CeBIT 2008 Day 3 - PSUs and Cases
by Christoph Katzer on March 6, 2008 5:00 PM EST- Posted in
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Introduction
Today we will be looking at new products in the power supply and case markets. We have seen many new power supplies from various manufacturers, which is definitely a good thing. Even though we did not find new innovative PCB designs, FSP (Fotron Systems) came up with a clever PCB that will reach higher levels of efficiency. In general, we saw even more companies going with Channel Well (CWT) for their PSU manufacturing; this is not really a good development for the user since we now have numerous high-end brands that now offer similar products, the only difference being a few changed caps and the exterior.
We have heard from several companies that it's currently difficult to find a really good PSU vendor, since most of them have severe problems with ripple and noise for example. Each company needs to tweak their models quite a bit so that they can provide a decent quality level. Still, there were some surprises in the power supply field this year, the chief surprise being quantity. At former shows we never saw so many new product introductions; in the past, nearly all PSU companies already did that online a month prior to CeBIT.
Now let's look at what the various companies had to show this year in the case and power areas.
Cooler Master
Cooler Master introduced a completely new lineup of power supplies. The new products are marketed under the Silent Pro, Ultimate Warranty Protection, and Extreme Power M brands. The Silent Pro series comes with lower wattages of around 450W-700W. A bigger eye-catcher is the Ultimate Warranty Protection series, or UWP.
UWP comes in an innovative design and aims for the higher-end users with around 700W-1100W. The surface of the power supplies comes with a rough texture and could be used as sand paper. Most of the power supplies we saw at the Cooler Master booth were modular, allowing the user to unplug unused cables. The efficiency should also be good, with Cooler Master brochures showing up to 86%. The release date will be in the June timeframe, so don't expect these PSUs for a couple more months.
Corsair
Over at Corsair we met up with George, who explained the hassle of getting a good manufacturer to help produce an even better product. Corsair just released the HX1000W, which is the first 1000W PSU certified for NVIDIA's 3-way-SLI. It of course comes with all the necessary connectors and looks similar to the previously released power supplies of Corsair. It will be available soon (within the next month it appears) and we are looking forward to reviewing our sample.
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xsilver - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
yes I understood the comments, I was just referring to the fact that many people may be selling their 300w antec phantoms or 500w antec phantoms (which has a fan BTW) because of the belief that they need more power. This would allow someone to score these used psu's CHEAP.I think for psu manufactuers they have to always think of worst case scenario's so even a 300w fanless psu has to work well in the middle of arizona with no AC i think. If you live somewhere cooler, the chances of it overheating are much less?
poohbear - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
cant they make it passive w/ the advent of heatpipes?xsilver - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
the antec 300w was completely passive AFAIK and through a quick google search there seems to be a silentX model the is supposedly 450w completely passive.zalman has some psu's that have heatpipe heatsinks inside but they also include a fan.
I think also part of the problem is that passive psu's require a premium price, people willing to pay premium price for a psu are sadly people that only run high end systems. Therefore require more POWER (or at least the perception of more power) and therefore the efficient passive psu's have stagnated.
legoman666 - Thursday, March 6, 2008 - link
what's with the tiny 85x85 thumbnails? I can't even tell what I'm clicking on.JarredWalton - Thursday, March 6, 2008 - link
The thumbnails are all standardized from our gallery feature (first added for CES 2008). If you go into the galleries, you can get a better view of the images, naturally, and they won't be stretched/skewed. The galleries are really good for trade shows, as they provide us with a to quickly get images on the site without the need to manually resize and crop each image, plus create a thumbnail, hyperlinks, etc. They are not "perfect" but there's a need to balance functionality with rapid delivery of content and ease of use.mindless1 - Sunday, March 9, 2008 - link
I think the point is that they're inadequate, should be larger and/or an (imaging editor command) softend before resized, but ideally in the broadband age just presented in a more realestate-appropriate resolution. If I wanted thumbnails I'd do a google image search. Remember, most people today aren't running 1024x768 resolution anymore.ebuyings0005 - Friday, September 4, 2009 - link
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