Fresh from 80plus testing, I give you the solytech SL-9600EPS. Solytech's most efficient psu, bringing home silver, though it could have easily cleared gold with some slight modifications.
I am now using this psu to power my gaming computer. For one, it has cables that are a bit longer. Two, it is silent. I mean, the fan maybe spins at 400rpm even when I'm running 3dmark06 with a 5000+ dual core and a 9800gt. Not much for a 600W, but enough to make my delta 700W ramp up the fan. Doesn't get hot, a side effect of the higher efficiency.
Anyways, I bought the psu from a seller on ebay who gets them from the 80plus organization. You can tell this may have been modified a bit for efficiency, as the cables are a bit short, not too bad, but short. Also, all the cables are 16 gauge. I mean all of them, from the -12v to the molex connectors and the pci-e connector. Makes it harder to work with the shorter cables.
Speaking of cables, heres what you get with this bad boy. 1 detachable 20+4 pin main connector, 2x 8pin cpu power connectors, 1x 6pin pci-e connector, 4x molex connectors, 1x floppy, 4x sata connectors. Anyways, here's a label shot.
Thats a lot of 20's. Looks pretty honestly rated, no 6,434 amp 5v rail. It can do it all too, according to the 80plus report, and do it with 87.83% efficiency. Under this label is another one, probably for a different model. This label looks like they made it real quick in MSpaint, then slapped it on some other model's case from the factory floor and laminated it with scotch tape. This must be a pretty rare model, maybe the only one in the US, as they don't even have it on their website.
There is that fan I was talking about. Globe fan, usual to see from solytech nowadays. Much better than the no-name fans they use to come with.
Heres a naked shot with one of the 8pin cpu connectors poking in to say hi. Quite favorable looking in there. Under those two big coils for the transient filter are two 1.0uf X caps. Nice. You can't see it in any shot, but the bridge rectifier is a 10A, 600V part bolted to the end of that long primary heatsink.
Typical Yang Chung in solytech. Sigh. Aww well, primaries hardly ever fail. Big'ol PFC coil.
Interesting, Q5 there was removed. Not just removed, but ripped out. The remnants of the legs are still there, as well as the thermal pad. Interesting.
Much different transformer in there than usual solytech ERL-XX-2005 stuff. Looks like one of the transformers used in the Silverstone SST-1500.
Secondary filtering, much better. All teapo. 2x 10v, 3300uf for the 3.3v. 2x 10v, 3300uf for the 5v. 4x 16v, 4700uf for 12v (2 for each rail, those two rails are then separated into two rails each by OCP,) That 12v choke is enormous. Solytech is serious about keeping ripple down on this.
There is the chokes for the 5v and 3.3v, showing off it's indy regulation.
Link for the 80 plus report.
Overall a nice power supply from a company with such a history as Solytech. Did you know that solytech use to be a textile manufacturer until they bought deer computer (at least according to their website before they re-did it)
I am now using this psu to power my gaming computer. For one, it has cables that are a bit longer. Two, it is silent. I mean, the fan maybe spins at 400rpm even when I'm running 3dmark06 with a 5000+ dual core and a 9800gt. Not much for a 600W, but enough to make my delta 700W ramp up the fan. Doesn't get hot, a side effect of the higher efficiency.
Anyways, I bought the psu from a seller on ebay who gets them from the 80plus organization. You can tell this may have been modified a bit for efficiency, as the cables are a bit short, not too bad, but short. Also, all the cables are 16 gauge. I mean all of them, from the -12v to the molex connectors and the pci-e connector. Makes it harder to work with the shorter cables.
Speaking of cables, heres what you get with this bad boy. 1 detachable 20+4 pin main connector, 2x 8pin cpu power connectors, 1x 6pin pci-e connector, 4x molex connectors, 1x floppy, 4x sata connectors. Anyways, here's a label shot.
Thats a lot of 20's. Looks pretty honestly rated, no 6,434 amp 5v rail. It can do it all too, according to the 80plus report, and do it with 87.83% efficiency. Under this label is another one, probably for a different model. This label looks like they made it real quick in MSpaint, then slapped it on some other model's case from the factory floor and laminated it with scotch tape. This must be a pretty rare model, maybe the only one in the US, as they don't even have it on their website.
There is that fan I was talking about. Globe fan, usual to see from solytech nowadays. Much better than the no-name fans they use to come with.
Heres a naked shot with one of the 8pin cpu connectors poking in to say hi. Quite favorable looking in there. Under those two big coils for the transient filter are two 1.0uf X caps. Nice. You can't see it in any shot, but the bridge rectifier is a 10A, 600V part bolted to the end of that long primary heatsink.
Typical Yang Chung in solytech. Sigh. Aww well, primaries hardly ever fail. Big'ol PFC coil.
Interesting, Q5 there was removed. Not just removed, but ripped out. The remnants of the legs are still there, as well as the thermal pad. Interesting.
Much different transformer in there than usual solytech ERL-XX-2005 stuff. Looks like one of the transformers used in the Silverstone SST-1500.
Secondary filtering, much better. All teapo. 2x 10v, 3300uf for the 3.3v. 2x 10v, 3300uf for the 5v. 4x 16v, 4700uf for 12v (2 for each rail, those two rails are then separated into two rails each by OCP,) That 12v choke is enormous. Solytech is serious about keeping ripple down on this.
There is the chokes for the 5v and 3.3v, showing off it's indy regulation.
Link for the 80 plus report.
Overall a nice power supply from a company with such a history as Solytech. Did you know that solytech use to be a textile manufacturer until they bought deer computer (at least according to their website before they re-did it)
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