14 DAY TRIAL // We know Gigabyte provides top-quality motherboards, but over the past several years, the Taiwanese company has also managed to diversify their line of products. That's right, Gigabyte offers really nice CPU coolers and PC cases and now it also wants to get into the PSU business.
Gigabyte's PSU line-up bears the name of the Norse Supreme God Odin. All these PSUs come in Pro and GT variants, featuring total outputs of 550W, 680W and 800W. Gigabyte regards the Odin GT as its flagship series and claims that the design and testing for the new line-up took more than a year to complete. The Taiwanese designers did not forget about Microsoft?s new OS Vista, the new generation of dual or more PCI-express display cards and the Intel almighty multi-core processors when they started making these PSU models.
Although the new Odin GT PSUs don't boast +1KW capacities, Gigabyte included a bunch of interesting features that set these models apart. For instance, take the software management solution embedded in the GT family. This feature allows users to play with many characteristics such as output voltages and load on each rail, power fan speed tweak, localized or preset temperature monitors, power supply lighting control or proximity warning bells. Moreover, users may even preset their own performance modes, managing all those variables for a near-silent operation.
Odin integrates as much as four 12V rails of power output and this adds up for improved overall stability. The Odin PSUs are also designed to be modular models. This means that the devices feature advanced cable management options, which eliminate the possibility of untidy cable interiors and impeded airflow issues.
Other high quality components integrated in the Odin PSUs include Japanese capacitors, large illuminated heat sinks and 14CM dual-ball-bearing fans. All this advanced technology provides +80% efficiency rates.