EVGA Launches SuperNOVA 1000W and 850W Gold ATX 3.0 FTW Series PSUs

[GFreeman]

Introducing the EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 W/850 W Gold FTW Series - The power supply series designed to support up to 235% total power excursion and exceed the needs of today's most powerful PCs. With a half-bridge LLC resonant controller, DC-DC converter, and 100% Japanese Capacitors, the EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 W/850 W Gold FTW Series gives you the peace of mind to push your system to the limits.

Designed to support current and future standards, the EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 W/850 W Gold FTW Series is fully-compliant with ATX12V V3.0 and PCIe Gen 5.0 standards. This means you can use these power supplies with your current system or the system you want to build. More to the point, these power supplies are built to support up to 235% total power excursion and respond significantly faster to transient spikes, ensuring your card and system stay safe and fully powered at all times.



235% Total Power Excursion
The EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 W/850 W Gold FTW Series power supplies support up to 235% total power excursion and up to 300% GPU Power Excursion. This means that these power supplies can handle over 2x its rated wattage and up to 3x GPU sustained power for short periods of time. Rest assured that your current or future system will be able to handle a momentary spike in power usage.

Native 12VHPWR Thermal Protection Design
The EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 W/850 W Gold FTW Series features a native 12VHPWR PCIe connector delivering up to 600 W power output that also eliminates cable clutter. Prioritizing safety and protection, an advanced thermal protection circuit has been added to the 12VHPWR PCIe connector on the PSU side. This circuit serves to safeguard both your power supply and graphics card. If the connector is not correctly connected or if temperature anomalies are detected in the 12VHPWR PCIe connector, the circuit will activate an automatic shutdown. This added protection is particularly important to prevent potential overcurrent risks that may arise during heavy loads from your graphics card. This combination of efficient power delivery and proactive thermal protection ensures optimal performance and reliability in your system.

LLC & PFC MOSFET with Optimized Transistor Package
The LLC & PFC MOSFET incorporates an optimized transistor package that brings significant improvements to its functionality. This package design offers double the heat transfer areas and four times the power dissipation capability, resulting in superior temperature ratings. By managing the heat generation, the optimized transistor package enhances thermal efficiency, ensuring a highly reliable and durable performance for your power supply system.

Near-Platinum Efficiency Performance
The EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 W/850 W Gold FTW Series incorporates an optimized transformer that delivers exceptional performance. Through upgrades, this power supply unit has achieved an efficiency level approaching Platinum standards.

View at TechPowerUp Main Site | Source

 

[TF-GrayWizard]

Peace of Mind EVGA warranty and support for 3 Years

Again why is the warranty so bad on new EVGA PSUs

edit: and 220$ on Newegg

 

[Chrispy_]

Modular cables still not standardised or compatible between different EVGA units, so that's a big no-bueno.

It's no coincidence that SI's often only offer Corsair modular PSUs. If you buy one PSU every few years, it doesn't really matter, you put the spare cables aside and get them later. I buy 100+ PSUs a year and if there's ANY chance that the cables I have put aside could short-circuit, fuse-blow, or destroy hardware because of a pinout mismatch then I'm absolutely not using that brand of PSUs, period. Not now, not until they have standardised, promise to keep doing so with backward-compatibility, and have been doing it long enough that I can't easily purchase older, pre-standardised stock that risks fire, damage, or worse though pooly-labelled and undocumented loose cables in unmarked bags!

It's such a simple thing, how do so many PSUs brands f*ck it up after all these nearly 15+ years of making modular PSUs?

 

[wNotyarD]

Modular cables still not standardised or compatible between different EVGA units, so that's a big no-bueno.

Doesn't help EVGA outsources (or just rebrands) their PSUs to many different OEMs. From what I know: Super Flower, FSP, Andyson, Seasonic, HEC, High Power...
For every OEM out there, the modular cabling differs.

 

[MachineLearning]

Doesn't help EVGA outsources (or just rebrands) their PSUs to many different OEMs. From what I know: Super Flower, FSP, Andyson, Seasonic, HEC, High Power...
For every OEM out there, the modular cabling differs.

Super Flower > All for modular connections IMO.

And yes, considering their variety of OEMs, it's no wonder EVGA can't have a consistent cabling across their PSU lineup.
Having a 3 year warranty on this product makes me think EVGA does not plan on staying around all that long

 

[Chrispy_]

Doesn't help EVGA outsources their PSUs to many different OEMs. From what I know: Super Flower, FSP, Andyson, Seasonic, HEC, High Power...
For every OEM out there, the modular cabling differs.

That's no excuse. EVGA are the ODMs, they dictate the design and the pinout to their OEMs. This problem is caused by lazy ODMs just haphazardly using whatever pinout the OEM suggests without any consideration going forwards.

IIRC the Corsair pinout standard is a royalty-free open standard. I'll have to double-check that but there's no valid reason for this dumb problem to still be a thing.

I'm not singling out EVGA, but perhaps they should try harder than being a mediocre B-tier PSU brand if they've just lost the lion's share of their business by exiting the GPU market. They hjave more reason than any other manufacturer to make customers want their PSUs and the lack of consistency (plus a few reputation-destroying garbage-tier PSUs to their name) sure as hell aren't helping their cause.

 

[wNotyarD]

That's no excuse. EVGA are the ODMs, they dictate the design and the pinout to their OEMs. This problem is caused by lazy ODMs just haphazardly using whatever pinout the OEM suggests without any consideration going forwards.

