FSP Group Mini ITX Solution/Flex ATX 80 Plus Platinum 500W Pmbus V1.2 High Efficiency Power Supply (FSP500-50FSPT)

This review is for the FSP 500W 80+ Platinum without 6-Pin GPU PCI-E connector. Overall: I am using a 5USD 12V Molex to PCI-E 6-Pin adapter to use this power supply with a GPU. This power supply is awesome. I bought the Athena Power 500W silver before from Newegg and was very disappointed. The Athena is extremly noisy even in idle and geta very hot under load. The FSP instead is extremely silent in Windows 10 idle (Ryzen 2600, GTX 1060 6GB) and only revs up under load. Even under load though the FAN is definitely hearable but is a nice hum with a medium tone frequency. The FSP gets also very warm (not hot) under load. My guess with touching it with my hands is 40 Celsius) but cools down right away after load and the fan will also revv back down to very silent. My main rig is watercooled with a 750W Seasonic Platinum power supply which does not get warm at all. So my main build ia nearly dead silent. Even with that reference I am positively pleased how silent super small builds with mid range components combined with this FSP Flex ATX power supply can be. Would not have been possible a couple yeara back. PROS: Silent Efficient Sturdy casing A lot of power for such a small form factor Much better than the Athena Power 500W silver Cons Very long cables and in general too many SATA and Molex connectors -- an issue when you want to pack it into a small case and have to stuff the cables somewhere No PCI-E output

Works as expected, solved video driver crash as well as malfunctioning sd card reader due to bad psu. Fan IS loud though... even louder than the 730gt gpu fan, which I thought would be impossible. I recommend replacing the fan with something higher quality, if you're willing to void the warranty. It's not the wind noise that bothers me, its the "bad bearing" noise that does. It's a shame considering its higher end price for a 300w psu. Fits inside HP s5-1014, but only catches one screw. Smaller than oem.

I purchased this as a best-available replacement for a Liteon 'PS-5221-8AE' model power supply in my Acer Aspire H340 Home Server. The original part had failed (bad capacitors, dramatic interior damage) and I was unable to find a direct replacement. This item is an exact mechanical fit and there was even a non-ITX screw hole to which I was able to transplant a support bracket salvaged from the failed unit. In order to make it fit electrically I had to repurpose two strings of MOLEX connectors aby splicing them onto an Acer proprietary connector used to power the server's SATA backpanel. Otherwise the PSU was an electrical fit. Some of the other reviews alluded to a noisy 40mm fan in this unit. I have not noticed it any louder or more 'buzzy' than the fan in the unit I replaced. In fact, in my fairly quiet study I need to lean forward and concentrate to hear any fan noise at all. Other than that, what is there to say? It works. It fits. It's quiet. It solved my problem. Too soon to post about reliability but superficailly it seems well put together. Although i had to butcher the wiring the unit came with a good mix of connector suitable for small systems: ATX20+4 main power; 4-pin 12V; 2x Molex; 2x SATA; 4-pin floppy. Literally, standard stuff.

I'm not a big fan of the Flex-ATX form factor, but it DOES allow for some tiny builds. For me, that was an AMD 3700X and a 1660 Super on an x470 board; all inside of an SGPC K39 from Aliexpress which allows me to fit an entire gaming setup in my backpack. When I picked up my case, I had also purchased a random Chinese branded Flex-ATX unit which had a lot of good reviews... It worked well enough, but that was until I decided to do some heavy gaming at a LAN party, where the unit failed one me. So far, this FSP unit has not let me down. The price is a bit high for a 500W power supply, even a Platinum rated one, in terms of normal ATX units. That's kind of the thing though, you're going to pay more for Flex-ATX, and going the little extra for a nice FSP unit as compared to something from Aliexpress is honestly worth it. If you're reading this nonsense and considering this unit for your build, I'd say just go for it! For 500W Platinum in THIS form factor, and especially the brand, the price is really not that bad. You DO have to use a power adapter for the GPU though. I've got a double molex to GPU power connector, and that seems to be working well. This isn't a huge negative, but would be annoying to sit down and build and realize you don't have a power connector for your video card. Easy ~$8 fix on Amazon if you don't want to be bothered rigging one up yourself. And now... The fan noise. The fan IS quite loud at full tilt. When you first power up it will sound like a dang vacuum cleaner for a few seconds as it ramps down to a normal idle speed, which is nearly silent. Under light loads like a bunch of Chrome tabs, Discord, Coding, Image Editing, whatever non-gaming things you're typically up to; this thing is mostly silent in my experience. IT DOES get quite noisy under some more demanding gaming loads. However, my old Flex-ATX unit (the Aliexpress one that fried) was even louder with its stock fan as compared to this unit, and supposedly had the same wattage output, so the noise level on this thing isn't actually all that bad for Flex-ATX. The Noctua fan mod does help, my old one DID go very silent after I did the noctua fan swap that people recommend. I've heard of people doing the same thing to this unit, though I wonder if the airflow with the thinner fan wasn't the reason for my other unit failing, so I've yet to make the swap on this one. I would imagine you'd get that similar near silent performance, though the stock fan -is- better than other Flex-ATX units from what I've seen, and the fan noise is less of an issue altogether if you game with a headset. 10/10 power supply performance all things considered. If you're going Flex-ATX, you should DEFINITELY consider this unit.

Let's get the modding info/issues out of the way... FAN REPLACING/MODDING FOR HTPC OR SILENT HOMELAB: Fan information for FSP Group Mini ITX Solution / Flex ATX 80 Plus Gold 250W Power Supply...

I'm very disappointed on this power supply not supporting the latest audio codec. I bought this for my mini build itx. And I bought ASUS Z270i Strix motherboard with alc1220 codec. But then the front panel audio doesn't provide sound, no sound coming out from the front panel audio jack. I previously thought it might be the motherboard issue. Because of this, I've RMA more than 7 motherboards with ASUS. ASUS tried to help me find the issue by testing out before returning back to me. And for every motherboard that they send it to me they tested without audio issue. Then I found out it is the power supply issue by using another power supply from my old PC. I'm hoping that FSP might help me with this weird behavior only on my power supply. This is a 500W platinum power supply

Flex ATX power supplies are harder to research due to the fact that it is not something that many people buy. I bought this one for the 80 Plus Bronze certification. It is in a 1U rack case powering a mITX based PFSense build. The cables are pretty short, so it keeps clutter down. It has a 24 pin, a 4 pin CPU, 3 SATA connectors on one cable, and 2 molex on one cable. It is fairly quiet with just the faint hum of the fan when running. My build is very low power, so I don't know how loud it gets when under full load.

The product seems authentic (good) but came in some arbitrary packaging and the unit I got apparently was manufactured in 2021 based on its serial number.