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Trouble finding 1200W modular PSU

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Undercover_Man

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Hello. I'm looking around for a 1200W PSU. I had the Ultra X4 on my list for the longest time until I ran into a review that went in-depth and tested its claims and failed in some key places.

So I've been trying to locate a modular 1200W PSU and I can't seem to find any. I also don't know all the reliable PSU manufacturers so I'm most likely missing some.

Any help would be awesome.

~ Undercover_Man
 
Off the top of my head the Silverstone 1200w comes to mind, it is modular - http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=ST1200. I saw it for sale at newegg, but it's $300 which is quite a lot. I personally use the corsair 1000w modular power supply, which has gotten excellent reviews and is a good bit less. It powers the rig in my sig with plenty to spare, so you may consider a bit less power. Silverstone also offers 1000w modular supplies which are cheaper as well, and have gotten good reviews. Others will chime in for sure, but that's my 2 cents ;)
 
Yah, I just remembered Antec and looked at their 1200W Quattro. Seems like they passed the technical review with flying colors.

I don't like their capacitors at the end of the cables though especially when they had room to put them in the power supply.

I also don't like how the sleeves don't go all the way. That's a stupid move IMO. "Hey, let's sleeve our cables but leave an inch or so of exposed, multicolor cables" :rolleyes:. However, I can easily remove them and properly mod better ones on.

I also don't like how they half assed the whole modular thing. They hard wired a whole bunch of cables that won't even be used. Uh, the whole point of the modular wiring concept is to get rid of unused wires. :rolleyes:. However, going old school and tucking them away somewhere hidden will be a lot easier than in the past since there won't be nearly as many wires to hide like before.

I'll look at Silverstone next and take another look at Enermax because I think I liked that one too even though they had some hard wired cables as well. I think Thermaltake has PSU's but I don't know how high wattage-wise they go and how reliable they are. I'll have to look at reviews.
 
The reason there aren't many modular 1200W PSU's is because rigs that actually need anywhere near 1200 watts will employ almost all of the cables anyway, and the ones that don't need that much power would be better served with a lower-output supply running in its peak efficiency range. The two markets just don't overlap.

That said, the higher-end ToughPowers are quite good, as are just about all units based on Channel Well's PUC platform.
 
Hah, I think I fell in love with an overkill PSU. I didn't want to really look for anything above 1200 because, well, I dunno, but I haven't found anything that has passed such tests. I think I might go with the all mighty Silverstone Strider ST1500.

Yeah, that's 1500W's of power!!! Way more than I need, but none of the 1200's, fully nor partially modular, passed tests with such grace as this 1500W behemoth. I guess you could say it's *REALLY* future proof. I'll prolly use this thing for the next 2 upgrades. But I dunno, that's what I said about my 500W :rolleyes:

I'll keep on looking at 1200W power supplies but I don't think I can beat this one.

To give you an idea of what kind of power my system will need, I'll be using TWO overclocked Radeon 5970's in 3 monitor eyefinity mode, an overclocked i7 920 to somewhere between 3.GHz6-4GHz or greater, an aircooled system which will be upgraded to a watercooled system, and prolly TWO 1TB's of hard drive (double if I decide to RAID, that's 4TB's total). And I'll be using the 4-way Classified mobo and 2 blu-ray optical drives and X-Fi Champion series sound card.

So yah, all that and some other small stuff plus whatever the future has to throw at me. This should last me for a while which brings me to a point that wasn't discussed in the reviews I saw.

I wonder what kind of warranty is included and the quality of customer support this company provides. I haven't been able to find any info on the warranty on their website. Has anyone had to deal with this company relating to PSU's? :confused:
 
I have done a number of builds using the Enermax Galaxy Evo 1250 Modular http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817194046

I used this to power a dual Xeon server motherboard with 5 Video cards. Yes you heard right. 4 Nvidia Tesla C1060 GPU Computing cards and a GTX 285. Not to mention system fans, 3ware raid controller, and 8 enterprise level hard drives.

It comes with enough cables stock to support 5 GPU's. Pretty amazing stuff if you ask me, even if it is a bit on the pricey side.
 
Undercover_Man said:
I don't like their capacitors at the end of the cables though especially when they had room to put them in the power supply.
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The reason the capacitors are placed at the ends of the cables is because there wasn't room to put them inside the PSU.
 
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