Montech is a slightly new participant within the PC Energy & Cooling market. The Taiwanese firm first appeared in 2016 and shortly made its presence worldwide. Montech is at present centered on designing and producing PC circumstances, energy provide models (PSUs), and CPU coolers. Because the core philosophy of the corporate was to be aggressive when it comes to pricing, the overwhelming majority of its merchandise have been focusing on the high-volume mainstream market.
Currently, in an effort to entice avid gamers and fanatics, Montech shyly started releasing high-end and top-tier merchandise. Not too way back, we examined the Century Gold 650W, an attention-grabbing high-quality PSU that was excellently balanced between high quality, efficiency, and worth.
Coming into 2023, the corporate is taking a giant leap of religion and releasing its new Titan Gold PSU sequence. The Titan Gold consists of high-output models designed for highly effective gaming methods, a totally new market phase for the corporate. In at present’s evaluation, we’re intently analyzing essentially the most highly effective unit of the sequence, the Titan Gold 1200W PSU. Apart from being a high-quality unit by itself, the Titan Gold comes with a leg up within the type of ATX 3.0 compliance, which makes Montech a member of what is nonetheless a reasonably unique membership for corporations with ATX 3.0 models accessible.
| Montech Titan Gold 1200W Energy specs ( Rated @ 50 °C ) |
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| RAIL | +3.3V | +5V | +12V | +5Vsb | -12V |
| MAX OUTPUT | 22A | 22A | 100A | 3A | 0.3A |
| 120W | 1200W | 15W | 3.6W | ||
| TOTAL | 1200W | ||||
| AC INPUT | 100 – 240 VAC, 50 – 60 Hz | ||||
| MSRP | $220 | ||||
Packaging and Bundle
Montech provides the Titan Gold 1200W unit in a sturdy cardboard field. The paintings on the field is simplistic and centered round an image of the PSU itself, however there’s loads of details about the specs and certifications of the PSU on the edges and rear of the field.
Solely absolutely the fundamental gadgets for the set up of the PSU might be discovered contained in the packaging of the Montech Titan Gold, with the corporate supplying only a energy wire and 4 mounting screws. There are not any cable ties or straps, or some other equipment to be discovered.
The Titan Gold 1200W ATX 3.0 PSU is a completely modular design, permitting for the elimination of each DC energy cable, together with the 24-pin ATX connector. Many of the cables have individually sleeved black wires and with black connectors, however the ATX 24-pin cable and the 16-pin PCIe 5.0 cable encompass black wires bundled inside nylon sleeving. The unusual factor right here is the presence of 5 PCIe connectors, as one of many cables solely has a single connector.
| Montech Titan Gold 1200W | ||
| Connector kind | Hardwired | Modular |
| ATX 24 Pin | – | 1 |
| EPS 4+4 Pin | – | 2 |
| EPS 8 Pin | – | – |
| PCI-E 5.0 | – | 1 |
| PCI-E 8 Pin | – | 5 |
| SATA | – | 12 |
| Molex | – | 4 |
| Floppy | – | 1 |
The Montech Titan Gold 1200W ATX 3.0 PSU
Exterior Look
Not like what most would anticipate from an organization that’s attempting to maintain prices right down to a minimal, Montech truly invested some assets into making the Titan Gold 1200W PSU visually enticing. The chassis cowl is punched to create a pure finger guard formed after the corporate’s emblem. Everything of the PSU is sprayed with matte black paint that’s extremely immune to fingerprints but in addition slightly straightforward to chip if mishandled. It measures 160 mm lengthy, which is 20 mm longer than what the ATX commonplace dictates, however we don’t foresee any compatibility issues with any fashionable case that’s meant to accommodate an above-average PC.
The sticker with the unit’s electrical certifications and specs is discovered overlaying a lot of the PSU’s high facet. A couple of quarter of the sticker is blue and should draw undesirable consideration if seen from a windowed facet panel. Each side of the unit have the corporate emblem embossed onto them.
On the rear facet of the unit, proper subsequent to the AC energy connector and the fundamental on/off swap, there’s a latching push button that controls the “smart-zero fan mode”. Because the identify suggests, this mode permits for passive operation whereas the PSU’s load is low – a regularly utilized method by many producers these days. Disabling it’s going to drive the fan to constantly spin so long as the PSU is powered on however its pace will nonetheless be managed thermally.
The entrance facet of the unit is host to the quite a few connectors for the modular cables. A legend and the corporate emblem are printed on the chassis. There’s additionally a sticker with the unit’s serial quantity.
Inner Design
Montech is making use of a 135 mm fan for the cooling wants of the Titan Gold 1200W PSU. The fan is made by Hong Hua, a well-liked producer amongst PC PSU OEMs. It has a fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) engine for quiet operation and longevity, but in addition has an especially excessive most pace of 2300 RPM.
The OEM behind the Titan Gold 1200W PSU is Channel-Effectively Applied sciences (CWT), which isn’t an enormous shock contemplating that Montech has been in collaboration with them for a number of of their higher merchandise, together with the Century Gold 650W PSU that we reviewed a number of months in the past. The shock right here is that, whereas we did not know this when soliciting PSUs for evaluation, the Titan Gold 1200W is utilizing the identical platform because the MSI MPG A1000G that we just lately reviewed as effectively. It’s an upgraded model of CWT’s hottest platform, barely tweaked so as to add ATX 3.0 assist. So this affords us a second take a look at CTW’s platform, working at a better wattage.
Total, the design of the Titan Gold 1200W relies on confirmed and comparatively easy topologies. The filtering stage is typical, with 4 Y capacitors, two X capacitors, and two filtering inductors, with two rectifying bridges on a large heatsink following proper after. The lengthy heatsink that follows holds the lively APFC elements. Two very massive capacitors, one 450V/680μF from Nippon Chemi-Con and one 420V/470μF from Rubycon, in addition to a large filtering inductor. The full capacitance of the circuit could be very excessive and can undoubtedly trigger a excessive inrush present that will trigger small or fast circuit breakers to journey.
Shifting on to the first facet of the primary transformer, we discover two transistors on a medium-sized heatsink, forming a typical half-bridge LLC inversion circuitry. The core of the secondary facet is on a vertical daughterboard, which is residence to eight energy transistors that convert the transformer’s output to the primary DC output of the PSU. The three.3V and 5V strains are being generated by way of DC-to-DC conversion circuitry that may be discovered on their very own vertical daughterboard. The secondary facet capacitors are all made by Nippon Chemi-Con and Nichicon.
