Xilence Power 600w Gaming Edition
Installation
No Installation problems with a PSU of this size. Plus the braiding on the cables meant it was easy to hide them behind some of the prominent case features with no risk of damage.
Testing
Although there are those that see synthetic testing as the way to go when testing Power Supplies. We believe putting together a rig that mimics the most powerful PCs available is a good “real world” test of how capable a PSU is. Therefore, for testing the Xilence Power I grabbed every bit of hardware we currently have and put together one rather power hungry rig, and another with a hefty GPU also powered by our 600w GE.
The entire setup was as follows:
Master PC
Asus P5W-DH Deluxe
C2D E600 @ 2.7ghz
OCZ Special Ops. Urban Elite 6400 @ 900mhz
2x Sapphire x1900XT in Crossfire
Western Digital Raptor 36gb
Western Digital Caviar SE 80gb
BFG Ageia PhysX
Slave PC
aBit M2N-HD
AMD AM2 3800 X2
4gb Super Talent T800
PNY 8800GTS 640mb
Western Digital Caviar SE 160gb
Added to both of these were several fans and CD/DVD drives plus any pen drives we had lying around at the time.
The PSU powered not only the entire master PC, but the PNY 8800GTS and all HDD and Optical drives from the Slave PC too.
Results were taken using Asus Probe and verified with a multimeter on a spare molex connector.
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