Be Quiet! psu's

[MarcVenice]

Some hardware sites seem to be pretty positive about these psu's, but one of them tested it by trying to put as much load on it as possible using an opteron 180 and crossfired 1800xt's.

Didn't sound like a real test to me, so I'd like to know what caps are used in it and if anyone ever heard of one blowing up or whatever?

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Very limited info Marc.

What is the UL number?

Searched jonnyguru.com for bequiet and got a few hits. The bigger ones might be based on the Fortron Epsilon and would have OST on the secondary. Many did not like this fact and the fact that they went out of ATX ripple spec at full output.
Funny thing is that the Epsilon was reworked a bit for the Zalman HP unit and it stays within ripple spec.

I did not see BeQuiet here http://www.jonnyguru.com//SMPS_UL.htm

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
Some hardware sites seem to be pretty positive about these psu's, but one of them tested it by trying to put as much load on it as possible using an opteron 180 and crossfired 1800xt's.

Didn't sound like a real test to me, so I'd like to know what caps are used in it and if anyone ever heard of one blowing up or whatever?

here is a review from johhnyGuru`s site--
Dark Power pro600 -- Today I'm putting the Listan (be quiet) Dark Power Pro 600W to the test and seeing how it does. The Dark Power Pro 600 or as Listan calls it the BQT P6 Pro - 600W is a Topower P6 based PSU with active PFC. As such it's only designed for use in the UK and EU.


http://www.jonnyguru.com/review_details.php?id=27

SUMMARY:

The Dark Power Pro 600 is a really nice unit when you're not hung up on the price, the performance is pretty good up to the point of approaching 50C and even then it only loses under 2 watts of power. The 12V rails sagged from 12.3 volts to 11.8 from test 1 to test 5 but that's going from a 2A load to a 20A load and is still within spec. The ripple behaved itself nicely, never exceeding 50mV on the 12V rail under the worst conditions and the other rails also stayed well within spec. I am deeply in love with the overall look of this PSU, to the point that I wish that it wasn't 220V only. This makes me wonder why Topower never released a P6 based PSU for the states that had active PFC, I kind of feel we got cheated.

The 20A 12V rails should lend themselves to running a decent SLI (or Crossfire) setup but I wouldn't suggest trying to run X1900's or 7950X2's in a dual card config. 7900GT's, yeah, possibly but even then I'd be hesitant. &800GT's should be fine as should X1800's as long as you're not running a bunch of drives and other 12V paraphenalia.

The Good:

Good looks
Great wiring options
Long cables
Decent rails
The Bad

Expensive
220V only
Not available in the US
The Mediocore:

Did I mention it's expensive?

 

[MarcVenice]

Damnit, that's the dark power version, there's also the straight power version which supposedly is cheaper. Thanks for the info so far though 🙂