We have been running with the Xilence 600W PSU for about four months now as it is one of the parts that powers our test rig, so we thought we would do a review on it to tell you our thoughts at this stage.

From a design point of view it does look pretty cool, unfortunately are aging server case does not do it justice (Incidentally the unit measures 86 x 150 x 140 mm which is standard ATX size). The black outer shell is joined by a metal grid at the front and a 120mm red fan on top which is pretty quite running from 19dB up to a max of 24dB - it keeps the heat down inside the case but at the same time stays quite.

For a heat example we put our CPU cooling fan speed to the lowest setting and took a measurement of the temperature inside the case, with our two 80mm fans the temp of the CPU was at 31oc and the main system temperature was 37oc - with the PC running at low load for 5hours. During a gaming sesh the temperature rose to 40oc CPU and 44oc System.

Connector wise you get a 20/24pin main board connector, two 6-pin PCI-E connectors for SLI and Crossfire support, 2 floppy, 6 IDE and 4 SATA. We have had this PSU rigged up to a Prescott 3.2GHz CPU. floppy drive, DVD drive, 7800GTX graphics card, Sound card, 4 USB devices, 2 x 80mm fans, 1 x 120mm CPU cooling fan, plus an SLI motherboard and we have had no problems with our setup at all.

Each connector is housed in a mess covering to protect the cables from being shredded by rubbish cases, we found the connectors were long enough to reach even in our large server case, so no problems here. Also each connector has a grip on each plug which helps when removing the power connector from the back of a drive.

The PSU is also blessed with Overload Protection, Overvoltage Protection and Over-Temperature Protection so it should be ok for doing the odd bit of overclocking - though we admit we have not dabbled with OC too much. Click here for a list of the DC Output voltages - for those that need to know these figures.

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