14 DAY TRIAL // There was a time when Club 3D was only known for its graphics cards, but in the last 13 years, the company expanded its horizons, and power supply units are one of the business outlets it gained that way.
Club 3D has just introduced a new line of PSUs, or rather added two high-end models to its existing collection of high performance Switching Power Supplies.
Said two PSUs have outputs of 700W and 1000W and, more importantly, a high enough energy efficiency to earn them 80 Plus Gold certification.
More specifically, the efficiency is of up to 92%, meaning that almost no energy is wasted during operation.
80 Plus Gold is just about the best rating users can get. Sure, there are 80 Plus Platinum and 80 Plus Titanium models too, but they are very rare and expensive. Only people who want them as collectors' items will even consider those.
Anyway, the newcomers are semi-modular. That means that the core cables, the ones powering the motherboard, aren't removable.
The SATA power cables however, as well as the wires needed for every other swappable piece of hardware in a PC, are at users' discretion.
They also feature four 12 volt rails of up to 30 Amps on the 700W CSP-D700CG and 36 Amps each on the 1000W CSP-X1000CG.
All in all, the two newcomers should have an easy enough time sustaining PCs for a long time, unless multiple high-end graphics cards are installed in multi-GPU configurations (AMD CrossFireX or NVIDIA SLI). In those cases, they will have to make full use of their ability to effectively distribute all the power at their disposal.
Fortunately, PC hardware is really efficient these days too, so the Club 3D PSUs should handle anything thrown at them, although quad-SLI/CrossFire might be out of reach for the 700W PSU. Prices, sadly, haven't been disclosed.
