ASUS is the number one in motherboard producer in the world as well as they’ve been escalating to other production for some years, lately reaching the power supply market. Tough ASUS power supplies are not sold in the US, this didn’t prevent us from getting our hands on their 500 W products, which is sold all through the globe. Manufactured by Delta Electronics, does this power supply carry ASUS high-quality standards? Let’s see.

P-50GA is a small 5 ˝” (14 cm) power supply, having a 120-mm fan on its base, active PFC with no modular cabling system.

All cables have a nylon shield, but the sleevings don’t come from within the power supply. The cables integrated on P-50GA are:

• Main motherboard cable with a 20/24-pin connector.

• One cable with one EPS12V connector and one ATX12V connector.

• One cable with two six/eight-pin auxiliary power connectors for video cards.

• Two SATA power cables with two plugs each.

• One peripheral power cable with three standard peripheral power plugs and one floppy disk drive power connector.

• One peripheral power cable with three standard peripheral power plugs.

The cables are to some extent short, having 17 21/64” (44 cm) involving the power supply housing and the first connector on the cable with 5 ˝” (14 cm) amongst connectors, on cables with more than one connector. The length of the cables can make it complicated for you to make use of this power supply in a full tower case or even on a mid-tower case where the power supply is installed on the base of the case.

Almost all wires are 18 AWG. The ATX12V/EPS12V cable makes use of 20 AWG wires, which are thinner than we’d like to see on a 500 W product.

The number of connectors available is enough for you to build an entry-level or mainstream computer, but it would be good to observe at least six SATA power plugs. The two video card power connectors accessible are installed on the similar cable, which isn’t the most excellent configuration: it is always better to see those using individual cables.

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