In a meeting with Seasonic at CES this week, the company revealed plans for a completely new series of power supplies coming this spring. The new Seasonic Prime series will come in both Platinum and Titanium editions, with wattage ranges of 650 watts to 1000 watts on the former and 550 watt to 1200 watts on the latter. These power supplies will now be ahead of the X-Series in the brand hierarchy.
Seasonic is well known in the industry for top quality products and is one of the key manufacturers for other PSU brands that you know and love. They want to build a new flagship brand of their own though, going with an impressively svelte design and include enough features and capabilities to stand out in a crowded market.
Both Platinum and Titanium designs will include a totally new hybrid fan control design that allows for a zero fan speed design up to 45% of system load on the higher wattage units. Zero PCB cabling minimizes the chances for individual failure and is aided by the completely modular design. Though the unit is analog rather than digital, Seasonic promises to maintain a 0.5% nominal tolerance on the load regulation on the 12V line. Also, all of the Seasonic Prime power supplies will come with a full 10-year (!!) warranty.
Looking for a fanless design? Seasonic will have you covered with the Titanium Fanless units at both 400 watt and 550 watt variants.
Expect the newest Seasonic power supplies to hit stores in April!
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Seasonic, please integrate
Seasonic, please integrate cpu and case fan controllers into PSU.
550 x 45% = 247.5 Watt dissipated and yo say there is no need for PSU fan to start? Come on, some fans will have to put this heat out of the case.
That is job for case cooling.
That is job for case cooling. Right place for PSU is on bottom of the case and it should not take part what so ever to case cooling.
I hate PSU sucking in dust
I hate PSU sucking in dust from the bottom of the case and blowing it at the back.
The PSU certainly shouldn’t
The PSU certainly shouldn’t be involved in case cooling, quite the opposite in my opinion. Also these modern high efficiency units do not throw out a great deal of heat into the case. After using the Seasonic Platinum fanless 520W in a couple of builds I’m never looking back, its only downfall can be some mild coil whine at certain loading, lets hope this new generation resolves this minor gripe..
That fanless 550W needs to get in my workstation, roll on April…
If you are talking fanless
If you are talking fanless then I agree but for hybrid it is better not to separate components to prevent dust from accumulating and being blown out when the system goes under high load.