Gigabyte GP-P450B (80 Plus Bronze Certified, Silent Fan, Active Power Protection, 3 Year Warranty, Power Supply)

a bit of an overkill for my old PC, but $40 was a good deal. Gigabyte has been having issues with this line of PSUs (See Youtube), but I dont expect this to give me too much trouble. I just needed something a little beefier than the 240W PSU that came with the system. The flat ribbon cable design is a nice touch.

Working as expected

My very old Antec PSU died in my make-shift FreeNAS and needed a cheap ( but safe ) replacement. I normally buy Seasonic or EVGA but I thought for the price I would give this a try. Gigabyte make great motherboards. My FreeNAS is my 3rd backup solution so it is not mission critical but has a music library for my music streamer. The PSU is bronze certified and the cables are all black; no mustard cables. For a simple solution this fits the bill. Definitely buy again.

What can you say about a PSU. It works, it did not catch fire and the fan noise is very low. I used it in a mini-ITX Ryzen 7 5700g build and it is really a bit of overkill. But it was available and not at a a premium price.Nor five stars because the price for a PSU like this to get five it would also have to be cheaper.

Reviewing after using it for almost 6 months. So this will be a long term use review with my honest opinions and suggestions. May be this will be a bit lengthy but I will try to vover every aspect of it...1.Packaging- So the first initial impressions of a product comes from packaging but amazon did a very bad job for it. They delivered the item in the original manufacturer box with some stickers on it. That means no extra protection was included. So, bad to see such things from such big brands like amazon. And for that the box was little damaged while shipping. But thanks to Gigabyte who provided really good foam packaging material inside the box to protect the Power Supply. After all packaging was teribble.I found everything to be safe and brand new. No problems regarding that. We get the power supply with attached cables(no modular system in this price point), instruction manual and Power cord.2.Performance-Now lets talk about the main item the power supply. But before that lets talk about my system, I know you guys will think me crazy or stupid after listening what I actually paired with just 450w power supply. My PC configuration is Ryzen 5 3600 + Aorus Elite B450 + Gigabyte Gtx 1660 super 2x edition. So at first I know it requires atleast 550w power supply but trust me guys in this 6 months I never found a single problem with this 450w. As it is more capable of delivering high powers when required. That's why you should go with a good brand power suppply with good ratings.Now again coming to main products its really good with 120mm silent cooling fan. The fan never Ramps up in normal condition but when in load it ramps up but still not loud I must say. I like the build quality. There are many connector in this power supply. Starting with 24PIN ATX, 1*8pin CPU,2*8Pin PCIE for gpu,7 sata, 6 molex with 1 floppy connector. So overall it is nice. It is not a modular power supply but thats fine in this price point. Their is another version available of it with high watt rating of 550w, model is p550b. See guys this is great power supply with 80 plus bronze rating. Oh I forgot about the cable quality. Here is why it is better than Corsair Vs450, it comes with black flat cables. Every cables are black flat type so it gives a premium loook of PC. So after alll great for price that it comes, I got it for about Rs.3000. A great deal.3. Conclusion- Just go for it, no problem regarding any thing just keep in mind its is a non-modular power supply so you have to do cable management for extra cables. Otherwise no power supply in this proce point have such a great quality with such pros. It is better than Corsair vs450.Pros-1. Good Quality Material is used.2. Best Cable type(flat and black) in this price range.3. Many connectors available.(Rather than dual 8 pin cpu, only 1 8 pin cpu is their) .4. Good power delivery.5. Silent fan.6. Long wiresCons-1. Lots of wires fir cable management.2. Bad pacakaging.Thats it for now. If you like it thrn thanks. Hope it helps you.