Review: Be Quiet! Dark Power 13 - 1000W PCIe 5.0 PSU

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/24/2023 02:06 PM | source: | 8 comment(s)

Be quiet! has been brewing an ATX 3.0 compatible power supply for a while now, meet the Dark Power 13. Initially released as 1000W, 850W, and 750W models we'll check out the first one. Now, don't let the non-pro title fool you, this series is carrying a Titanium 80Plus certification. Also, it comes with a 600W 12VHPWR connector.

Read the review here.

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JiveTurkey
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#6096678 Posted on: 01/26/2023 08:24 AM

It was 20 years ago when I got my first enermax multi rail and we learned we wanted to use right plugs to split the load, cpu on one rail, gpu on second rail. My dark power 11 even says to use connectors 1 and 3 for large single gpu to split the load. Of course under single rail none if this would matter.

Even among tech sites, it is rare to find an engineer with the speciality to truly addess the multi vs single rail question.

Wish I had bookmarked it, but recently found just such a thing. Short answer was, iirc, unless extreme overclocking it does not matter to us. Also that modern psu with all the digital circuits it matters even less.

Also, he said, a properly engineered psu can function as both. Sounds like manufacturers are just trying to appeal to confused consumers over an irrelevant/outdated distinction.

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#6096931 Posted on: 01/26/2023 08:30 PM

If it is just a safety fuse function on the different rails I am fine with it.
If it is like my old Corsair 1000W that is build with 2x 500W PSU in the same case and no rail 1 or 2 indication, it is super easy to connect everything to the same rail and overpower one rail.
Had to go through the outputs with a multimeter to find out what rail was what output.

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#6097439 Posted on: 01/28/2023 02:24 AM

Nice.

Wonder when we start seeing some 600W 12VHPWR connector equipped SFX PSU's?

THeres the ROG Loki for that

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