Apevia Captain550 ATX Power Supply

I haven’t had issues, but it’s basically a 475W PSU instead, and pretty flimsy. Get the Apevia Prestige 600W or Segotep 650W instead

I give it 5 stars because I have purchased this 5 times and all of them work. None of the PCs that I put it in have failed due to the PSU.
I had 1 that kinda made a little buzzing sound and I know that’s not great but it has not died. But it’s also like what $35?
The 5 STARS is for the pice and the all black cables.
It does EXACTLY what it is advertised to do.

Les connecteurs d’alimentation 12V, ATX et PS2 peuvent être difficiles à séparer.

It’s a fairly light unit with a very quiet blue led cooling fan. It arrived in excellent condition and was well packaged. Inside the box were 110 AC cable, the PSU, a bag with 4 screws for mounting the unit and some documentation. The bundled cables are all black but are not sleeved or in my opinion properly bundled presenting as a loose grouping of individual wires with only 2 zip ties installed to group each cable bundle . I placed a 4″ zip tie every 3″ to each cable bundle to prevent a rats nest of all the loose wires going every where within the build. It looks much neater now even in a case with minimal cable management capability such as the one I am using for this project, a Rosewill FBM-01 mini tower. I am still waiting for a FM2+ MoBo to arrive to finish putting together the project.

I did, however, pretest this PSU with a power supply tester and all the output lines are working properly. I’ll supply more info when the build is complete and fully burned in. For now everything seems OK so it looks like I won’t have to send this PSU back to Amazon based on my preliminary testing.

Here’s the tester I use to pre-check PSU’s I bought this after installing a dead PSU better a pre check than a disassembly.

https://www.amazon.com/Computer-PC-Tester-Connectors-Enclosure/dp/B076CLNPPK/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2T0Q4ADFHBPOM&dchild=1&keywords=power+supply+tester+for+atx%2Fsata%2Fhdd&qid=1597075680&sprefix=power+supply+test%2Caps%2C228&sr=8-4

EDIT

Got a FM-2 Mo-Bo and installed a A10-5700 APU and a Asus 750-TI with a 8GB set of Ram a 128GB TeamGroup SSD boot drive and a 500 GB Seagate data HDD. I also included a DVD burner as I have a stack of them to get rid of. I placed all of that in a Rosewill FBM-01 case, a little tight wo/ great cable management space but OK. The system has been running great since it was built on August 18th. As we have no issues for a full month from the build generally and specifically the Captain 550 PSU I am happy with the power supply performance thus far. If any issues arise in the future, although unexpected in this undemanding build, I will revisit my review.

2nd edit. It’s the end of October and the unit is still running just fine. No BSD’s of shutoffs or any other janky behaviors. For my use as a secondary computer for internet surfing and light gaming it meets my needs. I wouldn’t use it in a more demanding rig doing video editing or class “A” games. I use my Ryzen R9 3950 PC for that but this unit comes in handy for when I am rendering video projects or when I am having Lara Croft kick some butt. Perhaps this PSU could do it but why torture myself on a basic computer to see. Anyway if you are building a budget PC then it would probably meet your needs too.

I purchased three of these for budget gaming builds, which have proven surprisingly good. The all-black cables, albeit thinner than most, are a nice touch. One thing of note: there is only one 6+2 cable, which is appropriate for a 550W PSU, but if you have a GPU with more than one 8-pin connector, this is not the PSU for you. That said, it is a good value that does what it is supposed to do. We’ll see how they hold up long-term.

Purchased in September as a Christmas gift for my son. Opened today (on Christmas) and the warranty sticker was broken and the u it doesn’t work. Because I purchased in September, I cannot return the unit. Very disappointing all around. I would rate 0 stars if that were an option.