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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sheh - Saturday, March 22, 2008 - link
According to reviews I read, it seems ~500W *input* is enough even for high-end systems with two graphic cards. Given this, buying those 1K PSUs is not only a waste of money during purchase, but also afterwards due to lower efficiency because of lower utilization.Like a previous commenter said, efficient and quiet PSUs would be far more interesting, but it looks like all the publicity goes to the KW models.
Maybe AnandTech should take a stance, not review PSUs that make no sense, and instead focus on efficient and quiet? If everyone follows, perhaps we'd get manufacturers to focus on useful products.
R3MF - Monday, March 10, 2008 - link
Silverstone need to have a real re-think on the Sugo 04, that rounded facia is awful.In fact the only thing I would change to the current model is the need for a stealth drive.
nubie - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
Why no pics of the Zalman3D monitor? I wan't one, once you game 3d anything else is a step down.I want to know when they will make a serious effort to push this tech.
Snapcase - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
http://www.anandtech.com/GalleryImage.aspx?id=1448">http://www.anandtech.com/GalleryImage.aspx?id=1448There's no caption or more information on this case, does anyone have any idea what it's called or know specifications?
It looks like a perfect lan party case...
themadmilkman - Saturday, March 8, 2008 - link
It's called the SG04. According to www.presence-pc.com/actualite/Silverstone-CeBIT-28201/ , it is simply the SG03 with a different case design.yehuda - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
Last Computex, Silverstone was showcasing a USB-attached amplifier:http://news.softpedia.com/news/Silverstone-Shows-O...">http://news.softpedia.com/news/Silverst...SB-Power...
Any word on what's come out of it?
poohbear - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
2000w psus? is that ridiculous or is that ridiculous? just curious does ANYONE here have a psu above 750wt? talk about overkill.7Enigma - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
I'm thinking about getting one to put in my bedroom at night to keep it nice and toasty....But really, this is up there in the stupid cuz' we can category. As mentioned in the article the only place this PSU would be practical is in exactly the area where redundency is paramount (cluster/server).
I'm sure its great to say we did it, but its just wasteful. Now I'd love to see a list of people who will be showing up at lan parties with one of these in their system....I'm sure they will get razz'd pretty badly.