No bells and whistles, just juice
Nick Race27 February 2008, 10:28 PM
Seasonic is a brand that specialises only in power supplies. This Taiwan-based company has a good reputation amongst enthusiasts for high-quality, decently priced and very reliable PSUs — without the flashing lights.
Seasonic is a brand that specialises only in power supplies. This Taiwan-based company has a good reputation amongst enthusiasts for high-quality, decently priced and very reliable PSUs — without the flashing lights.
We’ve said it time and time again in APC; a good, high-quality PSU can save you endless grief when building a new PC. Always overspec, use a reliable brand, and never, ever use the ones that come bundled in a $30 case. A big difference between a very low cost and a premium supply is this: low-cost devices can support the advertised wattage as a ‘spike’ — let’s say up to 300W for a very short amount of time — versus a high-quality PSU that will sustain that 300W until the cows come home. The second difference is the device’s efficiency: how much of the power is wasted as heat as opposed to usable to the system.
The Seasonic X900 is a 900W branded power supply with a peak output (spike) at over 1,000W. It sports 80mm fans to keep it cool, along with Silent Fan Control to keep it quiet at the same time. It is ATX12V- and EPS12V-compliant and extra connectivity includes nine molex connectors, six SATA power and four PCI Express connectors for graphics cards, so it’s very SLI- or CrossFire-friendly.
It includes over-power, over-voltage and short circuit protection and a three-year warranty. If you want a simple, effective, high-quality power supply that will handle nearly everything you could fit in to a PC case, then you can’t go wrong with this.