Introduction and Features

Stellar performance and very quiet.

It’s always a happy day at the PC Perspective Test Lab when the delivery truck drops off a new Seasonic power supply for evaluation! Seasonic is a well-known and highly respected OEM that produces some of the best PC power supplies on the market today. In addition to building power supplies for many big-name companies who re-brand the units with their own name, Seasonic also sells a full line of power supplies under the Seasonic name. Their new Snow Silent Series now includes two models, the original 1050W and the new 750W version we have up for review.

The Snow Silent Series power supplies feature a stylish white exterior along with top level Seasonic build quality. The Snow Silent-750 is a next generation XP-Series (XP2S) power supply that comes with fully modular cables and a 120mm cooling fan with Fluid Dynamic Bearings. It features an upgraded S3FC Hybrid Fan Control Circuit that provides fanless operation up to ~50% load. The Snow Silent-750 is designed to provide high efficiency (80 Plus Platinum certified) and tight voltage regulation with minimal AC ripple.

Seasonic Snow Silent 750W PSU Key Features:

•    High efficiency, 80 Plus Platinum certified
•    Fully Modular Cable design with flat ribbon-style cables
•    Seasonic Patented DC Connector Panel with integrated VRMs
•    Upgraded Hybrid Silent Fan Control (S3FC: Fanless, Silent and Cooling)
•    120mm Fan with Fluid Dynamic Bearings (FDB)
•    Ultra-tight voltage regulation (+2% and -0% +12V rail)
•    Supports multi-GPU technologies (four PCI-E 6+2 p connectors)
•    High reliability 105°C Japanese made electrolytic capacitors
•    Active PFC (0.99 PF typical) with Universal AC input
•    Dual sided PCB layout with dual copper bars
•    Energy Star and ErP Lot 6 2013 compliance
•    7-Year manufacturer's warranty worldwide

PSU Testing Methodology

Establishing an accurate load is critical to testing and evaluating a PC power supply.  PCPerspective’s power supply test bench can place a precise DC load on the PSU under test.  Each power supply is tested under controlled, real-world conditions up to its maximum rated load (at 40ºC), using both 115 VAC and 240 VAC line voltage.  Our current suite of tests includes:

•    DC Load Regulation
•    AC Ripple and Noise
•    Efficiency
•    Differential Temperature
•    Noise

The Seasonic Snow Silent-750 power supply was evaluated on both features and performance.  A full range of equipment was used to test the power supply under controlled load conditions.  

•    (2) CSI3710A Programmable DC load (+3.3V and +5V outputs)
•    (4) CSI3711A Programmable DC load (+12V)
•    (3) 218W Precision resistor load bank (+12V)
•    Switchable precision resistor load bank (-12V and +5VSB)
•    Agilent 34401A digital multimeter (Accuracy ±0.0035% vDC)
•    Extech 380803 Power Analyzer (Accuracy ±0.5% of full scale)
•    DS1M12 "StingRay" digital oscilloscope (20M S/s with 12 Bit ADC)
•    Powerstat Variable Autotransformer, 1.4 KVA, 0-140 VAC
•    Extech Model 407738 digital sound level meter (Accuracy ±1.5 dB)

The following cables/connectors were used to connect the Snow Silent-750 to the PCPerspective power supply test equipment.
•    (1) 20+4 pin ATX
•    (1) 4+4 pin EPS/ATX12V
•    (1) 8 pin EPS12V
•    (4) 6-pin PCI-E
•    (2) SATA
•    (2) Molex

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