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

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Nice. Wonder when we start seeing some 600W 12VHPWR connector equipped SFX PSU's?
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And if this super 12VHPWR power cable is melting, the Be Quiet! is buy a new VGA for me?
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Stratos2k22:

And if this super 12VHPWR power cable is melting, the Be Quiet! is buy a new VGA for me?
Why don't you read up on the warranty and become informed?
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I do not understand the 4 rails. Is it more efficient or clean to use separate rails? The 12 volt pwr needs to use 2 rails to deliver 600W, so those 2 rails will be connected by the GPU to become 1 rail. The same goes when using 3x 8 pins for a GPU, they will all just get connected to become one common rail in the GPU.
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I think it's a safety feature more than anything else
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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 Sounds like manufacturers are just trying to appeal to confused consumers over an irrelevant/outdated distinction.
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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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AuerX:

Nice. Wonder when we start seeing some 600W 12VHPWR connector equipped SFX PSU's?
THeres the ROG Loki for that
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