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Review: Enermax Platimax 1,200W enthusiast PSU

by Tarinder Sandhu on 24 February 2012, 08:51 4.0

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The final thoughts and rating

The Platimax range of power supplies represents the pinnacle of Enermax's engineering for the start of 2012. Taking liberally from the technology in the extant, in-house-designed MAXREVO line and tweaking a little here and there, Platimax offers super-high efficiency and above-average results in a battery of tests, though, if we're being critical, the 12V line could do with tightening under load.

1,200W PSUs are all about offering the real enthusiast the utmost flexibility in connecting a wide range of power-sucking components. The fully-modular PSU can power up to four high-end graphics cards. Meanwhile, lots of SATA connectors make storage easy, so it's a good fit if you plan to run a monster rig full of graphics cards and storage drives.

A downside of this engineering excellence is a £275 price tag that is significantly higher than other premium PSUs from a range of established competitors. Our advice would be to ascertain just how important the last drop of efficiency and ripple suppression - the two hallmarks of this Platimax - are to you. If they're paramount, Enermax's 1,200W is a good, albeit expensive, buy.

The Good

Excellent efficiency
Very good ripple figures
Fully-modular, lots of useful cables
Rated to perform within spec at 50°C
Pretty quiet, all things considered

The Bad

12V line has tendency to drop under massive load
The £275 asking price

HEXUS Rating

4/5
Enermax 1,200W Platimax PSU

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Of course, the £275 asking price won't seem so steep when you consider that the only people buying this will be running heavily overclocked systems with 3-4 dual-GPU graphics cards and 1-2 CPUs that they will probably be using nearly 24/7 for heavy duty processing/folding, and so it'll make its money back in about a year of use compared to a cheaper but less power-efficient one. ;)
Lol, you'd be scared of running it at idle for fear of it being at it's worst efficiency.
Thats a seriously good PSU, the price tag is very high though :(
In realworld situations will the average voltage regulation damage your components?
imagine Enermax Platimax 1,200W install for EVGA SR-X for enthusiast user :) that's crazy RIG :)