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The BeQuiet! Dark Power Pro 1200W has the same beautiful finish as the 850W model, with deep black paint which is difficult to scratch. The build quality is fantastic and the side panels are using rubber surrounds to help reduce vibration when installed into a system.
The fan is a 135mm unit, airflow optimised with a custom blade design to reduce turbulence and lower noise emissions. The fan is mounted behind a black grill, matching the overall appearance of the unit. Sleek and sexy.
One side of the Dark Power Pro 10 1200W is honeycomb vented to improve air flow around the components. At the side is a power switch and connector.
The modular panel is neatly laid out, with the hard wired cable residing at the other side. The PCIe cable connectors are all positioned in a row along the top of the chassis, with the peripheral connectors running underneath. The thick hardwired connector is rubber mounted into the chassis, which looks very nice indeed (image above right).
The Overclocking Key plugs into the white port on the modular panel. A flip of the switch on the Overclocking key switches from the default four rail factory setting to a high performance single rail mode.
Above, the overview of the BeQuiet! Dark Power Pro 10 1200W power supply. It can deliver up to 99A on the combined 12v+ rail. (107A peak for 20 ms according to the sticker). The overall wattage is rated to 1200W, with a peak to 1300w for 20ms. We shall look at this in more detail shortly.
MEGA – that looks great too. slightly out of my price league, but the SLI hardcore gamers with watercooling kits etc will love this. cant believe you built a real world system which took over 900W! wicked.
no stock in ARIA right now, had to get it from SCAN. thanks, good review.
Its a hell of a showcase, but no one, i mean no one needs one of these. 1000W is the maximum anyone could need. as shown on the closing page.
@ Diggler, actually you need to look into the point that a power supply maximum efficiency is around 50 percent load. so if your system hits around 600-700w, then this is ideal. if you can afford the extra cost.
overkill. but yea, impressive.
Seasonic make their own dont they? I think I saw their 1200W on scan recently too. must be the same, right?
Another excellent power supply from bequiet. good review, thanks.
@James The basic design will come from seasonic, but be-quiet will change it and adapt it to their needs. So you could say that they are similar, but not identical. I favor be-quiet over seasonic, because they expand the basic build from seasonic and combine it with additional features. I tried to think about, which PSU to take, enermax, seasonic or be-quiet, and now I’m pretty sure that it will be the be-quiet one.
I have used youre psu in build’s in the past.Would love to have one in my build.