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Super Flower Leadex III ARGB Gold 650 W

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The Super Flower Leadex III ARGB Gold 650 W offers good performance, low noise output, and RGB lighting. It comes in two flavors, black and white, so you can match it to your case's color. If only the white version had white cables, too.

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Super Flower had great supplies a few years ago, but now extreme expensive with RGB :fear:
 
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PSU looks fine, and whilst I haven't bought a SuperFlower branded PSU in ages, I've used their supplies via other ODMs. I always have a soft-spot for Superflower as they were the company I turned to 25 years ago when aftermarket PSUs barely existed and the only PSUs you could easily get came preinstalled in a case. At some point in the Pentium overclocking days, I finally pushed the generic Chieftec/Chenbro unit too far and discovered how hard it was to buy a proper PSU. Enermax/Superflower were almost the only game in town back then....

Can we talk about their branding? Butterfly. Rainbow. Military font. Sans-serif font. Some old serif font. Italic and regular. Bold and regular. Wide kerning and narrow kering. A fifth font for the specs on the back of the box. Black warranty label and switches on a white enclosure. Generic black cables. The list of aesthetic booboos there is enormous and I'm not even done.

I'm not a graphic artist and yet basic graphic design knowledge has embedded itself in me simply through exposure to good and bad presentation. I wouldn't care if the box was ugly because that goes in the recycling bin, but the unit itself also needs some presentation work. It looks like a cheap, stamped-steel budget PSU with white paint as an afterthought and everything else just the generic black as always. For an RGBLED vanity build (not something I care about in the slightest) the physical appearance MATTERS. If you're not going to put the PSU on display you aren't in the market for a non-standard colour with RGBLED at a price premium.

So, IMO even though this is a decent performing PSU, it's a product failure - it's supposed to be a cosmetic showpiece as well as a PSU and it lacks class, consistency, style, and flair.
 

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There are 4*PCI-E in this 650W model.
6*PCI-E come with 750W & 850W models.
 
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Does the "EVGA SuperNOVA G3" units use the exact same platform with the "Super Flower Leadex III ARGB Gold 650 W" , besides the RGB features ? or are there other differences besides that ?
overall ,between those 2 Superflower-based platforms ,which one is the superior one when referring to build quality ?

( P.S. If i'm not mistaken , the older "G2" models were superior to the similar "Superflower Leadex II" when referring to capacitor-quality. )
 
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it is not the same platform. it is something in between. Performance is high, though, in the G3 units, as well.
 
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Which one should I choose between this and XPG core reactor at 650 watt and at the same price?
 
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