Conclusion

With the Seasonic Platinum 1000 Watt, Seasonic presents an extraordinary power supply. More than 92 Percent efficiency at 50 Percent load is an excellent value and as a result thermal dissipation power is low. This implicates a noise level which is low too because there isn't much heat to be removed by a fan. Always practical is a cable management and furthermore we like the number of integrated cables. There really is enough in the delivery to make any enthusiast happy.

A cable management is always a good thing because of the simple reason that it allows the user to only connect the cables really needed to wire a system as neatly as possible. With eight molex connectors and eleven SATA connectors it shouldn't be a problem to wire an absolute high-end system. Also the fact that you can natively connect a three-way-SLI/Crossfire setup shows the Platinum 1000 Watts preferred area of application.

If we look at the performance values the Seasonic Platinum 1000 Watt it shows very good stability at 50 Percent load. If we look at average deviations, we see that the 12 Volt rail is not even two percent outside the specs. Therefore the power supply does it's job in a rock solid manner.

If you think about building a high-end PC or then the Seasonic Platinum 1000 Watt is the perfect power supply for you. It's not only the efficiency we like it's also the way the power is delivered, which is rock solid.

For the Platinum 1000 Watt, Seasonic receives very good five out of five stars.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 6 - Performance 50 % load
Page 2 - Preview	Page 7 - Performance 100 % load
Page 3 - Delivery/Specs	Page 8 - Average Values
Page 4 - Test setup	Page 9 - Input/Output Power and Efficiency
Page 5 - Performance 20 % load	Page 10 - Conclusion

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Author: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch