Sunday, March 1st 2020

Super Flower PSU Brand Entering the U.S. Market

Super Flower is a leading manufacturer of high-performance power supply products. Specialize and focusing on developing high-end products for the PSU market. Acting as a pioneer of launching 2000 W platinum flagship PSU in 2015, the product itself still holds the throne of the highest wattage can be found in the PSU market.

Having the innovative, advance technology and exclusive patents, Super Flower will continue to come up with high-performance PSU series to serve worldwide consumers, especially North America. In order to provide direct and comprehensive services, Super Flower announces entering North America PSU market by offering unique patent technology Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Titanium series with aggressive price for consumers with better choices.
Furthermore, Super Flower will exhibit and display 4 new series with total of 16 models during Computex and launch within 2020 respectively. Super Flower will starting selling Leadex Titanium, Leadex III and Leadex Platinum SE in March followed by Leadex III ARGB and ARGB pro in April.
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34 Comments on Super Flower PSU Brand Entering the U.S. Market

#2
SamuelL
UpgrayeddThis is awesome!
Agreed, but I wonder what this means for EVGA - I think super flower makes all of their high-end units?
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btarunr
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SamuelLAgreed, but I wonder what this means for EVGA - I think super flower makes all of their high-end units?
Same thing it means for SeaSonic and the dozens of brands that source from them.
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#4
R-T-B
I was going to comment earlier on the... uh, intersting english in this press release (sure Super Flower wrote it that way) but I see bta cleaned it up a bit. Nice work man. For a pretty big press release like this, it's probably important, but I still noticed lol.
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#5
sam_86314
Exciting! I love my EVGA 750 B3, which is apparently a Super Flower Leadex Silver variant. Good to get more options in the market.

This'll definitely affect EVGA.
btarunrSame thing it means for SeaSonic and the dozens of brands that source from them.
I thought SeaSonic OEM'd their own units?

Also that 2000W PSU; wouldn't you need to wire up a 20A circuit to use that here in the States?
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#6
The Quim Reaper
Great PSU's.

Back in the day, my old PC, i5 4690K (4.8Ghz) & 2 Nvidia 970's in SLI with 4 Hard Drives and 6 fans ran flawlessly for 5yrs on a 650w Gold Superflower PSU and it looked nice as well with its white LED power connectors (although I think they've since dropped that feature) and I can't ever recall seeing (or hearing) the PSU fan needing to spin into action either.

I would have gone with a new Superflower 850w for my current build if not for the fact that the Corsair RMx 850 Gold came up on special offer when I was putting it together and was $50 cheaper.

Highly recommended.
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#7
phill
They are great PSUs and whilst I've yet to try one, I do believe as it's already been mentioned that they do the OEM units for EVGA I believe and a few others.. Definitely a consideration for a TR build or Intel HDET if your going to go for high overclocks and power use :)
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#8
bogami
That we have known this design for some time now and there are slight differences between the models in efficiency and power. I had several systems where maximum power consumption reached 1200W to 1300W and this power supply offers a smaller power reserve which therefore gives better conditions for stability, efficiency, lifetime and operating temperatures are more acceptable with some reserve.!
However, new, better components can improve performance and are desirable, and some good progress is being made in the field of capacitors. I hope the prices will be acceptable.
What bothers me most about today's PSU production is the massive amounts of adhesive for reducing the noise of components (ripples) that call disaster (fire). This is better done, and Super Flower, which also makes EVGA power supplies, is better than most in this area.
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#9
Valantar
Kind of weird to see them touting their 2000W units and other massively overpowered stuff at a time when the average gaming PC consumes maybe 300W while gaming (if that), but I guess that's their claim to having THE BEST of something. I'd rather have them try to sell on quality though, which really shouldn't be a problem for them.
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btarunr
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ValantarKind of weird to see them touting their 2000W units and other massively overpowered stuff at a time when the average gaming PC consumes maybe 300W while gaming (if that), but I guess that's their claim to having THE BEST of something. I'd rather have them try to sell on quality though, which really shouldn't be a problem for them.
If you're into Threadripper3/W3175X extreme overclocking + GPU overclocking, maybe 2000W is what you need.
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#11
Al Chafai
btarunrSame thing it means for SeaSonic and the dozens of brands that source from them.
Seasonic too? I thought they source they own stuff.
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seasonic rep
Seasonic Rep
btarunrSame thing it means for SeaSonic and the dozens of brands that source from them.
Super Flower does not OEM for Sea Sonic and as well, not for the "dozens of brands that source from them". This is very very far from reality.
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#13
Al Chafai
seasonic repSuper Flower does not OEM for Sea Sonic and as well, not for the "dozens of brands that source from them". This is very far from reality.
yeah got you :)
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#14
dirtyferret
SamuelLAgreed, but I wonder what this means for EVGA - I think super flower makes all of their high-end units?
They made a good amount. Evga still uses seasonic and FSP among others. I'm sure they will sign a deal with another OEM.

