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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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In this review PCSTATS will be evaluating the Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad power supply. The 750W Quad is a unit that hardware enthusiasts should like. The Silencer 750 Quad has been nVIDIA SLI certified (it has four PCI Express videocard power connectors), runs at 83% efficiency and can deliver 825W of peak power. Team that up with a five year warranty and tech suppor and you have a comprehensive package.
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Monday, June 23, 2008
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Most people wouldn't expect a quad-core rig with Crossfire graphics cards to run well on 500W, but the Silencer is a testament to the fact that it can with a high quality power supply. Theoretically, at full load, this rig pulls about 400W, but very few power supplies rated below 600W could handle it. Indeed, on the topic of performance, the Silencer did a fine job, though I would have liked to see a slightly more accurate reading on the 5V line.
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Monday, May 26, 2008
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PC Power & Cooling is one of the most reputable high performance PSU manufacturers, if not the most reputable. This good reputation is no doubt helped by them not offering budget products, only mainstream and high end models. When OCZ bought PC P&C nearly a year ago many thought that the quality of their units would somehow degrade however every unit they released since then had an excellent design and really the move to the OCZ camp has had little impact. Today we will take a look on a unit from the Silencer series which is aimed at mainstream users, the Silencer 610W EPS12V. Interestingly the Silencer 610W EPS12V is the first PC P&C unit we have received that clearly mentions OCZ technology on it, let us have a closer look at it and see how good the latest mainstream PC P&C units really are.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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Silencer 750 Quad is a 750 W power supply from PC Power & Cooling featuring a single +12 V rail, four auxiliary PCI Express power cables for video cards, active PFC, efficiency above 80% and the very traditional ATX looks, with a small 80-mm fan on the rear side. The manufacturer promises that this unit can deliver its labeled power at 40� C and has a maximum peak power of 825 W. Sounds promising, but can this unit really deliver 750 W? Let's see.
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Monday, April 7, 2008
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Picking up the plain white box that housed the Silencer 610EPS12V power supply didn't excite me very much. With only a list of technical specifications on the side and no fancy graphics or pictures, I didn't really know what to expect. It may not seem too impressive on the outside, but you should never judge a book by its cover.
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Monday, February 4, 2008
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PC Power and cooling have been around since before I was born, and are one of the oldest and best PSU brands around. It was with their reputation ahead of them that I came to testing their new PSU, the silencer 610W EPS12v. Why EPS and not ATX? Well the EPS is a higher classification standard that ATX is heading towards anyway, it basically means it has to have a 24pin motherboard connector and 8pin 12v aux power to the board/CPU. Don't worry though as the Silencer is also ATX 12v compliant, so will work if you only have a 4pin aux 12v on your motherboard. Let's see what treat PCP&C have got for us then.
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Monday, January 21, 2008
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Despite being named the Silencer Quad, this PSU uses just a single beefy 12V rail, running 60 amps! Seeing specs like those just makes you want to drool. High efficiency, just one silent fan, and single rail design, all of this is amazing? but is it too good to be true? Continue on as we find out.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
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Almost a half year ago I published a review of the PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 power supply and today I'm taking a look at the 610W model. The Silencer 610 is less expensive and features a single powerful 49A +12V line, that's 11A less than the +12V rail of the Silencer 750.
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Monday, November 12, 2007
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PC Power and Cooling has been making computer power supplies for over twenty years. They have a reputation for no-nonsense quality PSUs. They are also staunch don't believe the hype advocates when it comes to power supplies and have been the choice for Maximum PC's Dream Machine going on a decade now. There is no doubt PC power and Cooling can make a killer PSU, but does their Silencer 610 represent? Bring in the victim, it's review time!
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Friday, November 9, 2007
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Has OCZ screwed up PC Power & Cooling? In this review PCSTATS will be evaluating the Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad power supply. The 750W Quad is a unit that hardware enthusiasts should like. The Silencer 750 Quad has been nVIDIA SLI certified with two GeForce 8800GTXs (it has four PCI Express videocard power connectors), runs at 83% efficiency and can deliver 825W of peak power. Team that up with a five year warranty and tech suppor and you have a comprehensive package.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
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In almost every PC Power & Cooling PSU review we see the same accolades, a few of which get stuck in my semantic craw. In fact I've already used a universal quantifier in the term above every. Although I modified every with almost we all know where universal quantification can lead; Other Possible Worlds. There are those who would consider our test subject, the TurboCool 1KW-SR out of this world, let's try to remain in this world...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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As the demands for power increase so do the recommended equipment and once again PCP&C is there for another certification. With the recent release of ATI's power hungry 2900 XT, power draw is at an all time high for even one GPU unit. With a reported 215 watts per card that leaves you needing the recommended 550 watt PSU for a single card and a 750 watt PSU for Crossfire. With the Silencer 750 making the certification, PCP&C wanted to release a special unit just for the occasion. The Silencer 750 Quad Crossfire Edition (CF) sports a red paint job in celebration of ATI's theme. Now lets see what's new with the Silencer 750 Quad-CF.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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PC Power & Cooling products are like a racing cars - it's raw and on the edge - it feels like its been made by proper engineers with pens and metal rulers in their pockets and a calender featuring pictures of power transformers, rather than designers behind Macs with glass desks drinking Grande Starbucks. The attention to detail is on the inside, and the outside is only half way there.
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Thursday, September 6, 2007
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PC Power and Cooling is without doubt one of the best power supply manufacturers out there. Recently they have been bought by OCZ and we are now seeing the first products which are geared for the masses. The Silencer 750W Quad CF comes with an ATI CrossFire certification and boasts four PCI-E power connectors. In our testing we saw excellent regulation qualities and very high efficiency of up to 82%.
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Overall, the performance of the PC Power and Cooling 750 Quad Black Power Supply was extremely impressive. Even with the extra load added by the synthetic load generator thrown on top of everything else the test system had to offer, the voltage rails wouldn't budge. They just kept on reporting the same static data, which is what you would like to see. Whether the data was being read instantaneously via a multimeter or over time with diagnostic software, the unit made it clear it could handle much more.
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