EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 1300W Power Supply Review @ [H]

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EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 1300W Power Supply Review - EVGA has a bit of a rocky road with HardOCP when it comes to PSU reviews. Today we give EVGA the opportunity to redeem itself with its 1300 watt powerhouse touting "exceptional efficiency" and a fully modular design that is "silent and optimized for the enthusiast." All this with a 10 year warranty? It must be a badass.
 
Great review!! Glad to see it did well here, I was curious if/when you'd get to review it.
 
An improvement no doubt, but nothing that would sway me off a wattage-comparable Seasonic / Antec / Enermax / SilverStone / Corsair / XFX unit unless the price was seriously discounted.

It's a crowded field and Evga PSUs tend to...underwhelm compared to the better made units in the space.
 
I was disappointed by this review, and pleasantly surprised. When the first page teaser stated, "It must be a badass," combined with the EVGA PSU history here, I was hoping for Dynex v2.0, with sparks and smoke.
But $150 for that PSU is a steal! And but for those red cables, a nice looking unit to boot.
Props, EVGA.
 
I've no idea how other PSU companies deal with transfer of warranty, but I don't see why you view EVGA's policy as such a train wreck.
Bottom-line, EVGA's goal is making a profit.
Given equitable quality with their competitors, a 10-year warranty is a huge incentive to buy their product.
Why would they want to shoot themselves in the foot by extending that coverage to someone who isn't buying the product from them?
If my friend has a 2-week-old PSU that he'll sell me for $50 off retail, but that $50 buys me a new PSU with 7 more years of coverage, guess which one I'm buying?
Why is that so objectionable?
 
I have been using this for my mining rig, great PSU! barely broke a sweat with 1100W load 24/7 for 3 months.
 
Dang that price!

Hopefully this will encourage EVGA to send over more of their products in the future.
 
I've no idea how other PSU companies deal with transfer of warranty, but I don't see why you view EVGA's policy as such a train wreck.

Because it is?

Bottom-line, EVGA's goal is making a profit.

That is news to me. I need to rethink my entire perspective on capitalism now.

Given equitable quality with their competitors, a 10-year warranty is a huge incentive to buy their product.

Not really, BFG had a lifetime warranty. How is that warranty doing for you now? Glad you paid extra for it?

Why would they want to shoot themselves in the foot by extending that coverage to someone who isn't buying the product from them?

Because they already do? I bought the product from Amazon, not EVGA. You see how that works?

If my friend has a 2-week-old PSU that he'll sell me for $50 off retail, but that $50 buys me a new PSU with 7 more years of coverage, guess which one I'm buying?

If you buy a PSU from your friend after two weeks you LOSE 7 years of warranty relative to buying it new. If you buy a PSU off of your friend for $50 off of the retail price and the warranty transfers you know what happens to EVGA? Nothing, EVGA already sold it to Amazon who sold it to your friend, they got paid before your friend bought the product and they are not a party to the transaction that was between your friend and Amazon, Amazon is not a broker. The only person losing out is your friend who subsidized your purchase. A power supply is not like content which can be copied or something used for a while like a game rather it is a product that each and every PC has to have. There is no loss to EVGA by supporting their product.

Why is that so objectionable?

I think we covered it rather well in the review but.............it is needlessly complicated, kills long term value as people like you want long warranties on products and are willing to pay for something you will never use, and it puts the product at a competitive DISADVANTAGE compared to companies who don;t have terrible support policies.
 
Big fan of this line of power supplies. Superflower Leadex platform for extremely good prices. I got my 750 for $110 shipped off Amazon which is a smoking deal for this quality. Kudos to EVGA for offering exceptional quality at great prices. Dollar for dollar they could be the best or among the best on the market as far as I can tell
 
wowwww

was not expecting this, looks like EVGA are trying to turn things around
 
I have one of these powering my dual amd 290's with a 4.7ghz 3930k.. Really nice unit, can't beat it for the price. I go the 35 dollar rebate back also, it's on a cool evga amex card :)
 
I'm just glad theres another brand in the US that I can buy Superflower units from. I can't bring myself to support Kingwin, so it's been impossible to buy a SF unit in the US for a long time. Now we have Rosewill and EVGA bringing them over consistently, and I like it.
 
great review but this unit came out what feels like a year ago why is it only being reviewed now. Its not new..
 
great review but this unit came out what feels like a year ago why is it only being reviewed now. Its not new..



