Seasonic 80PLUS Platinum Series 1000W Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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80 plus Platinum power supplies are here
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this is the Platinum Series of power supplies from seic which is a very
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creative name because it has 80 plus Platinum certification very creative
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Okay so we've got sort of a platinum theme to the overall look of the package
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sort of this like shiny whitish metallicy sort of thing going on let's
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have a look at let me see let's look at this side of
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the Box first so here we see the general specs this is an ATX 12vt or EPS 12vt
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power supply there's the dimensions 80 plus Platinum one of the first power
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supplies to obtain that certification it's got all your usual protections
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under voltage protection over current protection over voltage protection all
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that good stuff uh okay full range something something yep so it accepts
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all inputs whether you're in Europe or Japan or Canada or where ever the case
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may be all the connectors are here but we'll see that when we when we open up
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the box so you can see it can provide up to 996 Watts on the 12vt rail almost the
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entire rated wattage on the 12vt rail
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alone it is a fully modular power supply as you guys can see here and here's a
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little switch that says fan control hybrid and normal I wonder what that means I guess we'll find out as we move
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along with this unboxing so let's get the Box open first and we find a couple
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of things here our commitment to Quality 24hour service I was not aware that seic
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had 24-hour service but apparently they do they also have a 7-year warranty on
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this particular unit here is your owner's manual in a variety of different
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languages hopefully one of them is English oh look at this there's an 860
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watt available as well but we only have the 1,000 watt to show you guys so ah 80
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plus Platinum here let's see what they have to say check this out greater than
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9092 and 89% efficient at 2050 and 100%
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operating loads that is unfree freaking
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believable because you could almost call it 90 Plus at this point and it wouldn't
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be much of a stretch the uh the 80 plus program which was designed to make power
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supplies or to make consumers more aware of the
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efficiency of the role that efficiency plays in your power supply has uh has
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brought us a long way in the last few years because it used to be that uh you
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know a great power supply was 80 plus well now we have left that benchmark
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long far far far behind so we got a couple of accessories here including
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some velcro cable ties uh silver rather
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silver seic uh powered by sticker we've got some regular zip cable ties we've
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got a little screwdriver which helps you install these screws to install the
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power supply in your case we've also got some great closed cell foam padding
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that's going to keep it nice and protected we've got a oh that's gold
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marks off for that seic this is an 80 plus Platinum power supply
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n I'm just kidding it's fine okay we've actually got the power supply itself
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which I'm not going to show you yet okay so we'll put that aside for now and
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let's have a look at the modular cables that are included
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so here we go the first thing we're
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going to check out is the 24 pin connector so the 24 pin connector looks
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a little something like this okay there
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we go it's approximately sort of one Linus ARM length in length and it plugs
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in Via split connector on the power supply side and then it has a split
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20/4 pin 24 pin connector on the other
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side plenty long for whatever you might need it for we've got uh one of these
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single connector to dual PCIe 6 plus two
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pin connectors so you have one of those two of those three of
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those three of those for up to three-way
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SLI or Crossfire with high Hand cards natively and then we've got dual and I'm
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going to see how long these ones are cuz I'm a little bit on the Curious side
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here dual 8 Pin connectors so these ones plug into probably the same outlets on
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the power supply and then they go to an8 pin or a 4 plus four pin and these look
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like they should be plenty long enough at about one Linus ARM length to reach
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from your power supply in the bottom of your case to the top although you might
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need a bit of an extension if you have a particularly tall case with a bottom
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mounted power supply all right what do we got here
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lots and lots of different kinds of adapters so we got a MOX to dual floppy
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just in case you still need one of those we've got a three SATA cable we have
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another three SATA cable we have another
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three SATA cable we have a two SATA
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cable and that is it so three three SATA
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cables and one two SATA cable and then we have a 3 MOX cable a three Mox cable
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and a 2 MOX cable so that gives you all of your options in terms of mounting so
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I'm just going to take this box and this is going to help me as I tell you about
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some of the cool features of this particular unit so let's check out the
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physical aspects of it first so on the back we find the fully modular power
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supply and check this out so remove
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before use okay fine oh oh
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oh didn't say rip it in pieces before
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use but whatever so check this out hybrid or normal fan control so what
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hybrid fan control actually does is it allows the fan to operate completely
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silently up until about 30% load so it's
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actually going to take this very high quality fan which by the way is a San a
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sanoi fan so very very commonly widely
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known to be some of the highest quality fans available and it just turns it off
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because when when you're 80 plus platinum and you're only pulling about
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you know 330 WTS apparently this power supply
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with the heat sinks that you can see through the uh the grill here in the top
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with those heat sinks is capable of being passively cooled up to that point
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then the fan ramps up actually they've got a picture of the fan curve here so I
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might as well show it to you on the box so then this is fanless mode up to 30%
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up to 50% we're in silent mode so where the fan RPMs are you can see on this
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part of the graph very barely barely doing anything okay and then finally
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greater than 50% we're in cooling mode and that is going to ramp up the fan so
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you don't reach sort of 100% of your RPMs until 100% load and by the time
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you're actually pulling a, Watts through a power supply we're talking like dual
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GTX 590s you know heavily overclocked
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CPU bunch of drives this is a very very loaded system and it's only going to
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reach that kind of a load once in a very very very while so cic's also claiming
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tight voltage regulation plus or minus 2% which is way way way within the ATX
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specification so let's have a look at the rest of the unit here we've got our
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power switch we've got our power input we've got honeycomb grills which are
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optimal for the best airf flow okay moving over here we've got the 80 plus
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Platinum branding as well as the Platinum power supply series branding
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here on the modular interface side you can see we've got our motherboard stuff
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CPU this is an oh okay interesting okay so
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here is three PCIe those dual connector
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ones and and then okay okay okay okay here here here here here okay so I'm
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going to explain how this works so you can either have three graphics cards and
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then dual EPS connectors or you can have
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four graphics cards and a single EPS connector because that is the point of a
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modular power supply which many manufacturers by the way seem to have
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forgotten is that it should give you some kind of a choice in terms of which
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connectors you want to plug into it we then also have six peripheral connectors
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so you can use those for your MOX 4 pins or your SATA cables
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and that is pretty much it you also get to choose which fan mode you want I
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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
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normal mode which is not going to turn off the fan should you not desire it to
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do so although I cannot imagine why you would not want it to do that so in in
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summary it is 80 plus Platinum which is about as efficient as it gets these days
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has a very high quality fan which it if
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you prefer will just simply turn off when your computer is idling which means
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that this should be in theory pretty much the quietest power supply you can
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get short of cic's own X Series passive
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power supplies uh which I love and
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they're 80 plus gold so this is like even more lovable than 80 plus gold so
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reviews and other computer videos couple
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things we missed goldplated connectors are going to give you uh the best
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possible connection between the power
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supply and the motherboard so you've heard of people talking about things
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like where is it uh 24 pin burn where
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there's too much current being drawn through the 24 pin connector because you
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got a lot of graphics cards installed and a bad connection causes the uh the
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wires to actually burn inside whether it's on the motherboard or whether it's
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in the connector well gold plating remember gold is not actually the most
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conductive substance but what it is is it is malleable it is soft so it is it
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has a better chance of making a good connection between one thing and another
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thing than something that is not gold so that is something that I did miss
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another thing is that the capacitors in here are all solid caps and they are
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rated at 105° so that is definitely hotter than I hope your power supply
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ever runs but in the event that it does
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it is rated for it