Introduction:

   In today's furious power supply market, it seems as though everyone from mom & pop shops to major worldwide manufacturers are on the power supply train. However to have a good seat on that train, you'd better be carrying a deadly combination of high power and drop dead good looks.

   Whether you buy a new power supply already sleeved or you plan to sleeve it yourself, it's almost inevitable that the power supply in your next rig will be sleeved from tip to tip. That's a lot of sleeving, but more importantly, that's a lot of voltage wires hidden to the eye. There's no way to tell if there's any damage to the wires, or if a wire has been crossed.

Specifications:

A Closer Look:

   The product I have for you today will test all the critical lines on your power supply BEFORE you even put that power supply into your system. That product would be the Coolmax 24-pin Power Supply Tester sent in from our friends at Performance-Pcs.

    Do you have any idea how easy it is to cross a wire while doing a cable sleeving job? I tell you it's extremely EASY to mess up a cable sleeving job no matter how much you try not to mess up. Do you have any idea what a single crossed wire could do to your system? I'll answer that for you: Up to and including full system meltdown!

   I know, I know, you're "too good for that". You "take all the pre-cautions". You've done them a "million times". Well one un-checked sleeving job enters the universe of the hardware world in your rig and it could be up in smoke in seconds.

   The mantra of "it's better to be safe than sorry" doesn't ring any truer than when it comes to pre-testing your power supply to ensure the lines are clean from errors or potentially destructive cross currents BEFORE it enters your case and connects to the very sensitive components that make up today's rigs.

Conclusion:  

    We recently published a PSU Tester Shootout and unfortunately this item did not make it into that comparison. However had it made it into that comparison, it most certainly would've been in a tie for 1st place since it's a twin to the winner and obviously manufactured by the same people. What's that mean to you? It means that this is one of the best, and most complete,  power supply testers currently on the market!

   VH awards the Coolmax 24-pin Power Supply Tester an Editors Choice Award with a rating of 10 out of 10.

   It's clean and crisp design brings in a new era of easy to use power supply testers for everyone. With items like this on the market for less than $20, there's no excuse to fry a system anymore from a bad power supply. This unit should be in every PC builders tool chest.