EVGA will not send us samples so we do not give its products any priority. When we start getting low on volume, we start looking for ones to buy, and given the price currently, this one looked like a great PSU to look at. Quite frankly, most of the power supplies for sale today have designs that are years old and are just refreshes.
 
I quite like mine, I was wondering when [H]ard was going to review this. I bought this when I got my Xfire 290s and its been great, I chose this mostly because of the price and the review it got from Johnny Guru. I think I got it for 150 last December, great review though.
 
I've owned the PSU since the summer and love it. I think I paid $129 for it at Microcenter. Maybe $139. Amazing price
 
This combined with JG induced me to buy one. My PCP&C 850 SSI (pre-OCZ and subsequent "Fire-Power Technologies") was built for a different era. Long story short, it has load issues if the wrong drives are connected to three of its six SATA connectors (only six, yeah...) so either it's dying or it's just not liking the current pull since it has 4x17A 12v rails.

Regardless, you shouldn't have to do trial-and-error to make sure your drives are on the right connectors.
 
great review but this unit came out what feels like a year ago why is it only being reviewed now. Its not new..

There is another advantage. The unit we got is what a retail unit actually is and it turns out that is not the same as what EVGA shipped as samples to reviewers. At the least, we can see than fan substitution and the lower quality soldering work here.
 
Although, I bought it based on reviews already out there and I am not really happy that the retail version differs from those units at least it isn't a bad unit overall. I picked it up on BF for $129 AR.

At that price point it seems to be leading the pack.
 
Cool! So when I go tri 980 SLI I'll know what to get! (like that is going to happen)

I've been rocking a 620w Antec for about 4 years and it's been solid as balls. It wasn't top of the line either, was some Newegg special.
 
Great review as usual. Glad they got a nice product out.

However, I just can't bring myself to buy evga stuff anymore. The back of the circuit board just looks filthy, fingerprints and all on this PSU with nasty/sloppy looking solder action. I had two motherboards from them. They all bent when you installed a cooler (even stock Intel) on their cheap-ass paper thin PCBs resulting in the MOSFFET heatsinks never making contact while their inability to do solid thermal design resulted in screaming chipset fans. Once released, BIOS updates were slow to come with fundamentals like fan throttling rarely working well.

Maybe things are different now, but I've been burned too many times.
 
Dang that price!

Hopefully this will encourage EVGA to send over more of their products in the future.

Don't think it will happen long as Joe Darwin is marketing manager at evga. If you don't write a fluff article about evga products, he will blacklist you.
 
I have an Evga g2 1000 watt psu and it's been great. Extremely long warranty, best support in the industry plus the psu was cheap vs others. I'm happy
 
Don't think it will happen long as Joe Darwin is marketing manager at evga. If you don't write a fluff article about evga products, he will blacklist you.
What? Joe Darwin gives away PSUs for fluff pieces?!?

/me runs to write an e-mail!


Thanks! :D

EDITED BITS: A very good review btw, thank you for the information. I'm in sudden need of a 1200w+ PSU and I've been searching for almost a whole day and a half now and this EVGA is about the best value I can find. Much appreciated.
 
Welp, after 4 years my Wifes G2 1300w PSU just went poof and died a painful death :( Just got an RMA with EVGA going. Thank god for a 10 year warranty! I will update this thread later let ya know how it goes.
 
Welp, after 4 years my Wifes G2 1300w PSU just went poof and died a painful death :( Just got an RMA with EVGA going. Thank god for a 10 year warranty! I will update this thread later let ya know how it goes.
Were you keeping any kind of load on it?
 
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