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11-28-2019: Updating this 2-year-old review to 5 stars. EVGA has, back in 2018, extended the DEFAULT warranty of this PSU to 10 years, only requiring proof-of-purchase to validate. And without that, you still get 3 years. This is excellent and why I'll continue buying their stuff. That plus 4 years without a hiccup and reliable operation without the (admittedly loud) fan ever going on made me want to follow up and update the score. With over 5,000 reviews now who cares I guess, but I wanted to be fair. Thanks, EVGA! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Over 3,600 reviews on this already so why add another? Because there are two things you need to know in addition to the fact that the power supply itself is bulletproof and basically flawless when measures on an oscilloscope: 1) YOU ONLY GET THE 10 YEAR WARRANTY IF YOU REGISTER WITHIN 30 DAYS 2) The fan is very loud I bought this based on a couple primary factors, which were EVGA quality and customer service and the fact that the ECO mode lets this operate with 0 RPM fan when the power draw is under ~50% rated value (mine kicks on at about 350 watts in ECO mode). First, the warranty issue. By itself I would think that having to jump through the minor hoop of registering a product to get the best warranty is totally acceptable. Seems reasonable, right? However, EVGA's normal warranty is that if you own their product you get the full warranty. This is a great thing and makes getting service for your EVGA product, even if you bought it second hand, incredibly easy. Kudos to EVGA for doing business this way. My mistake for thinking that applied for the 10 year warranty offer here, but that's not the case. You must register within 30 days to get 10 years, otherwise you lose *7 years of warranty and just get the standard 3 year warranty.* That's a HUGE loss. And it's not like there's not bright yellow insert in the package as a reminder. I only found out about this when going to register it along with my another EVGA product I had just purchased (loyal customer, here!). Major, major disappointment and a huge fail on EVGA's part, in my opinion. Consider yourself warned! Fan noise. I bought this purposely to be more than 2x what I needed so that the fan never kicked on and that the efficiency was optimized (roughly 50% load is most efficient on most PSUs), but I didn't think that if I needed the fan to run it would be so loud. It's the loudest part of my build unless the GPU is running full tilt, and even then it's a close contest. It doesn't sound broken; it's just honest, air-moving loud fan noise. But I have never heard a PSU fan be this loud. I had a 650 watt Corsair unit once that was so robust it survived and worked fine 24/7 while being completely filled with alkali dust in a desert environment, and you couldn't even hear the fan with your ear 6 inches away. I've heard a 1200 watt Seasonic unit that was quieter while moving a lot of air. Not sure what the deal is here but do not buy this if you are looking for silent computing unless you did what I did and purposely designed for ECO mode to always be functioning. I've still given this 4 stars. Much love to EVGA and I will continue to buy their excellent products. But be warned on these two items if you care about getting your full warranty or fan noise.