Germany’s Be quiet! –a manufacturer that specializes silent PC parts–said its new Pure Power 10 PSUs are best suited for gaming systems, workstations, and silent PC configurations.
The Pure Power 10 CM line includes four members with a semi-modular cable design and with capacities ranging from 400W to 700W, while the Pure Power line only includes non-modular PSUs, six in total, with 300W to 700W max power. Most of the above units have 80 PLUS Silver efficiency certifications except for the 350W and 300W Pure Power models which are 80 PLUS Bronze certified. The provided warranty is three years long and be quiet! mentions a good pricing scheme.
The new Pure Power 10 models utilize the “Active Clamp + SR” topology that their predecessors also used. They are based on an FSP platform–to be more specific, the 400W and higher capacity units use the FSP Raider II platform. Most likely the 300W and 350W units use an older double-forward FSP platform with a group regulation scheme for the minor rails, instead of DC-DC converters. To increase reliability solid capacitors are used for filtering purposes, on the secondary side of the PSUs.
The modular cables have a low-profile design while the native cables are fully sleeved. Models from 400W upwards provide two PCIe connectors in order to support more than one GPU; models with 600W and above are equipped with four PCIe connectors.
Sadly at this time we don’t have any information about when these PSUs will be available in the US market.
