Originally posted by: Pabster
Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
The Corsair 620W has more amperage on the 12V rail, a longer warranty and is quieter.
The construction is the same, same grade of components, same efficiency, same OEM.
Also the Corsair is modular. Which to some people is a "bad thing," but not for me.
The PCP&C comes with Mr. Dobson's FUD.
PS: That's not to say that all Seasonic OEM's are the same. The Antec NeoHE and Trio are also made by Seasonic but are of significantly lower quality.
Just out of curiousity...have you actually reviewed the PC P&C Silencer 610?
No. Want to send me one?
I've seen the internals and the specs and I've spoken with people that bought them, that are happy with them, that won't let me "borrow" them for a few moments.
But the PCB is the same as the Corsair and the primary and secondary caps are the same make/spec as the Corsair. Probably the M12 too, but I won't know that for sure until mine comes later this week.
I know, I know. The general consensus is that PCP&C touches the PSU housing with the royal sceptre and suddenly the PSU is the greatest thing on the face of the Earth, but that's never been the case with previous Seasonic and Sparkle built Silencers.
One thing I'll give credit to PCP&C credit for is not lying about the single/double/triple 12V rail thing. When my Antec Trio blew up I opened it up to find that all of the 12V rails were grouped up into only two sets of wires (12V1 and 12V2.) So 12V3 was a lie. Then I loaded up one connector to 30A. Then another to 40A. No limiter. No OCP. Again, a lie. Not that there's anything wrong with single 12V rails because of the problems with powering high end Crossfire, SLI, multiple HDD's, etc. But on Antec's website it says, "Three 12V output circuits provide added system stability" and "three +12V rails allow you to distribute your power more evenly, which will result in
a more stable system." which is "lie" and "lie."
So you get all of the advantages of a single 12V rail, none of the advantages of multiple 12V rails.. but the fluff on the website leaves you with such warm fuzzies. Doesn't it?
So then Hardware Secrets took apart a Corsair, found the same thing.. that there's only two rails and no OCP on either. So I took my HX520W and loaded up one connector with a 30A load and it kept on trucking. Again, good thing. But the Corsair website says, "Triple 12V Rails provide independent reliable power to the CPU, video card and other components with a combined rating of 50A (40A on 520W) maximum!" Which isn't as much of a lie as Antec's statements, but then they say, " Advanced circuitry design that automatically enables power sharing between the triple +12V rails in an event of overload on any single +12V rail" which I find humourous because all of the sudden "no additional circuitry" means, "advanced circuitry."
So yeah... I give PCP&C a lot of crap for FUD, but at least they don't lie.
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