What teir/quality is this ultra atx 850 watt

[Pc6777]

Traded some stuff on letgo for a hell of a good deal on some parts might swirch our the PSU in my main pc for this one is it good what teir is it?

[Mateyyy]

That's a 12 year old unit, and Ultra has been out of business for several years now.

What PSU are you using now in your daily system? It can't possibly be even older than this one.

[OrionFOTL]

That's a 13 year old PSU. It belongs in e-waste.

[5x5]

It belongs here

[Guest]

D1109 means November 2009.  LOL!

 

 

[SavageNeo]

what tier is it you may ask?

 

My answer is: NO

[Pc6777]

Right now I'm running a 600 watt EVGA w1 on an i7 6700k rtx 2060 and 16 GB ddr4 ram is overclocked cpu at stock 

[Pc6777]

It's really that old? Damn I still got a good deal even without the PSU but I was kinda hoping it wasn't a dinosaur lol

[Pc6777]

Is there a way to tell how old this one is? I also got this one today

[Boomwebsearch]

6 minutes ago, Pc6777 said:

Is there a way to tell how old this one is? I also got this one today

 

 

This one appears to still be in sale as of now, so it's likely way newer than the other one you mentioned in the original post of this thread:   https://www.evga.com/products/Product.aspx?pn=100-W1-0500-KR

 

It's not a really good PSU by any means (just passes 80+'s lowest tier of efficiency certification), although should be better than the other one mentioned for lower power APU systems preferably, what hardware are you planning to run off of it?

[Haro]

10 hours ago, Pc6777 said:

I also got this one today

the n1 and w1 are terrible, i dont recommend to use them.

 

10 hours ago, Boomwebsearch said:

It's not a really good PSU by any means (just passes 80+'s lowest tier of efficiency certification),

efficiency   is not quality and this is a terrible unit. 

Edited July 31, 2020 by TofuHaroto

[Pc6777]

I might run it on a GTX 1050 and i3 6100

[Pc6777]

7 minutes ago, Boomwebsearch said:

 

This one appears to still be in sale as of now, so it's likely way newer than the other one you mentioned in the original post of this thread:   https://www.evga.com/products/Product.aspx?pn=100-W1-0500-KR

 

It's not a really good PSU by any means (just passes 80+'s lowest tier of efficiency certification), although should be better than the other one mentioned for lower power APU systems preferably, what hardware are you planning to run off of it?

I know the w1 is for sale now but is there a way to see the manufacturer date on it like on most hard drives

[Boomwebsearch]

9 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

the n1 and w1 are terrible, i dont recommend to use them.

9 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

efficiency   is not quality and this is a terrible unit. 

 

I wouldn't recommend using the EVGA N1 series of PSUs for pretty much any build/upgrade, only could possibly recommend a EVGA W1 series PSU for extreme budget and/or low power APU systems.

 

26 minutes ago, Pc6777 said:

Right now I'm running a 600 watt EVGA w1 on an i7 6700k rtx 2060 and 16 GB ddr4 ram is overclocked cpu at stock 

Your 600 watt EVGA W1 is more than likely way better for that system than this 500 watt W1, although with this hardware and a rather new GPU such as the RTX 2060, I would recommend considering upgrading the PSU to something a bit better in terms of both efficiency and quality.

 

2 minutes ago, Pc6777 said:

I know the w1 is for sale now but is there a way to see the manufacturer date on it like on most hard drives

Contact EVGA and give them one or more of the product stickers on the PSU and they may be able to tell you when it was manufactured.

 

https://www.evga.com/about/contactus/

[Haro]

10 hours ago, Boomwebsearch said:

Your 600 watt EVGA W1 is more than likely way better for that system than this 500 watt W1

no it's the same terrible thing afaik.

[Pc6777]

1 minute ago, Boomwebsearch said:

 

I wouldn't recommend using the EVGA N1 series of PSUs for pretty much any build/upgrade, only could possibly recommend a EVGA W1 series PSU for extreme budget and/or low power APU systems.

 

Your 600 watt EVGA W1 is more than likely way better for that system than this 500 watt W1, although with this hardware and a rather new GPU such as the RTX 2060, I would recommend considering upgrading the PSU to something a bit better in terms of both efficiency and quality.

I wanted to swap the 850 watt for my 600 watt w1 till everyone told me how old it was, I would never switch my 600 watt for a 500 watt of the same model I'm keeping it were it is lol.

[5x5]

Just now, Pc6777 said:

I wanted to swap the 850 watt for my 600 watt w1 till everyone told me how old it was, I would never switch my 600 watt for a 500 watt of the same model I'm keeping it were it is lol.

The W1 and N1 are known for extremely poor quality and being very unreliable. They've even killed a few systems as reported in this forum. I would NEVER give anyone the ok to use those abhorrent EVGA units. They're basically Diablotek quality. Get a proper power supply before you destroy your system

[Boomwebsearch]

1 minute ago, TofuHaroto said:

no it's the same terrible thing afaik.

 

The hardware specifications that the OP has mentioned is going to put more strain on the 500W W1 PSU than the 600W W1 PSU and that is going to reduce the chances of something going wrong with the PSU and potentially taking one or more components of your system with it, and considering that we don't know how it was used bt it's previous owner/s, I would recommend staying with the 600W W1 for now until you are able to upgrade to something better (recommended).

[Pc6777]

11 minutes ago, Boomwebsearch said:

 

The hardware specifications that the OP has mentioned is going to put more strain on the 500W W1 PSU than the 600W W1 PSU and that is going to reduce the chances of something going wrong with the PSU and potentially taking one or more components of your system with it, and considering that we don't know how it was used bt it's previous owner/s, I would recommend staying with the 600W W1 for now until you are able to upgrade to something better (recommended).

thats what I am doing i was really hoping the 850 watt wasn't so old so I could have used that but oh well haha, and my system will draw like 350 watts max real world use and maybe 400 watts in an extreme senerio so I will have 200-250 watts of overhead at 100 percent usage in my system so the psu won't really be strained much even if its not great quality. i do doubt its diablotech quality tho,  I have seen a psu burn its pci cables out connecting a gtx 650 to a 6 pin so it gets a lot worse lol, but also a lot better.

[Pc6777]

is there still a risk to using the 850 watt ultra on a lower power system that wont strain it?

[Boomwebsearch]

20 hours ago, Pc6777 said:

is there still a risk to using the 850 watt ultra on a lower power system that wont strain it?

 

I wouldn't use it at all on any hardware that you value since it's more than a decade old and the company that makes it isn't in business any longer. It's also likely a group regulated unit since 768 watts or 90.35 percent of it's total rated wattage of 850 watts is on the 12V rail only, modern hardware utilizes lower voltage rails mostly such as 5V and 3.3V only things that really would use the 12V rail in a modern system would be HDDs and fans which often isn't much at all on most modern systems (with more power-efficient SSDs especially). If you enjoy tinkering with older systems that can be found as cheap as a few dollars to even free then you may want to still keep it, please make sure to use a surge protector on it at the very least if you do decide to use it, and if you don't want it then consider donating it to someone that may have a purpose for it instead of throwing it away which contributes to e-waste.

 

Learn more about the expanding problems with e-waste:

 http://www.electronicstakeback.com/resources/problem-overview/#:~:text=Most e-waste still goes in the landfill&text=The other 75% went to,e-waste in the landfill.