The green-off

The power supply is packed in an eye-catching glossy afair. You'll find intense green tiling leaves accents with a hovering PSU on the front. The box is covered with large, almost childish writing that gives it to you straight; buy this product and it’ll be green (just read the slogan on the top – ‘good for PC … and environment’).

The Greenpower is a matt black affair with a matching 120mm black fan.

This power supply isn’t modular so you get a clump of cables, with a little bag of screws, a power lead and instruction manual. Also with the Akasa there are Spire-esque Velcro cable ties proudly displaying the Akasa brand.

The Akasa comes complete with not one, but two well-nigh useless FDD connectors. The Akasa has daisy-chained PCI-e cables which is a much neater way of connecting SLI/Crossfire up (or powering one energy-hungry 8800). It has 4 SATA plugs on two cables, and 3 molex’s on another two cables, the molex cables are quick-release for extra easy of install.

The PSU is ATX 12v 2.2 standard compliant meaning that it will work with the current systems out there (although it doesn't have the 8-pin PCI-e plug). It features the regular 20+4pin ATX plug offering compatibility with older systems as well as cutting edge rigs. All the cables are sleeved in black which matches the main unit colour.

The Akasa offers a split 4+4pin additional CPU plug (most people only use one) which can be used as one big 8 pin for servers

The back of the Akasa is the usual honeycomb affair although the switch and AC input socket are in odd positions. The large 120mm fan should help keep temperature and noise to a minimum.

The Akasa is ncie to the environment in another way, its RoHS compliant. This means that there won't be any hidden chemical nasties contained within.