1000W-1200W Roundup: Five High-End PSUs

AeroCool V12XT 1000W Overview

AeroCool is the only candidate in this roundup with a high-end PSU that forgoes 80Plus Gold, but they have an interesting looking case. There are very few package contents: just one power cable and the modular cables. With 80Plus Bronze certification, an LED fan and LED female plugs, there ar no special technologies or features, but the carbon fiber exterior looks extraordinary. The housing is 18cm long

The main cables as well as the two 60cm long PCIe connectors are fixed. All the cables are long enough, especially the ATX12V/EPS12V cable, but only eight SATA connectors may be a bit limiting if you plan on using many HDDs/SSDs/DVDs. On the other hand, the V12XT has twice as many Molex connectors as the OCZ.

This transparent 13.50cm fan is a DFS132512H (H stands for highRPM) from Young Lin Tech with a common sleeve bearing type. Like most other Young Lin fans this one has seven fan blades.

AeroCool is using an older HEC design with two transformers, a large main cap from Nippon Chemi-Con, and small heatsinks on the primary side. Again, there are big outgoing cables and all solid capacitors on the secondary side. This design has an interleaved Power Factor Preregulator with two parallel working magnetic cores, with a switcher and diodes to get less ripple current at high loads. Many insulators can be found on the cables and the sister PCB for cable management.