Packaging

Seasonic's flagship comes in a large box with a nice graphics design. On the front is a photograph of the unit, and the Platinum badge resides in the top-right corner. The capacity description is in the bottom-right corner, in small white fonts, almost as though Seasonic meant to hide it.


The unit's technical specifications and its power specifications table are on this side.


A shot of the modular side and the Platinum badge.


Next to the omnipresent Platinum badge are several icons for ErP compliance, Haswell compatibility, and the SLI certification.


Seasonic mentions the advantages of a Platinum-certified PSU on the back of the box, comparing it to the other 80 PLUS certifications. However, the company forgot to mention the Titanium efficiency certification, the most efficient certification currently available. Yet very few PSUs so far meet Titanium specifications, which are indeed very strict. Seasonic also provides a brief description of the unit's highlights. These include its tight voltage regulation, hybrid fan control, quality Sanyo Denki fan, DC-DC converters, which are installed directly to the modular board, and, the copper bus-bars that transfer power to the modular sockets, which greatly reduces energy losses.

Contents

The outer sleeve hides a sturdy cardboard box with Seasonic's logo on it. Inside the box is the PSU, fully protected by two sheets of packing foam and wrapped inside a luxurious velvet bag.


A nice and quite large pouch stores all modular cables.


The bundle is rich and includes the modular cables, a set of Velcro-straps with Seasonic's logo on them, several zip ties, a set of fixing bolts, a case badge, and an AC power cord.

Exterior

The finish is of very good quality, and the heavy duty on/off switch next to the AC socket at the front will easily cope with the unit's needs.


There are only two small decals on one side. The other side hosts a pretty large power specifications label.


A blue label on the back points users to the switch that enables this unit's hybrid fan control. The fully modular panel includes many sockets since this PSU comes with a lot of connectors because of its huge capacity.


You can pick between operating the fan in hybrid- or normal mode.


The unit is quite large, and the silver frame around the fan grill looks nice.


All cables are stealth and every cable but the main ATX cable is flat to restrict airflow inside your case by as little as possible.


Cable quality is good enough; however, we noticed that some connectors didn't fit into the fixtures on our board all too well. It took some additional force to make them fit perfectly.


The cables are flexible enough because of the 18 AWG gauges used, which will make cable management and routing inside your case relatively easy.