Cooler Master has "announced the availability of" six power supplies in their “V” series. They are high efficiency products that are fully modular with flat cables for routing. They each use “100% high quality Japanese capacitors” and introduce “exclusive 3D Circuit Design”. Models are available in 550W, 650W, 750W, 850W, 1000W, and 1200W. The highest-end one was announced a while ago, back in 2014, but the line is now available and larger.
The V550, V650, V750, V850, and V1000 each carry an 80PLUS Gold certification for efficiency, while the V1200 is rated at 80PLUS Platinum. Cooler Master claims that their 3D technology, which uses full, separate circuit boards to distance noisy circuits from each other, provides three benefits. First, it reduces heat and improves heat dissipation. Second, it reduces inefficiency that could be introduced by signal noise, which sounds a bit weird for direct current but makes a bit of sense. Third, the reduced ripple and noise can lower long-term stress on the capacitors, which definitely does make sense to me.
Five of the six power supplies come with five-year warranties (the 1200W has a seven-year one). They are available now and range from around 90$ USD to around 300$ USD. The V1200 is currently 30$ off at 270$ USD on Amazon.
Heyyo, wow this is good on
Heyyo, wow this is good on Cooler Master. First they bring out the Master Case which is quite the epic case and now they put out some great PSU’s with five year warranties… Hmm, before I was seriously thinking Fractal Design with an EVGA PSU on a future build but now I will have to weigh it against Cooler Master case and PSU…
Is fully modular cabling the
Is fully modular cabling the only difference from the ones that have already been available for over a year now? I like that those V-series PSUs are physically a bit more compact ( eg. 750W is only 5.5″ length if I recall correctly) than things like the Corsair RM series which can help with cases that have fans right behind bottom mounted PSU’s.
eg. HardOCP gave the 850W version a silver award in May 2014
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2014/05/06/cooler_master_v850_850w_power_supply_review/9#.Vf7uePQk8ec
I didn’t know there was a
I didn’t know there was a platinum spec! I cant imagine these are needed for the average system. Good on Cooler Master for keeping these in a sane price point and standing behind their work with that warranty.