SilverStone HELA Series Platinum ATX 3.0/ATX 3.1

Back in the day the strongest badass PSUs could deliver up to 1600W. There was only one Super Flower Leadex that went a little above, at 2000W, which in essense was just an “overclocked” 1600W unit. These days are gone, with GPUs becoming more power-hungry with each generation, so we started seeing now PSUs with 2.5kW or higher capacitites. In today’s review I will evaluate SilverStone’s monster, the Hela 2500Rz, which can actually deliver more than 2500W!

The SilverStone HELA 1200R is a high-performance ATX v3.0 and PCIe 5.0 ready PSU, suitable for power-hungry systems. It is not affordable, but if you pay more than 2,000 dollars for an RTX 4090, you should not cheap out on the PSU that will power it, along with the rest system components.

The Silverstone HELA 2050 W is the strongest PSU money can buy today. Super Flower has a 2 kW unit, the Leadex Platinum 2000 W, which is still highly competitive, but it is hard to find, especially in the US. Pricing for the HELA may make you want to cry, but most users won't need this much power. In contrast, users with increased power needs have already invested into super-expensive graphics cards and other hardware, so $600 for the heart of their system won't discourage them.