80 plus Platinum power supplies are here
this is the Platinum Series of power supplies from seic which is a very
creative name because it has 80 plus Platinum certification very creative
Okay so we've got sort of a platinum theme to the overall look of the package
sort of this like shiny whitish metallicy sort of thing going on let's
have a look at let me see let's look at this side of
the Box first so here we see the general specs this is an ATX 12vt or EPS 12vt
power supply there's the dimensions 80 plus Platinum one of the first power
supplies to obtain that certification it's got all your usual protections
under voltage protection over current protection over voltage protection all
that good stuff uh okay full range something something yep so it accepts
all inputs whether you're in Europe or Japan or Canada or where ever the case
may be all the connectors are here but we'll see that when we when we open up
the box so you can see it can provide up to 996 Watts on the 12vt rail almost the
entire rated wattage on the 12vt rail
alone it is a fully modular power supply as you guys can see here and here's a
little switch that says fan control hybrid and normal I wonder what that means I guess we'll find out as we move
along with this unboxing so let's get the Box open first and we find a couple
of things here our commitment to Quality 24hour service I was not aware that seic
had 24-hour service but apparently they do they also have a 7-year warranty on
this particular unit here is your owner's manual in a variety of different
languages hopefully one of them is English oh look at this there's an 860
watt available as well but we only have the 1,000 watt to show you guys so ah 80
plus Platinum here let's see what they have to say check this out greater than
9092 and 89% efficient at 2050 and 100%
operating loads that is unfree freaking
believable because you could almost call it 90 Plus at this point and it wouldn't
be much of a stretch the uh the 80 plus program which was designed to make power
supplies or to make consumers more aware of the
efficiency of the role that efficiency plays in your power supply has uh has
brought us a long way in the last few years because it used to be that uh you
know a great power supply was 80 plus well now we have left that benchmark
long far far far behind so we got a couple of accessories here including
some velcro cable ties uh silver rather
silver seic uh powered by sticker we've got some regular zip cable ties we've
got a little screwdriver which helps you install these screws to install the
power supply in your case we've also got some great closed cell foam padding
that's going to keep it nice and protected we've got a oh that's gold
marks off for that seic this is an 80 plus Platinum power supply
n I'm just kidding it's fine okay we've actually got the power supply itself
which I'm not going to show you yet okay so we'll put that aside for now and
let's have a look at the modular cables that are included
so here we go the first thing we're
going to check out is the 24 pin connector so the 24 pin connector looks
a little something like this okay there
we go it's approximately sort of one Linus ARM length in length and it plugs
in Via split connector on the power supply side and then it has a split
20/4 pin 24 pin connector on the other
side plenty long for whatever you might need it for we've got uh one of these
single connector to dual PCIe 6 plus two
pin connectors so you have one of those two of those three of
those three of those for up to three-way
SLI or Crossfire with high Hand cards natively and then we've got dual and I'm
going to see how long these ones are cuz I'm a little bit on the Curious side
here dual 8 Pin connectors so these ones plug into probably the same outlets on
the power supply and then they go to an8 pin or a 4 plus four pin and these look
like they should be plenty long enough at about one Linus ARM length to reach
from your power supply in the bottom of your case to the top although you might
need a bit of an extension if you have a particularly tall case with a bottom
mounted power supply all right what do we got here
lots and lots of different kinds of adapters so we got a MOX to dual floppy
just in case you still need one of those we've got a three SATA cable we have
another three SATA cable we have another
three SATA cable we have a two SATA
cable and that is it so three three SATA
cables and one two SATA cable and then we have a 3 MOX cable a three Mox cable
and a 2 MOX cable so that gives you all of your options in terms of mounting so
I'm just going to take this box and this is going to help me as I tell you about
some of the cool features of this particular unit so let's check out the
physical aspects of it first so on the back we find the fully modular power
supply and check this out so remove
before use okay fine oh oh
oh didn't say rip it in pieces before
use but whatever so check this out hybrid or normal fan control so what
hybrid fan control actually does is it allows the fan to operate completely
silently up until about 30% load so it's
actually going to take this very high quality fan which by the way is a San a
sanoi fan so very very commonly widely
known to be some of the highest quality fans available and it just turns it off
because when when you're 80 plus platinum and you're only pulling about
you know 330 WTS apparently this power supply
with the heat sinks that you can see through the uh the grill here in the top
with those heat sinks is capable of being passively cooled up to that point
then the fan ramps up actually they've got a picture of the fan curve here so I
might as well show it to you on the box so then this is fanless mode up to 30%
up to 50% we're in silent mode so where the fan RPMs are you can see on this
part of the graph very barely barely doing anything okay and then finally
greater than 50% we're in cooling mode and that is going to ramp up the fan so
you don't reach sort of 100% of your RPMs until 100% load and by the time
you're actually pulling a, Watts through a power supply we're talking like dual
GTX 590s you know heavily overclocked
CPU bunch of drives this is a very very loaded system and it's only going to
reach that kind of a load once in a very very very while so cic's also claiming
tight voltage regulation plus or minus 2% which is way way way within the ATX
specification so let's have a look at the rest of the unit here we've got our
power switch we've got our power input we've got honeycomb grills which are
optimal for the best airf flow okay moving over here we've got the 80 plus
Platinum branding as well as the Platinum power supply series branding
here on the modular interface side you can see we've got our motherboard stuff
CPU this is an oh okay interesting okay so
here is three PCIe those dual connector
ones and and then okay okay okay okay here here here here here okay so I'm
going to explain how this works so you can either have three graphics cards and
then dual EPS connectors or you can have
four graphics cards and a single EPS connector because that is the point of a
modular power supply which many manufacturers by the way seem to have
forgotten is that it should give you some kind of a choice in terms of which
connectors you want to plug into it we then also have six peripheral connectors
so you can use those for your MOX 4 pins or your SATA cables
and that is pretty much it you also get to choose which fan mode you want I
think I mentioned that a couple times but I think that's really cool you can go in hybrid mode or you can just go in
normal mode which is not going to turn off the fan should you not desire it to
do so although I cannot imagine why you would not want it to do that so in in
summary it is 80 plus Platinum which is about as efficient as it gets these days
has a very high quality fan which it if
you prefer will just simply turn off when your computer is idling which means
that this should be in theory pretty much the quietest power supply you can
get short of cic's own X Series passive
power supplies uh which I love and
they're 80 plus gold so this is like even more lovable than 80 plus gold so
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things we missed goldplated connectors are going to give you uh the best
possible connection between the power
supply and the motherboard so you've heard of people talking about things
like where is it uh 24 pin burn where
there's too much current being drawn through the 24 pin connector because you
got a lot of graphics cards installed and a bad connection causes the uh the
wires to actually burn inside whether it's on the motherboard or whether it's
in the connector well gold plating remember gold is not actually the most
conductive substance but what it is is it is malleable it is soft so it is it
has a better chance of making a good connection between one thing and another
thing than something that is not gold so that is something that I did miss
another thing is that the capacitors in here are all solid caps and they are
rated at 105° so that is definitely hotter than I hope your power supply
ever runs but in the event that it does
it is rated for it