Asus doesn't deliver quality on the PSU side of things.
The electrolytic capacitor in charge of filtering the output from the active PFC circuit is Chinese from Samxon and rated at 85º C.
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Electrolytic capacitors from the secondary are all from Ltec and labeled at 105º C, as usual.
Crapacitors, as I like to call them. SamXon are known bad capacitors, as are Ltec ones. The Ltec caps are 105ºC but I've had to throw away too many of them to consider that something good. This is not a first, on the "tips for a long lasting PSU post", I had already mentioned some lower end ASUS models with crapacitors.
Efficiency isn't particularly impressive either, mostly around 78% but it's not bad either. LC Power PSUs carry a good price and Teapo capacitors, which have been proven very reliable lately. Given the low price, I would rather go with that.
Head over to Hardware Secrets for the review.
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