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Inspired by RAPTOR, I wanted to write my own review about PC Hardware. Like he said, its based on personal opinions and findings so things may differ per person.
Intro:
Xilence for me was a relatively unknown brand before I bought this PSU. I was looking around some hardware sites to find a suitable PSU for my guest PC. I had some demands; it needed to be black, it needed to be powerful and most of all it needed to be quiet.
Test system:
The following equipment was used for this review;
- ASUS M2N-SLI
- AMD Athlon64 X2 4600+ @ 2630Mhz per core
- EVGA GTS250, 1024MB in SLI
- 80GB Raptor HDD and a 250GB generic WD HDD
- 4GB DDR2 800MHz
- ASUS Silent Track DVD-ROM
The build:
Building in the PSU was quiet annoying actually, but thats myself to blame. The case its was being put in was so choke full of casemods and cables it was hard enough to even put in a simple SATA cable.
Well, once the old PSU, generic 400W, was removed thing where allot easier to access. I started of by putting in the 24-pins ATX connector and by suprise I found out it could also be used as 20-Pins connector. Quite handy for older motherboards. Even though its practible it was also negative point for me, since the main ATX connector comes in a bundle: 20-pins block bundled with a extra 4 pins for those who need 24-pins to power there motherboard. It wouldnt have been so much of a problem if you could click the two seperate block together, but you couldnt. A real letdown in my opinion.
I managed to get it in by putting in the 4 pins in first and the 20 pins in second. With that out of the way I needed another 4-pins cable for even more juice my motherboard needs. It also comes in a bundle 2x 4-Pins, two different connectors though, I dont know why, perhaps some motherboards have a different connector or need them all. That again was a pain in the ass to do, but not because of the PSU or its cables but the humongous CPU cooler.
Putting in the 6-Pins PCI-E connectors and P-SATA for my HDDs and DVD-ROM was no problem.
Build time: 12 minutes
The looks:
I cant really show you any pictures of the build since I forgot taking them. But I can tell you this, the PSU looks damn nice. It has a black metallic finish coupled with a nice 135mm red fan which makes next to no noise.
The cables are covered in black protective nets and the connectors themself are in red, which adds to the PSU awesomeness, black and red looks so damn sexy. Even the stickers look good. Really, I cant complain here. Good job Xilence! Makes me wanna come back for more.
The insides:
Well what can I say? Xilence misjudges the PSU. They sell it for 800W but in reality in can easily put out 850W. Other then that it has some nice features as a controlable fan, heatguard (which makes the fan spin for a extra 10sec after the PC is shutdown to cool the PSU) and ofcourse surge protection.
Once again, no complaints.
Results:
It has to juice to easily power the entire rig, I even believe I could put in a extra GTS 250 if the mobo had another PCI-E slots. The next pic says enough about temperatures after a games of Crysis:
Conclusion:
I'm really happy with this PSU, it does what it suppose to do and looks good in the progress. I might even consider buying there modulair 1250W edition, who knows. In the end, Xilence has left a good mark with me.
8,7/10
Edited by Crazykenny, 26 May 2009 - 15:37.
