Apevia SFX-AP500W Mini ITX Solution/Micro ATX/SFX 500W Power Supply

It works great no complaints

I never got to test this power supply but I completely forgot how high tier my build was and orders this too.

Lasted exactly 80 days...Was installed in a small NAS box, just a bunch of SSDs and HDDs, nowhere near the max power draw, CPU was barely utilized and no GPU.Suddenly the fan started making a terrible grinding noise, then after a few sudden reboots it never turned on again.This PSU is essentially e-waste, third party tier lists confirm it as well. Took a gamble, lost $37.

the first one I received had a fault somewhere that made it only output around 9v on the 12v rail so tbe system wouldn't post, I tried with a difrent non sfx supply and everything worked fine, I also tried this psu on a difrent system and still low voltage and no post, so I put in for a replacement because this was the only psu in this formfactor avalible in this price range so it was that simple, could I have shelled out for a stupidly expensive gold sfx from Silverstone or seasonic or corsair or cooler master, yes, did I want to literly put as much into tbe psu of this little usff server build as the rest of the build costs or close to it... absolutely not, so I put in for a replacement and Amazon being Amazon was absolutely on it and had me a replacement at my doorstep with 3days and the new one works fine, it's not the best and the little fan that could realy works up a sweet trying to tame a ~300watt load but hay I didn't expect much for less than $40 and it's stable, it passes a aggressively unfair stress test with no perceptible voltage drop on any rail, and when I'm not taking it to a blacksite torture chamber and just using it under regular loads it absolutely stands on it own feet, damn site better than the pico psu it replaced...to be fair that pico was rated for 300w and I'm pushing a 5600 with a slight OC and a rtx 4060 LP but in reality that should be more than around 200watts so idk it just struggled to deliver a stable voltage even while being pushed via 12v off a 1200watt hp ProLiant Via a mining breakout that is more than capable of delivering the requisite currents for almost a dozen other devices using either 12v like switches and routers and a firewall and a couple asrock deskminis via a beefy marine 12v to 19v boost converter, idk I guess the inductors on the pico were cheap or maybe the guage of wire from the 12v supply was to thin idk it probebly should have only been rated for a buck fity but hay in no matter now cuz this unjustifiably cheap sfx psu has replaiced it and now I can reliably power a array of 8 3.5in hdds in this server finaly lol...no this is not long term cold storage that I'm fooling myself with being acceptably safe with this ultra cheap psu no this a 8 fairly fast big enterprise HDDs in a complicated and admittedly conveluted lvm array with nvme pcie 4.0 caching that I can read and write to ad a clip capable of fully saturating a 10gb full duplex link... and for that purpose this little budget server that could...realy realy can lol

Needed this for a super budget SFF itx am4 3600 build with 3200mhz ddr4 and a old 3060ti. Something small, portable and can game. I know there's a mathematical way to predict how many watts you need. 500w seemed slim to me for what it was going to power. I took a chance on this. For only $36 I wasn't really expecting this to pull through. To my surprise no problems at all. Have gamed on this PC for hours no issue at all. Don't expect miracles if you have high performance parts, but if its a low power pc build this should do the trick, fantastic price as well.👌👍

Bought it for a small case in which I put an aging i7-2600 CPU running on a micro-ATX motherboard. Powers the CPU and motherboard and also the Geforce 1050 Ti card without breaking a sweat.

works as it should, nothing mind blowing, a simple power supply with non modular or removable cords, does as it should no problems.

The quality isn't there. But if you on a tight budget and need a PSU to tide you over till you can afford another, it will work. Till it doesn't.This is the second I ever used an Apevia PSU. The first Apevia I ever used was back in mid 2000s. Apevia Java Power 500w ATX. Needed a PSU with a PCIe power cord and a 4 pin CPU cord. It ran well for over a year. Then one day, I went to turn the PC on, nothing happened. Eventually, I swapped PSU and found it was the PSU itself. So.....that's been my experience with them. Only good thing is the box....still have it, using it to store components for my GameCube.So far it works. Upgraded my old itx case that came with a seasonic 300w sfx PSU. That unit is a trooper and still works. Just, upgraded the internals from a AMD A10 system to a Ryzen 7 5700G system. PC is mainly a HTPC. This Apevia comes with the needed available watts and 8 pin CPU plug I need. The last part, the old seasonic only came with the old 4 pin CPU plug. This unit also comes with a PCIe 8 pin, which is good for a low profile video card. Though I am not going to use one. Cords are easier to work with. Which is better than the old seasonic. Case is super tight with little room for low profile heatsink due to the DVD ROM located just above it.Anyway, been using it for nearly a month. Works well. No problems so far. Fan does whine louder than the rest of the fans in the system during high load. Like I said, PSU is good for a quick fix on a tight budget. Though, save up for a better one. I plan to replace it once it fizzles out. If I get a year or more, I'll get my money's worth. I am mentally prepared this time, so I'll be ready."Might update if things changes."