Wednesday, September 26th 2012
Thermaltake Launches the Toughpower Grand Platinum Snow Edition Power Supply
Thermaltake, being the industry pioneer brand with expertise in PC chassis, power supply and thermal solution, excited to release the latest addition to our signature power supply series - the Toughpower Grand Platinum Snow Edition 700 W and 600 W. The Toughpower Grand Platinum Snow Edition is certified with 80 PLUS Platinum that grant up to 94% efficiency, featuring high current massive single +12V rail, modular cable design, patented 14 cm flower-shape fan with the integration of FanDelayCool Technology guaranteed system for a smooth and substantial operation.
Green Responsibility
To facilitate the idea of building a green environment, the new Toughpower Grand Platinum Snow not only has incorporated 100% Japanese made capacitors and 3oz copper PCB to lower the temperature for efficiency and reliability. It has a redesigned layout of the main circuitry, an alteration on the primary winding from Double Forward converter to LLC Resonant converter, as well as employed the active clamp ZVS to improve the efficiency rate from 80 PLUS Gold to 80 PLUS Platinum for power users to get the most out of the system while saving up to 3% of energy from before.
Reputation
Since the introduction of Toughpower Grand, it has been one of kind PSU on the market that succeed with numerous world prestige design awards from reddot to iF design organization and recommendations from major media around the world base on the unique design and the performance. To uphold the acknowledgements of the series, the Toughpower Grand Platinum Snow continued the honor by receiving the reddot design award 2012 and Taiwan Excellent 2012, proven it worthiness against it competitors in the market.
As top systems are driven by powers, the Toughpower Grand Platinum Snow edition promises to deliver 696 W at 58A on the 700 W and 588 W at 49A on the 600 W for enthusiasts to unleash the performance of their GPU and CPU.
For more details on the Thermaltake "Toughpower Grand Platinum Snow" information please visit:
Toughpower Grand Platinum Snow 700 W
www.thermaltake.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00001910
Toughpower Grand Platinum Snow 600 W
www.thermaltake.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00001909
Green Responsibility
To facilitate the idea of building a green environment, the new Toughpower Grand Platinum Snow not only has incorporated 100% Japanese made capacitors and 3oz copper PCB to lower the temperature for efficiency and reliability. It has a redesigned layout of the main circuitry, an alteration on the primary winding from Double Forward converter to LLC Resonant converter, as well as employed the active clamp ZVS to improve the efficiency rate from 80 PLUS Gold to 80 PLUS Platinum for power users to get the most out of the system while saving up to 3% of energy from before.
Since the introduction of Toughpower Grand, it has been one of kind PSU on the market that succeed with numerous world prestige design awards from reddot to iF design organization and recommendations from major media around the world base on the unique design and the performance. To uphold the acknowledgements of the series, the Toughpower Grand Platinum Snow continued the honor by receiving the reddot design award 2012 and Taiwan Excellent 2012, proven it worthiness against it competitors in the market.
As top systems are driven by powers, the Toughpower Grand Platinum Snow edition promises to deliver 696 W at 58A on the 700 W and 588 W at 49A on the 600 W for enthusiasts to unleash the performance of their GPU and CPU.
For more details on the Thermaltake "Toughpower Grand Platinum Snow" information please visit:
Toughpower Grand Platinum Snow 700 W
www.thermaltake.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00001910
Toughpower Grand Platinum Snow 600 W
www.thermaltake.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00001909
28 Comments on Thermaltake Launches the Toughpower Grand Platinum Snow Edition Power Supply
Nice PSU though.
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Really because there isn't a single bad review about the high end Tt's only comments on pricing :rolleyes:
Well lets compare apples and apples instead of apples and vipers.
Same puny heatsink in the 650w OCZ. They must be a shitty company.
Superflower is a little better but not much
This one hmmm...FSP based unit appears to be missing something...Can't quite put my finger on it.
oh wait here is is
Yup everyone who makes >700w powersupplies is just a shitty company. :shadedshu
And let us make clear, they DONT MAKE PSU's by themselves. They buy it from OEM, that's a huge difference in my eyes.
Most companies do not make there own powersupplies. I happen to have a CWT built Thermaltake 850w unit that runs beautifully 4 years later with a phenom and pair of 3870X2's.
If you want to be really stupid about this lets start looking into Antec, OCZ, etc all of which have had shit boxes.
The second paragraph doesn't matter because few make them themselves.
Ok, your CWT.
There is the picture up there in my post, won't double it. It looks really cramped.
Then for example same power ratio heavyweight Enermax.
How in hell CWT maintained some Voodoo magic and without sinks achieved same efficiency and power? Guess what the review told about noise in those both PSU's and witch of them was silent?
I am just trying to say despite being a overpriced OEM seller TT(I still think like that, despite they might have some good products), they tend to scrap some parts in order to save money where it is forbidden to do so. So the sacrifice now is less aluminum, more noise at higher load.
And at my point of view, for a home supply, especially gaming, I don't need a dust cleaner in my case that wows like mad when I run some gaming. I am a buyer from my objective point of view as see this as a serious flaw, when the maker want to cut down price on those who really use the supply. For that price it is even a crime :).
The second thing, I am not the one who gave that example of that big thoughpower CWT it was cdawall. :p
Well... like most of us here, many of us are sort of PC enthusiasts. They tend to have some QUAD SLI setups and also Dual CPU setups, like I had few years ago when everything was hotter, and that's why I need a hefty PSU myself. (Gosh those GTX480 :D)
All electronics tend to teach that the most prolonged life for any equipment is that a peak load it is being used at 50-80% of it's maximum rated capacity(ie coolest optimal temperature mode). Doing a simple math with your nicely given number 650W, so 1kW number appears near. And it really depends on the case config and other things, but it lame to think, you know - I am buying a new PSU, but I know that it really barely can cool itself down otherwise I got a hairdryer mode on... I hope you got the idea.
Who knows. Even Intel made Ivy Bridge pancakes a bit HOT than Sandy. Next gen cards from green and red camp would be again like? You never know. ;)
As for my own personal use I am just going to run dual 850w Antec TPQ's. AFAIC they are good solid units.
And the argument - your bad example comparing Tough Power behemoth with this one up there in the headline. That was funny and started all this chit chat. ;)
Antec TPQ? The old striped one like and old American muscle car?
OK I am a bit off. Crucial released a firmware update for their M4 setup. TRIM improvements hell yeah. Upgrade for free is always welcome. Well done Micron!
Yup the enhance built 850w model that gained a 1000w cert using the exact same PCB and components.Same thing Super Talent did with mine :) Always nice!
And what the hell, it has good looks, they have considered that when designing too.