Tuniq Ripper 1000 Watt PSU
The Tuniq Ripper 1000W is a mixed quality but low price power supply for those higher end systems that require high wattage in a well certified PSU.
Ease of Use, Performance: 18/25
Look & Feel: 23/25
Features 24/25
How much I enjoy 24/25
Total: 89/100
The Tuniq Ripper 1000W power supply is your high wattage power supply with a good mix of high quality parts with a few medium quality that makes for a good overall power supply that is low in price. Currently on Newegg.com the Ripper 1000 watt power supply is going for $169 for the lower end of the price range for this wattage power supply.
The Tuniq Ripper 1000 watt PSU is a four 12 volt rail power supply with Active PFC that is 80 PLUS Bronze certified and SLI certified. The Tuniq Ripper has the 80 PLUS Bronze and SLI certifications for a well tested power supply by both NVIDIA and the 80 PLUS program which requires power supplies to be at least 80 percent efficient at 20, 50 and 100 percent of rated load.
The power supply has been tested and certified to be power efficient for the 80 PLUS Bronze and certified by NVIDIA to their specifications and quality diagnostic testing as an SLI Ready power supply. I have not done any testing on the Tuniq Ripper myself other than the temperature testing in my system as well as voltage testing of each rail and voltage.
I do not have any equipment other than a multimeter, a Fluke 75 series, to test a power supply to check its quality like some web sites. In order to properly test a power supply and check its loads as well as performance you need some very expensive equipment that is computer controlled and recorded.
Some reviews on the internet have the required testing and equipment and some do partial testing using load resistors but I will not be doing anything like that. I simply install the power supply in my system and tell you how well it installed, easily in this case, and features of the power supply to give you my opinion.
I also read up on the Tuniq Ripper and can tell that a couple of the other reviews found the power supply to be a good quality and well built power supply with a decent but not great DC voltage output quality. One website stated the quality of the DC output was well within the required specifications but was not a better quality so they would have lowered their rating due to this.
I found all voltages within specs, if they weren’t my PC would not boot, and that the power supply has plenty of good features but I do not have the proper equipment so cannot tell about quality other than what I see in the supply itself and read elsewhere. The Tuniq Ripper is a good power supply with well built components and a good layout as well as having the necessary components in the filtering to make a better input line voltage for the supplies use.
The secondary power of the supply has plenty of nice features including the individual voltage regulators for each rail so the voltages all have their own separate system of regulating the outputs. The Tuniq Ripper is a 1000 watt four 12 volt rail power supplies with Active PFC or power factor correction for in use power correction from the line voltage.
Other important technologies inside this high wattage power supply include three heat sinks to keep cooling at its optimum and a good filtering system in the primary power side of things. A 140mm fan helps aid cooling and is installed with a plastic baffle to help airflow through the supply and the supply can be installed with the fan up or down in systems.
The voltages of the secondary side are independently regulated to keep each voltage at its optimum so the output is the best you can get but the whole system does have a few tradeoffs to get the price down. Instead of some of the better known electronic parts suppliers having parts in this power supply there is a mix of really good components from well known and high quality manufacturers and a few parts here and there from lesser known companies.
While I do not recognize the companies on either side I have read on other reviews that a few parts are from a lesser known company that is not really well known. Not to say that they are a bad company nor a great one the one part I am talking about is from a little known company so not much can be said either way.
Aside from this part that is from a lesser known company many of the parts are from well known high quality manufacturers so the quality of the components is pretty good here. The Tuniq Ripper does have a good filtering with all the components you want without skipping on things to keep the price down on the primary side of the power supply.
The Ripper also has the three good heat sinks to separate and keep the heat down to a minimum in this higher wattage power supply. The heat is not a real problem as I found even with this larger and more powerful PSU in my system it did not raise the temperatures in my system by very much at all.
Installation went very well and the PSU has plenty of cable length to reach where needed in a full tower system with all the cables. The power supply comes with some extra adapters that I did not have to use but even with a system including extra hard drives or a lot of video cards you would be well covered in the connector side of things.
After installing the Tuniq Ripper I tested the Ripper’s heat dissipation and was pleased that it did not heat my system up by more than a couple of degrees. I tested using both idle temperatures and during stress testing using the OverClock Checking Tool to stress the system and RealTemp to see the temperatures.
During stress testing and idle using the Ripper and another Tuniq 550 watt power supply to compare the temperatures I only had a two or three degree higher temperature with the 1000 watt PSU. I tried installing the power supply with the fan both facing upward and downward and did not have any differences in temperatures inside my system with either setup.
The Tuniq Ripper performed well with temperatures and with the certifications I found the Ripper was a good power supply at a great price. I did not have any problems with the power supply over the course of a few weeks of use but could not comment upon the quality or performance other than in regular use in a PC.
Reading other reviewers testing that went well and was definitely above average I would consider the Tuniq Ripper a great power supply at its price. I highly recommend the Tuniq Ripper for a great power supply for higher end systems at a great price.