The Super Flower Zillion 650W 80+ White power supply is positioned as a reliable and efficient power solution aimed at budget-conscious PC builders and users. As part of the Zillion series, it typically represents a more entry-level or mainstream offering from Super Flower, focusing on providing essential features and stable power delivery at a competitive price point. The 80+ standard certification indicates that the unit meets a specific standard for energy efficiency, meaning it converts a good percentage of the incoming AC power into usable DC power for your components, reducing wasted energy and heat compared to uncertified units. This 650W model is designed to adequately power a wide range of mid-range gaming PCs and general-purpose desktop computers, offering sufficient wattage for common CPU and GPU combinations. While it is a non-modular design, featuring fixed cables, it incorporates standard protections and is built with quality components like a 120mm fan and often includes a Taiwanese main capacitor rated for 105°C, contributing to its expected lifespan and stability.

About the Company

Super Flower Computer Inc. is a Taiwanese company with a long-standing history in the power supply unit (PSU) market, established in 1991. While perhaps not as immediately recognizable to some as brands like Corsair or Seasonic, Super Flower is a highly respected name among PC enthusiasts and builders, particularly for their role as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for numerous other well-known brands. They have a strong reputation for designing and manufacturing high-quality, reliable, and often top-performing power supplies, especially their higher-efficiency lines. Over the years, Super Flower has consistently demonstrated innovation in PSU design, contributing to their positive standing in the industry.

Our PSU testbench upgrade

We finally manage to get a hold of SunMoon SM-8800 and are putting our own homebrew PSU testbench aside. the SunMoon SM-8800 features complete control over PSU loading down to 0.1Amperes as well as comes with inbuilt PSU ATX standard tests such as OPP, OCP, Efficiency, Power-Good (PG) Time, Hold-On Time as well as supports a variety of external equipment (which we haven’t bought as of yet) such as Ripple measurement module, Variable Input Voltage support, External function generator support.

Features of our test equipment:

The SunMoon SM-8800 PSU testbench we have acquired comes with auxilliary load box SM-220 of 1000W hence totally the capability to 1800W. Rev. 4.x comes with 2x 12VHPWR support hence the integration for ATX 3.x supplies is right on-board.SM-8800 features 10 total load channels for ATX specification namely 12V, 5V, 5VSB, 3.3V, -12V. The very basic loading channel selection is of 6 channels with two load channels dedicated to 12V. At 8 channel specification, the 12V rail loading futher expands upto 4 channels with a maximum load limit per channel set at 80A (upto which OCP is limited). While SM-8800 comes with its own dedicated Software for full-automatic batch testing, it is none short of features for those who prefer more precise manual control.

 

Super Flower Zillion 650W 80+ Standard PSU

As stated earlier this PSU comes with 105°C rated capacitors all across the primary and secondary side, with a minimum rating of 2000Hrs, we’ll dive deeper into the applied features and added safety concerns with this PSU by disassembling and noting the key components as well as safety characteristics built into this power supply. Let’s start with the basic detail with which Zillion 650W is shipped with:

Power Rating

Upon first look at the supply rating sticker, we instantly notice that the PSU features a single 12V rail design with maximum rated power of 588W while 3.3V and 5V rails are rated at 16A each with combined wattage of 100W. We’ll still explore in depth by limiting the load amperage on 5V and 3.3V rails to 7A each and loading the rest of the amperage into 12V rail when we’re looking at efficiency and quality paramters.

PSU Internals

Looking first hand after removing the fan cover, we notice that this PSU has group-regulated design. Considering that it is a budget PSU, that is acceptable if the outputs qualify for the quality. The main capacitor is TEAPO DG long-life series 420V 330uF 3000Hrs @ 105 Celsius which provides ample life for upto 6-10 years depending on frequency of PC use. This PSU also comes with two GBU806 rectifiers connected together in parallel allowing for sustained current of upto 16A which will never be reached anyway considering its only 650W PSU. The secondary side has electgrolytic capacitors from TEAPO as well as CapXon, both types of which are rated at 10% Celsius with 2000Hrs. Safety features such as surge protection, in-rush current limitation are also present. While the OCP, OVP, OPP are only experiementally verifiable, we’ll just check for the OCP and OPP for now.

Testing

Right off the bat, we connect the Zillion 650W to SM-8800 and start with manually applying load at 50% of power rating i-e. 325W and then we let the system slowly roast for about 5 minutes by running a stopwatch. At the completion of time we recorded our readings and found out that PSU even reaches 80+ Bronze standard at this specific load condition and holds an impressive 88% efficiency at 0.977 power factor at 230V input. We subsequently found out the regulation to be A-ok with 12V rail sitting at exact 12.0 volts, 5V rail at 4.97V and 5Vsb rail at 5.04V and 3.3V rail at 3.36V. These regulation paramters are more than acceptable in our case while ripple was observed to be 22.6mV at 12V rail, 16mV at 5V Rail and 13mV at 3.3V Rail.

We repeat the same pattern of testing by increasing load upto 100% which is exactly 650W combined for 5 minutes and noticed that the efficiency has dropped to 83.4% with power factor of 0.988 which is accetpable for 80+ Standard albeit it doesn’t match the Bronze now. The 12V rail is at 11.89 volts, 5V rail is at 5.07 volts, 3.3V is at 3.3 volts, 5Vsb is at 4.93 volts which are all accetable regulation paramters. Coming to the ripple measurement, the PSU exhibits good performance with only 37mV ripple on 12V rail, 18.23mV on 5V rail and 14mV Ripple on 3.3V rail.

Coming towards our last point of testing that is 110% load, we increased the system load to 715W and monitor the PSU output again. The efficiency in this case was 82.2% with pwoer factor of 0.992. Regulation is still stable across all rails within accetable output levels. We found out ripple to be slightly increased with 42mv on 12V rail, 19mv on 5V rail and 14mV on 3.3V rail.

Temperatures

We checked thermals of Zillion 650W only at 110% loading and observed by means of thermal camera. The rectifier at 110% load performed at 76 Celsius, main capacitor peaked at 80 Celsius. While the actual loading scenario will make these components alot cooler since this PSU being on budget as well as realistically the builds in which this PSU is employed do not exceed 350W or steady state power, the PSU will last more.

 

Our Verdict

Compared to Zillion 650W 80+ Bronze, the 80+ Standard Zillion 650W exhibits similar behavior, albiet at lower efficiency but holds up well. Thermals are little concerning but that too because of increased ambient temperature. Zillion 650W is in good books for us and an ideal system with which we are recommending this PSU is Ryzen 5 CPU paired with a 200W GPU such as RX 6750 XT, RX 7700 XT. Ryzen 5 CPUs hovering around 90W max power, this PSU is perfectly fine for such PC builds even the non-X AMD Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9 CPUs as well. The Ryzne 9000 series is one-up on the efficiency and we can safely use Ryzen 7 series including 9800X3D with this PSU though we’d recommend a superior quality PSU for such a flagship build. Zillion 650W proved to be a perfectly fine 80+ standard power supply with capacitors rated at 105 Celsius accross the board. The PSU comes inbuilt with OCP, OPP,, surge protection and inrush current protection, with applied APFC, this PSU is held back by a group regulated design which is also expected from the PSUs at this budget bracket. In Pakistan Super Flower Zillion 650W 80+ standard PSU is available at price point of 12.5-13K which is considered a good price for a 650W PSU from customer’s POV.

SM-8800 Test Report

We ran the comprehensive automatic test for the OCP and OPP protections as well as PG and Hold-On time verifications. The report is attached as below: