Apevia Prestige 600W 80+ Gold Gaming Power Supply

Included photo is PSU, atop my system, half way through install during a small break to google how to run the wires properly through my case to maximize airflow, if such a thing even existed.

I’m a relative noob when it comes to building pc’s and what not, so having an important part like this go out on my second pc had me pretty scared to screw around with it. This fit my price range, and had that gold certification on it unlike a bunch of others i had looked at, so i went ahead and bought it. It came, and i dropped it into my system without issue, and had no problems booting right up and resuming use. There are way too many wires for my build, so all of that extra was moderately difficult to find a place for inside my moderately small case, but with some careful thought, and creative use of a few of the holes intended for running cable anyway, coupled with some double twisted Floral wire used to stiffen and support some of the longer, more intrusive extra cables i managed to make it all fit inside safely, albeit it’s not very pretty. My case is mostly closed off anyway, excluding some breathing holes on one side so that’s not important to me anyway. The sound it puts out is on par if not more quiet than the previous 500w EVGA – br i had in it, so that’s pretty nice. I don’t know enough nor have the proper tools to check wether or not its outputting what it claims on the box, so i can’t vouch for that aspect, but So far, after 3 days of constant use, and all that, Everything seems to be working as intended.

I procrastinated and compared power supplies for 2 weeks because i don’t know jack about how to choose one that’s not a scam or a piece of shizzle that’ll arrive busted, or end up burnt out or broken after a week, so ordering this one was an excercise in fear and doubt. All those industry specific words in the listing mean nothing to me, and the only thing i knew coming into this buy was that anything with the word gaming in the title is usually overpriced simply because they tacked that word on at the end. There’s no such thing as a ‘Gaming’ anything. All tech -can- be used for gaming, and nothing is built with only gaming in mind as its intended use. It’s a sales tactic. That being said, This Gaming power supply was not overpriced when compared to similar units, the quality of it is on par with everything else i compared to that wasn’t obviously a cheap piece of crap, and it even came with an instruction booklet that wasn’t written in broken english that included data sheets, and charts listing all of the statistics affiliated with this power supply. (The last one i bought for a different build was english, but was unreadable and had no information at all aside from what was on the box/sticker besides our power supply strong. you make big play, have many fun etc)

I tried to make this review as friendly as possible to those people like me that have little clue how to choose a power supply when theirs stops working, and they skip googling for info and ideas, and head straight to amazon on a mission to fix their machine and get everything back up and running.

Tl;Dr- Worth it. Would reccomend. Solid performance, easy to install, Quality wiring, Quiet fan, A little too much extra wire length, but not so much that it’s unmanagable, works as advertised, and provides stats within booklet for those that would care to have them. 7/10. i withheld 1 point because nothing is perfect, and another 2 points because it was mailed to me as just a power supply shelf box with shipping information labels attatched, and was not taped shut or protected in any way from the elements aside from the discretion of UPS. (i guess im fortunate that my UPS guy was having a good day, and chose to be gentle with my delivery.)

Used this in my $1200 gaming pc, works great with an i7 and a 3060 graphics card

idk after 4 years i could not recommend this power supply enough i have bought it 4 times for my current pc and my old build that i gave away and i bought one for my friend recommended it to 3 friends and they loved it and also sold 2 computers with it and all i can say this is so reliable and i love it i don’t trust the other apevia ones but ik this one is great i bought this power supply before all the big youtubers like Zach tech tips and oz they used to have mustard and ketchup cables now there all black witch im really happy i am currently using it with a setup using a rx 7700x and a rx 6650 xt im going to upgrade to a 7700 xt soon and i dont even have to upgrade. send me another power supply apevia im making another pc for my girlfriend and another one for my friend whos getting into pc gaming if there not going to send me a free one im going to buy 2 more anyways.