In the Zone ... Tagan ITZ 1300 Watt Power Supply

INTRODUCTION

Over the last two years the power supply for the computer enthusiast's most prized possession has moved from a level of virtual obscurity to an element of key importance. No longer will a reasonably inexpensive 400 Watt power supply that produces relatively clean power satisfy the insatiable appetite of all your system's components. This is due in no small part to the major changes in architecture that both the current day CPU and GPU have undergone.

The vast majority of enthusiasts are running at minimum a single dual core processor and quite a few are utilizing quad core variants. This processing power is complemented by anywhere from one to as many as four GPUs each requiring higher levels of power to function at optimal capacity. For good measure toss in up to half a dozen SATA or SCSI drives running in one or more RAID arrays, a couple of other PCI or PCI-e cards, four to eight 120mm fans for optimal cooling, miscellaneous USB devices, and a few other unmentioned goodies. Mix all these components together and you've got one power hungry monster on your hands.

Today, we at Bjorn3D are going to be reviewing one of the latest solutions reputed to satisfy the needs of these power hungry systems; the Tagan TG1300-U33 ITZ 1300 Watt power supply. Our pre-review enthusiasm for this product went through the roof when we learned that the engineers at ABS Gaming Labs certified this power supply for the most extreme gaming rigs needing ultra performance. By the way ITZ is an acronym for "In the Zone" and suggests the level of performance the extreme gamer and/or enthusiast should be able to enjoy with the ITZ 1300. Please join us as we explore this product's features and capabilities in great detail and determine whether this product truly brings the goods to the table.

Tagan: The Company

The spirit and philosophy of TAGAN´s birth: To carry out state-of-art technologies for the best quality power supplies and to offer them to all users.

Our simple reason to give TAGAN’s birth:

We are a group of professional technical guys living in different countries –Germany, Japan and Silicon Valley (USA). All of us have had a couple of negative experience implementing Power Supply (PS) into systems. It is frustrating, time consuming and risky! By a very valuable opportunity, 2001 in Taipei`s Computex show, all of us met each other at a dinner party, we occasionally sat together and discussed about the power supply problems.

Based on our professional background and know-how, we suddenly all decided to study more about power supply and conduct some testing for finding out the best one. After almost a year`s teamwork in discussion, design, and developing, our team of international experts have designed some of the best and reliable power supplies for the PC as well as all the various systems. Consequently, all of us have become the founders of TAGAN. We are more than happy to share these products and experiences with you.

TAGAN´s strongest foundation - The best international professionals

• The best power supply thermal-cooling and low-noise professional from Germany
• The best power supply design professional from Japan
• The best system-level power supply technical advisor from Silicon Valley (USA)
• The best power supply manufactures from Taiwan and China

TAGAN offers - The power supplies state-of-art technologies

• Quiet enough! To make you sometime forget a power supply is working in your system
• Cool enough! Not only cool the power supply itself also cool your system
• Durable enough! So we can grant 36 month of warranty without problems
• Efficient enough! To save your cost and energy
• Low radiation emission! To protect your health and environment.
• Value for your money! EMI Shield, PCI-Express socket capacitor, and many extras.

That is why TAGAN is coming to serve you!!