Chieftec iARENA GPA GPA-500S
 | Outdated Product Power: 500; Cooling system: active; MB/CPU power supply: 24+4; Manufacturer's warranty: 2 years; E-Catalog uses affiliate links compensated by our partners. |
Chieftec iARENA GPA GPA-500S 350 W 24+4 pin 350 W 24+4 pin 400 W 24+4 pin 400 W 24+4 pin GPA-400S 400 W 24+4 pin GPA-400S8 450 W 24+4 pin 450S 450 W 24+4 pin 450S8 450 W 24+8 (4+4) pin 500 W 24+4 pin Efficiency 72% 500 W 24+4 pin Efficiency 80% 500 W 24+8 (4+4) pin 550 W 24+8 (4+4) pin 600 W 24+8 (4+4) pin 650 W 24+8 (4+4) pin 700 W 24+8 (4+4) pin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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It worked for eight years without any complaints. I was pulling a 95 Watt old Athlone, and I saw that it was also consuming 230 Watts. Moreover, Athlone is overclocked from 3 to 3.5 GHz. Now he has retired to build on a Ryzen Z 3200G; he will live without discrete data for another 10 years. Reliable, didn't turn off for weeks. Noisy under load, it actually produces no more than 400 watts. |
Whoever says what, but the power supply for a PC plays a crucial role, and the GPA 500S8 is a good, reliable comrade. With such parameters, it would be possible to take a cheaper PSU, but believe me, when you use a PC with an SSD and this unit, you will no longer take dubious models, since the Chieftec brand itself is very reliable. And at the expense of cable lengths, as it turned out, it is necessary to clarify and check in advance so that everything fits. It works quietly, does not squeak, does not stink from it. The cables turned out to be unexpectedly short, especially for powering the processor: the cable goes into a stretch, hooking on the CPU cooling system (the space in the case for the PSU is allotted at the bottom, and the CPU on the motherboard on top)  Artem A.: use Chieftec GPA-500S8 month or more i recommend it should buy |
I didn’t see the PSU worse. When I turned it on, it sparked right away, the PC didn’t start, turned it off. Nothing works Died immediately after plugging in use Chieftec GPA-600S less than month |
No overpayment
Externally, the Chieftec iArena GPA-500S power supply does not stand out with anything special: grey colour, cables without braid, a standard round ventilation grill. But, probably, it’s for the best - you don’t have to overpay for the design.
Two lines +12 V
Functionally, the GPA-500S can be attributed, rather, to the lower average level than to state employees. It provides two separate +12 V lines (one for CPU and one for the graphics card), which give out a total of 396 W, which is enough to power any processor and, if not a flagship, then certainly a pre-flagship graphics card (up to 200 W). 6+2-pin connector included.
Wide Connectivity
130 W of power is available to power the drives (+3.3 and +5 V lines), as well as three SATA connectors, two Molex and one FDD (required to power some sound cards).
You can blame the GPA-500S only for the short length of the cables. If you install the PSU from below, then it will be difficult to reach the processor power connector on the motherboard.