, with more than 90% efficiency on all loads over 20%, and a peak of 93% efficiency, all this with the European 230V power grid.

·         10 years’ warranty with the manufacturer, an extremely generous period, on par with most brands and above some others. Peace of mind in case the source comes out defective and confidence of AORUS in the quality of this new range.

AORUS has entered the PSU market with a satisfactory product concerning quality and performance.

In the external aspects, apart from the differentiating aesthetics of the source highlights the use of flat wiring that has given outstanding results, with additional capacitors for filtering that, surprisingly, are not annoying as it happens in other power supplies.

We found it disappointing that you can't use all the included CPU and PCIe connectors, but after thinking about it, we don't think it's a significant disadvantage as there are still enough to squeeze the maximum 850W from this source.

For the control of the semi-passive mode, Gigabyte took the correct way, making use of a fan with a double ball bearing that does not suffer as much in the on and off as it happens with other types of fans. It is only missed that this mode cannot be deactivated, as many users prefer not to use it. When the fan is turned off, there is no noise. If it is turned on, it is reasonably silent so that we can talk about a good sonority in this power supply.

The recommended price of this power supply is around 140 euros. This is a high price considering the fierce competition that exists in this market since for 10 or 20 euros less are alternatives of the same power and similar characteristics.