Montech Titan Gold 1000W, ATX 3.0

warrantyWhile some might find it boring that most branded power supplies are produced by just a handful of OEMs, I disagree. I believe this still allows for significant variation in the end products, beyond just the styling of the external case. It also enables more competition in the market by allowing new players to enter, without the huge burden of developing a new PSU platform from scratch. The Montech Titan Gold 1000 W is a great example—it's hard to find any significant downsides in any of the parameters we measured. Yes, the sound levels at the top end of power delivery range do become clearly audible, but that's the case for nearly all competing PSUs as well.

As I mentioned earlier Montech might not be one of the leading PSU manufacturers in the world but thanks to CWT their Titan Gold 1000W is a high quality and performance model. Yes, at just over full load the 135mm fluid dynamic bearing fan does get a bit loud (luckily it doesn’t reach 2300RPM even at that point) but once again if you manage to somehow max the output of your PSU chances are noise coming from your CPU/GPU coolers will mask noise coming from the PSU. I’d also like to see two 12VHPWR connectors since they may eventually be needed but I do understand why Montech went with just one.

The Montech Titan Gold 1000W registers high performance, it is not noisy and it has a 12VHPWR connector. The most important of all, it passes all ATX v3.0 transient response tests, so it won’t have a problem powering the existing and upcoming graphics cards.