Cougar Polar 1200 W

crmaris · Jun 13, 2022

The Cougar Polar 1200 is the best Cougar power supply I have tested so far. Its build quality is high, and performance competes with the ASUS ROG Thor flagship using a modified Seasonic Prime Platinum platform. The Cougar Polar not only performs as well overall, but it's also very quiet.

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Rx771 · Jun 14, 2022

It's made by XinHuiYuan actually, their model 2012. Also GEX series is the complete same platform, they all excellent.

crmaris · Jun 14, 2022

Ha, will check this out with Cougar, again. Thank you for your input!

MachineLearning · Jun 14, 2022

Wow - I didn't expect such a good unit from an OEM I've never heard of. XHY and DWPH, totally new to me. Very surprising.

The PSU looks like a love child between Corsair RMx and Phanteks Revolt X

Thanks for the review!

mechtech · Jun 14, 2022

@crmaris

I see this is atx ver 2.52. But is it rev 1.42 may 2018 or rev 1.43 March 2019 of the atx spec?

I think ver 2.53 is rev 1.43.01 may 2020.

ThrashZone · Jun 14, 2022

Hi,
Not sure why you compare it to ROG tax psu unless this is really a dual sells review of both

Why not just cut to the chase and compare it to the original seasonic psu's :/

crmaris · Jun 14, 2022

I don't have a recent measurement of the original Seasonic PSU

mechtech said:
@crmaris

I see this is atx ver 2.52. But is it rev 1.42 may 2018 or rev 1.43 March 2019 of the atx spec?

I think ver 2.53 is rev 1.43.01 may 2020.

just used what they had on the specs. For me ATX spec doesn't mean anything, since most of them don't fully meet them anyway.

mechtech · Jun 14, 2022

crmaris said:
I don't have a recent measurement of the original Seasonic PSU

just used what they had on the specs. For me ATX spec doesn't mean anything, since most of them don't fully meet them anyway.

I thought as much (about not meeting the spec)

should be a big sticker on the box. Not atx PSU certified.

As an engineer specs mean something to me. I had a chance to read change log for ver 3.0 and skim through the details. My current PSU is ver 2.31. So like 2007 year spec but 4yr old PSU. That’s way before win 10. I recall having issues with sleep and hibernation etc. reviewing the atx change log in wondering if the PSU had anything to do with it now.

If anyone is interested in the latest spec

https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getContent/336521

juular · Jun 14, 2022

ThrashZone said:
Why not just cut to the chase and compare it to the original seasonic psu's :/

Perhaps because ASUS does send review samples and Seasonic doesn't.

mechtech · Jun 15, 2022

@crmaris

Any plans to review a Fractal Ion+ 2 660p platinum unit (or other wattage) in the future??

crmaris · Jun 15, 2022

mechtech said:
@crmaris

Any plans to review a Fractal Ion+ 2 660p platinum unit (or other wattage) in the future??

If they sent me a sample why not

But I don't have anything, for the moment.

Rx771 · Jun 16, 2022

There's no quality different in ROG Thor gen1 and gen2, Phanteks Revilt X also is. They all base on Seasonic's last PRIME-PX platform from 2017.
They all use the same parts with same quality, and nothing different in traditional test :roll:

Just choose what you really need one.
PCIe5.0 , screen and noise certified, ROG.
Dual System, Phanteks. But he still have the same quality and cheaper (a lot) :kookoo:

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