PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III 400W
by Martin Kaffei on May 19, 2012 2:05 PM ESTInternal Design and Components
Opening the unit reveals a typical Seasonic design with a 120mm fan blowing at the top of the heatsinks, so the heatsinks benefit in that case from a shape that will allow air to pass through vertically. There is a Nippon Chemi-Con cap installed on the primary circuitry, and the secondary features Japanese capacitors as well. PC Power & Cooling operates with a common forward converter with two MOSFETs (one high-side and one low-side one), which allows the manufacturer to use a higher switching frequency and lower voltage rating for the transistors. EMI filtering is well equipped with two common-mode chokes, another choke against differential mode EMI, six Y capacitors, two X capacitors, and one MOV. The ICs provide all the necessary safety functions such as OVP and UVP.
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iamkyle - Saturday, May 19, 2012 - link
How about the ability to compare this unit with the other ones that Anandtech has tested.So we can see the differences among units, no?
piroroadkill - Saturday, May 19, 2012 - link
If you want more indepth reviews of PSUs, you should head to http://www.jonnyguru.com/ first.iamkyle - Sunday, May 20, 2012 - link
But that's my point...every other review on Anandtech is very in-depth...except PSU reviews. It's the weakest link in the Anandtech review chain.I just want things to be on par.
ectoplasmosis - Monday, May 21, 2012 - link
Agreed.This review is particularly bad... in scope as well as being very poorly written, with many superfluous and awkwardly-worded sentences.
"A small sticker is within the scope of delivery as well"; what is that supposed to mean? Reads like something an immature student attempting to feign verbosity would write.
This sentence simply doesn't make any sense whatsoever: "The build quality is very good as always, though it seems the converter type is a very common choice these days, especially since the crossload performance is mediocre". Bizarre use of the language.
And describing sound levels as "small fan noise" and "strong fan noise" with no quantitative measurements? Ridiculous, especially for an Anandtech review.
Ditch the reviewer and get someone in that knows what they're doing when it comes to testing and writing about PSUs.
ETPrice - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - link
This whacky language is the kind of nonsense you can get from some machine translations from a foreign language. Someone may have taken foreign text and run it through a machine that is not up to speed with the complexities of the English language. You also get this kind of nonsense when a non-speaking-English author does a literal word-for-word translation from his or her own language. " It don't work!"The review should have been sent back to the author;i.e., rejected. That's what editors are for.
average_joe - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - link
Or http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/psu_power_supplies/jabber - Saturday, May 19, 2012 - link
Are baffling. I removed the huge one in my Corsair 750W. I also replaced the leaf blower fan for a low start power 1700rpm one. Works a treat now.plonk420 - Saturday, May 19, 2012 - link
and this company once said that modular was baaaaad. still, i have 4 PCP&C here... :DHomeles - Saturday, May 19, 2012 - link
PCP&C doesn't even exist anymore... they've been bought by OCZ, so this is essentially an OCZ power supply with some PCP&C stickers on it. This particular unit was built by Seasonic though, which was PCP&C's original OEM.Operandi - Saturday, May 19, 2012 - link
OCZ owns them but they still exist, a buudy of mine had to get a RMA for a refurbished Silencer that turned out to be DOA. PCP&C support is the same as it allwyays was, no holding on line and a real American on the other end as sell as a RMA number with minimal hassel.Product lines remain the same, this is just the continuation of the Silener line which was always OEMd by Seasonic.