Overview
The 1STPLAYER STEAMPUNK 850W packaging is compact and kind of barren. The front of the package has a bit of information about this unit and a shadowed picture of the power supply itself on a black background. Besides a few advertising points, we see an 80 Plus Gold seal and a 7 year warranty seal. When we check the 80 Plus website we find that this unit was not listed at the time of testing.
The rear of the packaging has literally nothing on it. One side of the packaging has some of the same information that we saw on the front of the package. The other side of the packaging just contains the bar code and the certificates (as well as the fact that 1STPLAYER is the designer and Hell Technology is the manufacturer if we did not already know).
Overall, the packaging feels lacking just like the last time we saw a 1STPLAYER power supply. It is not that less is not more, it is just what is the less and how does it contribute to the more. Especially when the company is trying to break into a new market. That said, given that there was nothing about unit specifications on the actual packaging we had to look to the user manual once more. The problem is, however, that the power specifications were not in the user manual either. Ok, fine it looks like we go to the unit itself. Here, we find a very sloppy power table but we have deciphered it as best we can for you below.
It appears that the 1STPLAYER STEAMPUNK 850W is advertised as being a single 12v rail power supply with a capacity of up to 70A (or ~99% of the unit’s capacity) if necessary. The minor rails (5v and 3.3v) have a capacity of 20A each and the combined capacity of those two rails is 100W. Combined with these outputs, oh, hell…..I am just copying their table here since this is some lazy documentation without a table or summary.
Yeah, so connectors are whatever that says.
Once we open the 1STPLAYER STEAMPUNK 850W packaging we find the power supply, mounting screws, modular cables, the power cord, the “user manual”, and the “Smart Fan Control” card. From the “user manual,” it is impossible to discover which models this covers since it never says anything about models and it gives the worst information possible about semi-modular and fully modular units in a very general sense in 8 different languages.
Over the years, I have seen some terrible documentation but, usually, that is because it was lacking. Today it is terrible though because it is lacking and confusing. Woot, for a new award 1STPLAYER? Yes? No? Oh, hell, I don’t know. Let’s move on to something else. Maybe, anything else? It is happy hour at the bar right now…….. (Ed-No, you have to do the review, Paul)
Discussion (10 replies)
Join Discussion →That conclusion will likely go into the record books as one of the most severe beatdowns ever.
Thanks for the review Paul!
When I first saw the Overall Score box at zero, I figured maybe he didn't enter any scores in. Then I read the WHOLE article, and "Holy Hell" only puts it mildly. There were moments where I flat out laughed (Probably louder than needed but my lord).
I'm surprised there wasn't a graphic at the end with Mortal Kombat's "Fatality".
Ouch.
So, you are saying you probably wouldn't recommend this unit?
Also, for full affect sub Sh*t for crap in the review....some editing was needed for SEO reasons.
Depends on how much I hate the person I am recommending a product to.
I saw the zero and was hoping there was a photo of the unit on FIRE!!!!!!
I laughed a bunch of times reading this review. Made my day. "the Fail ship" is classic stuff.
Awesome review.
Wow! I wonder if it could be used to make popcorn.
I know I am 2 years late to this party, but is it possible the unit was defective? TPU awarded it "great value" and cultist gave it a B.
So, TPU, Cybernetics and Cultist all use the same test data set* and the incubator is set to 30c if I remember right whereas we set ours at 45c. ATX spec says the units should deliver their rated power up to 50c.
The Lian Li 850w SFX unit we reviewed before this, using the same Helly platform, with the main difference being a 92mm fan instead of 80mm ran, did very well on our tests, this unit popped. I think the fan spec made the difference in the result.
*In practice there are very very very few sites that have load testers and test methodology can vary between being different and being plain wrong. If you look hard enough, you'll realize most of the data out there is from Cybernetics and repacked/published for a number of publications (Anand, Tom's, Cultist, TPU, etc.).