14 DAY TRIAL // Lots of power supplies have been released at this year's Computex trade show, taking place in Taipei, Taiwan, and Rosewill is one of the companies with such things on display there, and not only.
We've already checked out the company's compact gaming keyboard and even a more esoteric, if the word even applies, product: the RX Series Color Keycaps that let you choose the color of each key on a keyboard that uses Cherry MX Red mechanical switches.
Now, we're going to look at something that's only slightly less odd and/or unusual than the Color Keycaps: a digital power supply, or rather, a series of digital power supplies.
Mostly, power supplies are pretty straightforward. Even the ones with high output and efficiency, like the Thermaltake Toughpower Titanium 1500W, work pretty simply.
Just install the thing in a PC, connect the cables (if it's a modular version), turn on the power, and voila: instant PC boot.
Digital power supplies are different, one might say superior, to analog ones, in that they give you software-based direct control over various functions. That includes the power domains, the fan speed, etc.
Corsair has something like this, but it needs the PSU to be connected to the motherboard through a USB cable, in addition to the normal stuff.
Rosewill's method doesn't have that. In fact, it's not PC-based at all. Where Corsair's implementation depends on a Windows app, Rosewill's needs an Android app instead, because it's not the PC you're expected to employ in adjusting your PSU settings.
Instead, Rosewill made it so that you can control the power supply from your smartphone. It has installed a Bluetooth module on the PSU itself, you see.
Or, well, PSUs, since there are more of them in the collection, with outputs of 600W, 750W, 850W, 1000W, and 1250W. All of them have modular cabling systems. Semi-modular anyhow, since the 24-pin ATX and 8-pin EPS, along with one pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors, are fixed.
Those are essential to any PC build, however, so it's not like you'll ever be able to choose not to install them. Not if you want your computer to actually start up when you press the power button.
Besides the power output, the Rosewill AIM digital PSUs are set apart by how many PCI Express graphics cables they possess. It starts at one, with the 600W PSU, rises to two on the 750W and 850W models, then to three on the 1000W PSU, and finally four on the 1250W version. All of them boast 80 Plus Platinum efficiency, signifying efficiency of 90% at 20% load, 92% at 50% load, and 89% at 100% load.
