Apevia SFX-AP500W Mini ITX/Micro ATX 500W Power Supply

the first one I received had a fault somewhere that made it only output around 9v on the 12v rail so tbe system wouldn’t post, I tried with a difrent non sfx supply and everything worked fine, I also tried this psu on a difrent system and still low voltage and no post, so I put in for a replacement because this was the only psu in this formfactor avalible in this price range so it was that simple, could I have shelled out for a stupidly expensive gold sfx from Silverstone or seasonic or corsair or cooler master, yes, did I want to literly put as much into tbe psu of this little usff server build as the rest of the build costs or close to it… absolutely not, so I put in for a replacement and Amazon being Amazon was absolutely on it and had me a replacement at my doorstep with 3days and the new one works fine, it’s not the best and the little fan that could realy works up a sweet trying to tame a ~300watt load but hay I didn’t expect much for less than $40 and it’s stable, it passes a aggressively unfair stress test with no perceptible voltage drop on any rail, and when I’m not taking it to a blacksite torture chamber and just using it under regular loads it absolutely stands on it own feet, damn site better than the pico psu it replaced…to be fair that pico was rated for 300w and I’m pushing a 5600 with a slight OC and a rtx 4060 LP but in reality that should be more than around 200watts so idk it just struggled to deliver a stable voltage even while being pushed via 12v off a 1200watt hp ProLiant Via a mining breakout that is more than capable of delivering the requisite currents for almost a dozen other devices using either 12v like switches and routers and a firewall and a couple asrock deskminis via a beefy marine 12v to 19v boost converter, idk I guess the inductors on the pico were cheap or maybe the guage of wire from the 12v supply was to thin idk it probebly should have only been rated for a buck fity but hay in no matter now cuz this unjustifiably cheap sfx psu has replaiced it and now I can reliably power a array of 8 3.5in hdds in this server finaly lol…no this is not long term cold storage that I’m fooling myself with being acceptably safe with this ultra cheap psu no this a 8 fairly fast big enterprise HDDs in a complicated and admittedly conveluted lvm array with nvme pcie 4.0 caching that I can read and write to ad a clip capable of fully saturating a 10gb full duplex link… and for that purpose this little budget server that could…realy realy can lol

 This Mini ITX Power Supply Is amazing its super small super quiet Only thing id add is another 8 pin graphics power Pin insted of 2 4 pins but yah i love gaming on the gooooooooooo

Not much to say. Great value, hasn’t caused an issue. I wish the fan was a bit quieter, but I can’t complain too much. Gets 50% efficiently at low usage, but that’s common among power supplies. Cords are a bit cheap, but what can you expect.

I wouldn’t trust it with super mission critical data or pushing 500 watts, but its amazing at what it does for cheap.

I bought the power supply at aug 2023.
But I found it not work at Spet 2024.

I have a GPU (3090TI) plugged externally to a tiny PC which doesn’t have a dedicated power supply.
I bought this power supply to feed power just to the gpu and nothing else.
It’s been working great, and the fan is pretty much noiseless. Very good value for price.

The only nit pick is that the wires aren’t modular, so I have a bundle of unused wires sticking out of it. (At this price point though, I wouldn’t expect modular wires anyway)

For SFX hard to beat at the price offered so buy on sale so far so good quality wise.

Ya llevo un año con ella para un ensamble Mini ITX en un NR200P soporta excelente un AMD Ryzen 5 3500x y una gráfica Rx6600, pensé que se quemaría a la semana por su precio pero nada de eso, aclaro está conectada a un regulador de voltaje con nobreak de buena calidad, así que no tiene caídas de tensión o a sufrido de apagones