I recall a time that the only way to get a Superflower unit was to buy a Kingwin.
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seasonic rep
Seasonic Rep
dirtyferretThey made a good amount. Evga still uses seasonic and FSP among others. I'm sure they will sign a deal with another OEM.
A few years ago, there were discussions with EVGA but to my knowledge, the project did not materialize.
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#18
dirtyferret
seasonic repYes, I stand corrected. But I think this was the only one... I think... Oooo... Mondays....
I believe you are correct as that was the only series using a seasonic platform.
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#19
brian111
seasonic repSuper Flower does not OEM for Sea Sonic and as well, not for the "dozens of brands that source from them". This is very very far from reality.
I believe he was referring to the fact that like Seasonic, Super Flower will sell directly to consumers as well as continue to supply other oems. ("Them" being Seasonic in his statement).
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#20
gamefoo21
btarunrSame thing it means for SeaSonic and the dozens of brands that source from them.
Seasonic OEMs for a bunch of brands. Most of Corsair's high end is Seasonic.

Super Flower can make some great power supplies but they can also make some very not so great supplies.

I've had great luck with my Seasonics but I appreciate the added competition.
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#21
kapone32
btarunrIf you're into Threadripper3/W3175X extreme overclocking + GPU overclocking, maybe 2000W is what you need.
The only way I could see that is with LN2 and every slot and port populated with power hungry components for TR4 (like HDDS) and 3x8 pin GPUs. The 3175X might be there though (with LN2) with less components as those are some serious main/server boards and the chips have been proven to be power hungry. Even with that I am sure there will be people who buy a 2000W unit thinking wrongly that it will be super efficient for their mainstream build.
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#22
Valantar
btarunrIf you're into Threadripper3/W3175X extreme overclocking + GPU overclocking, maybe 2000W is what you need.
Sure, but how many people in the US actually do that? Fifty? A hundred? And most of those I would assume get a lot of their hardware through sponsors anyhow. And I don't really think stupidly large LN2 OC PSUs are aspirational flagship products for the vast majority of buyers either.
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#23
seasonic rep
Seasonic Rep
We receive requests to make 2kW PSUs but declined to do so. It is not the technology but the cost that is the problem. The market is very limited, maybe we will see a few hundred pieces globally but the R&D, tooling, safety and testing costs all must be accounted for and that must be borne by our customers across the board and we just don't see the justification for it. For now, we feel 1,500 W is sufficient for 99% of the systems and probably the 650 ~ 750 W range is good for 95% (if not more) of the systems.
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#24
kapone32
ValantarSure, but how many people in the US actually do that? Fifty? A hundred? And most of those I would assume get a lot of their hardware through sponsors anyhow. And I don't really think stupidly large LN2 OC PSUs are aspirational flagship products for the vast majority of buyers either.
Well based on numbers it seems that more and more people are choosing the X399 for HEDT. I would like to think the number is higher for TR3 due to the TRX40 boards being decently priced considering what you get. There is also the fact that it would seem the TR 3 is focused at content creators like those working for movie studios and such. The Avengers created a nice market. I fully agree on the 3175 though as those boards are available but eye watering expensive and I have only seen Youtubers (and not all) with those boards.
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#25
Ubersonic
SamuelLAgreed, but I wonder what this means for EVGA - I think super flower makes all of their high-end units?
It's unlikely to cause an issue as they tend to target different buyers.

We've had Superflower over in the EU for about a decade and when side by side with EVGA the two tend to sell the same (internally) PSU with slightly different aesthetics and different cables. The main differences are that the EVGA ones have a longer warranty and lower price whereas the Superflower self titled ones look cooler. Buyers who go for the Superflower one for the added bling weren't going to buy the EVGA over a Corsair/Seasonic/etc anyway.

Something to remember though, is that just because both sell essentially the same PSU in different casing with different modular cables doesn't necessarily mean they are both as good, I.E Superflower had issues with their high power Leadex II PSUs that didn't affect EVGA units, this was because EVGA specified industry standard 6 and 8 pin connectors for connection of the peripheral and GPU/CPU modular cables whereas Superflower used smaller LED backlit 9 pin connectors for both which due to the smaller wiring gauge saw multiple instances of high powered dual GPUs burning the connector.
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