Monday, October 18th 2010
Be Quiet! Introduces New Straight Power and Dark Power Series PSUs
Be Quiet! (brand name) announced a major expansion of its power supply lineup, with two new product lines: the 80 Plus Silver certified Straight Power E8 series, and 80 Plus Gold certified Dark Power Pro P9 series. The Straight Power E8 series includes 400W, 450W, 500W, 550W, 600W, and 700W models that have completely fixed cabling, and 480W, 580W and 680W models with modular cabling. The Dark Power Pro P9 series, on the other hand, includes 550W, 650W, 750W, 850W, 1000W and 1200W models, all of which have modular cabling.
The Straight Power E8 series models are ATX V2.3 and EPS 12V V2.92 compliant, use a more compact chassis, and are cooled by a 120 mm Silent Wings fan, and use four 12V rail design (with the exception of the 400W model that has a three rail design), prices for this series start at €69.90, and go all the way up to €149.90. The Dark Power Pro P9 uses a slightly longer chassis, also cooled by a 120 mm fan, it uses highly durable capacitors, and a four 12V rail design. These are priced between €149.90 and €269.90.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
The Straight Power E8 series models are ATX V2.3 and EPS 12V V2.92 compliant, use a more compact chassis, and are cooled by a 120 mm Silent Wings fan, and use four 12V rail design (with the exception of the 400W model that has a three rail design), prices for this series start at €69.90, and go all the way up to €149.90. The Dark Power Pro P9 uses a slightly longer chassis, also cooled by a 120 mm fan, it uses highly durable capacitors, and a four 12V rail design. These are priced between €149.90 and €269.90.
20 Comments on Be Quiet! Introduces New Straight Power and Dark Power Series PSUs
Still prefer the older design with 6 12v rails myself ( nickel plated psu anyone?)
But these are coo' too.
Does anyone know their OEM?
Otherwise, its just a pretty case and possibly not worth buying.
Three died this year (including the 800W one). The RMA'd ones are still running but QC doesn't seem to be that great.
Because they use very high efficiency parts, they're also pretty damn stable ( the dark power pro range anyways) it be kinda weird for them to dick up this way :laugh:
I had good Customer Care as well with mine, I had a 750w dark power pro ( the kind I described earlier with 6 12 volt rails) and I thought I had a faulty cable bunch so emailed them just to ask about the process of rma, they're reply was " Very sorry to hear about this, give us your address we'll ship you new cables asap"
They didn't even ask for proof of purchase or anything :laugh:
Better than XFX support by a long way XD
*edit*
Thought I'd remind everyone that the p9 has a fan controller built in, as the power supply probably won't ever get hot enough it will run the fans at 5v( if it did how ever it ramps it up to 7 and then 12 if needed), and keep them running for 2 minutes after case shuts down.
Quite good if you've bought some high speed fans but they're noisy as crap.