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Review: Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 1,200W PSU

by Tarinder Sandhu on 29 November 2016, 16:00

Tags: Gigabyte (TPE:2376)

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Conclusion

...offering masses of capacity, sensible and long cabling, and a five-year warranty, the high-level specifications are solid.

Gigabyte jumps into the ultra-high-end PSU arena with a single new supply called the XP1200M. Naturally offering masses of capacity, sensible and long cabling, and a five-year warranty, the high-level specifications are solid.

There's work to be done at low-load efficiency, however, and we'd recommend Gigabyte tune the vocal fan's profile down in order for it to compete against other rival supplies that offer a more rounded package.

Pricing is out of manufacturers' hands to some degree and has been boosted by recent events in the UK. Nevertheless, £240 is consistent with the price charged for 1,200W models but we believe Gigabyte needs to come in below £200 to curry favour with the enthusiast.

 

The Good
 
The Bad
Decent length cabling
Unique look
Quality components
 
No passive fan mode
Low-load efficiency not great

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No way would I ever spend that much on a psu!
Terrible efficiency at typical load levels though, this should only be used by people with extreme rigs.
If they'd let it turn the fan off at low load they could have saved on the cost of the fan motor, no-one would know the difference. It's literally impossible to get this thing to 50% capacity with modern consumer high end kit - an entire system with a modern titan X only takes 263W, peaking at 300W initially. Given the overheads involved for the CPU in that figure, a twin card SLI rig shouldn't get anywhere near 600W
Quad SLI is possible. Or even just Quad cards with doing compute work. But yeah, it's pretty niche.
Would be nice for a workstation rocking dual CPU's and quad GPU's etc. but this is definitely not for your average home PC haha!

Another piece of hardware to put on my “lottery win rig” list though!