There seems to be an ever-increasing number of companies trying to get into the PSU market. Often, though, all they're doing is rebranding ODM designs and passing them off as their own.

Cooler Master, however, is keen to reinforce its position as a provider of high-quality power supplies that are designed and made in-house.

Take the Real Power Pro 1250W as an example. It packs in gargantuan power and, pleasingly, is rated to provide 1.25kW at 50C. It sports the usual gubbins that define a high-end PSU - it's big, has six 12V rails that pack 28A on each line and offers a plethora of connectors that includes three eight-pin (well, 6+2) connectors.

[advert]As if further evidence of its impressive capacity were needed, Cooler Master had it running two high-performance systems concurrently. The first featured an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 (quad-core) processor, 4GiB of high-speed DDR2, WD's impressive Raptor X and a couple of wattage-sucking GeForce 8800 GTX cards in SLI.

The second, while not quite as powerful, only differed by the use an equally watt-hungry Pentium Extreme Edition 955 processor.

The obvious question is just what sort of kit would it take to push the PSU to its limit? An insane watercooling/TEC combo, we suppose.

Price and availability come under that nastiest of acronyms - TBC.