Hence I said I don't know if they actually send designs for the OEMs to build, of if they just (lazily, as you said yourself) rebrand whatever the OEMs make for themselves.

 

[Double-Click]

Yeah the 3-year warranty is really bad here...

Honestly without Jonnyguru or someone else deep diving these (WIP here I know) I don't even bother.
Just get Seasonic branded with a good warranty and call it a day.

 

[P4-630]

• Peace of Mind EVGA warranty and support for 3 Years

Right, a no buy.....

 

[TheDeeGee]

Wasn't EVGA dead?

 

[Double-Click]

^ Not AFAIK. They dropped out of the GPU segment and then there was a rumor about dropping boards, but that was fake news.

 

[jonnyGURU]

Again why is the warranty so bad on new EVGA PSUs

edit: and 220$ on Newegg

How are they even going to support 3 years when they're not going to be in business?

Also... wasn't this launched last month as the XC? Even the box is the same: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare?CompareItemList=17-438-249,17-438-251&compareall=true

That's no excuse. EVGA are the ODMs, they dictate the design and the pinout to their OEMs. This problem is caused by lazy ODMs just haphazardly using whatever pinout the OEM suggests without any consideration going forwards.

Technically, EVGA isn't the ODM. They just ask the OEMs to label their products. For example, this PSU is the same as the GT, made byt HEC, but with a 12VHPWR connector on it.

Just get Seasonic branded with a good warranty and call it a day.

Nah. That's ok. I'll pass. ;-)

 

[wNotyarD]

Also... wasn't this launched last month as the XC? Even the box is the same: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare?CompareItemList=17-438-249,17-438-251&compareall=true

Comparing the articles on them both here at TPU, there's +35% total power excursion capability for the FTW. Does it justify a new SKU for that?

 

[jonnyGURU]

Comparing the articles on them both here at TPU, there's +35% total power excursion capability for the FTW. Does it justify a new SKU for that?

LOL! No. Knowing HEC, my guess is EVGA found something HEC f'd up and had them go back and fix it.

 

[wNotyarD]

LOL! No. Knowing HEC, my guess is EVGA found something HEC f'd up and had them go back and fix it.

I mean, coming from EVGA and their FTW against their XC branding, it's easy to see the marketing: "LOOK! BIGGER NUMBERS! MORE POWER!"

 

[jonnyGURU]

I mean, coming from EVGA and their FTW against their XC branding, it's easy to see the marketing: "LOOK! BIGGER NUMBERS! MORE POWER!"

200% is what's required for ATX 3.0. Seasonic and Superflower both say 235%. So they either they increased the power excursion or they just factored in a +/- margin into the spec. and put it in the copy so they're not considered "inferior to Seasonic or Superflower".

At the end of the day, it's not necessary for it to be $20 more. Especially since nobody even needs the 200% power excursion capability, never mind 235%.

 

[STSMiner]

I'll pass on these PSU's and wait for them to start using the correct female pins in the connectors for the 12V-2x6 / 12VHPWR cable.

 

[Dave65]

That warranty makes me wonder, maybe they won't be around long enough to honor it?
I think id skip anything EVGA until we see something new.

 

[jonnyGURU]

I'll pass on these PSU's and wait for them to start using the correct female pins in the connectors for the 12V-2x6 / 12VHPWR cable.
View attachment 307216

The brainwashing continues...

 

[Chrispy_]

The brainwashing continues...

Whilst you're here, is Corsair's Type 3/4/5 pinout standard an open standard? I'm sure I've read or watched that mentioned somewhere but can't remember where.
Or maybe I'm remembering it wrong....

 

[mrnagant]

Dang, that has the same warranty as their Bronze line. Is the warranty worse because of that connector?

 

[jonnyGURU]

Whilst you're here, is Corsair's Type 3/4/5 pinout standard an open standard? I'm sure I've read or watched that mentioned somewhere but can't remember where.
Or maybe I'm remembering it wrong....

You can't really patent something that already exists in the market (the Molex mini-fit jr and micro-fit) just because a pinout is a certain way. There's really no excuse not to standardize a pinout.

As far as I'm concerned, let everyone use Type 4. That means more aftermarket cable sales!

Currently, MSI, XPG, BitFenix and a handful of Thermaltakes (unfortunately, not all) use Type 4.

Dang, that has the same warranty as their Bronze line. Is the warranty worse because of that connector?

They don't want to give customers the false hope that they'll be around longer than 3 years. Maybe for that extra $20, they should give the customer a "free" Asurion or Allstate extended warranty so if they EVGA goes belly up in three years and the PSU goes tits up in five, the customer is covered.

 

[Why_Me]

Yeah the 3-year warranty is really bad here...

Honestly without Jonnyguru or someone else deep diving these (WIP here I know) I don't even bother.
Just get Seasonic branded with a good warranty and call it a day.

Vertex GX

Vertex GX

seasonic.com

 

[NeuralNexus]

No SFX PSUs???

 

[TheDeeGee]

I'll pass on these PSU's and wait for them to start using the correct female pins in the connectors for the 12V-2x6 / 12VHPWR cable.
View attachment 307216

I mailed Seasonic about that recently as i found out their 2x 8-pin to 12VHPWR cable also uses the dimple style terminals. They said there is currently no reason to go with with 4-spring as 3 dimple makes more than enough contact for the wattage required.