Enermax Revolution 85+ 1050W Power Supply Review

Interior Impressions

Cracking open the Enermax Revolution 1050W reveals an extremely well-built setup which is supposedly rated to provide its maximum output at an incredible 50°C. As far as we can tell, Enermax doesn’t farm out the design and manufacturing of their power supplies. Rather, they do all the legwork themselves.


The trio of primary capacitors are 105°C rated Matsushita units which are bordered by a small PCB while the secondary filtering section holds Nippon Chemi-Con caps. All in all, these are top-tier components which go hand in hand with the high-end category this unit is priced in.


Next to the secondary side we have a vertical PCB that houses the fan controller components with one wire going directly toward the fan while the other runs to the exterior of the housing and serves as the fan monitoring wire.


The modular interface doesn’t hold any major soldering SNAFUs but a few of the components are held in place with some questionably inconsistent traces. It is pretty shocking to see even a minor issue like this in high end power supplies so we hope Enermax gets to work on their QA process. However, if this unit performs the way Enermax promises it will, these concerns could be flushed down the drain in record time.

Too many manufacturers forget two extremely important things: to sleeve the cables all the way into the housing and to then protect the cables from the sharp edges of the enclosure. Thankfully, the Revolution does both.


Much like the rest of this power supply, the transient filtering section is well appointed and the soldering shows only a minor amount of excess flash.


The 135mm fan used on the Revolution 1050W is a ball bearing-equipped unit rated at 1500RPMs. Hopefully, this power supply is reasonably efficient or this lower RPM fan may have some trouble keeping up with the heat produced by the internal components.