At the tail end of 2009 a relatively unheard of manufacturer by the name of Cougar sent their first 1000w retail PSU in to Overclock3D for review. While the 1000CM certainly looked the part, had great efficiency and managed to hold reasonable voltage stability across all of our tests, it harbored a dark secret..... more ripple than the Galaxy chocolate factory. Over 200mV of it to be exact.But what came next was quite a surprise. No onslaught of emails demanding a re-test/re-count, no "we'll send you 50 replacements to test, so you get bored and give up" and no "sommit for the Mrs" ploys. Instead, just a simple email from Cougar's UK sales exec thanking us for bringing the issue's to their attention and offering us the chance to review a revised model in a couple of months time that would have all of the issues ironed out.So here we are, it's 2010 and after a few months tarting up the Overclock3D website, I'm finally ready to put the revised model through its paces. In all honesty the normal process for performing a second test on a product would just involve updating the results, slapping on a disclaimer paragraph and calling it a day. But Cougar, a little sore from the previous review have requested that we take it right from the top on a clean slate. Fair enough in my opinion - everyone deserves a second chance after all. The only problem of course, is that I'm not quite creative enough to write two entirely different reviews about an almost identical product. So for those who have already read the previous 1000CM review, the feeling of de-ja-vu is to be expected.Anyway let's not waste any more time and instead jump straight into the specs...