Seasonic PRIME 850W Gold PSU Review

The PRIME 850W Gold is another superlative product from Seasonic aimed at the demanding enthusiast audience who has set aside ample budget for a quality power supply.

This unit delivers high quality power and technically, in a similar fashion to the 1000 watt PRIME Gold model that we reviewed back in April – there is very little to find fault with. Seasonic are surely standing proud beside these supplies as they offer a class leading 12 year warranty. Their Platinum and Titanium PRIME units are even better than the Gold PRIME supplies, but they are more expensive.

The Titanium PRIME supplies are the most visually dramatic – offering eye catching silver accents and an N shaped grill around the fan mount. The Platinum supplies look almost identical to the Gold supplies but they have gold writing to match the 80 Plus certification.

The PRIME 850W Gold achieves 92% efficiency and ripple suppression falls well within industry rated tolerance levels. The supply passed the cross load tests without a problem.

The pure modular design will appeal to a wide audience who value the neatest possible system build with all cables hidden perfectly out of sight, although I think many would prefer all flat, ribbon style cables, rather than a mixture of sleeved and ribbon style.

The Seasonic Prime 850W Gold power supply can be bought from Overclockers UK for £167.99 inc vat over HERE.

If money is no object I would actually opt for the Seasonic PRIME Titanium 850W supply which can deliver over 1000 watts while outclassing both  Gold and Platinum units significantly in all areas. It is priced at £229.99 inc vat HERE but is the companies finest power supply to date.

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Pros:

• Great build quality.
• technically solid design.
• generally quite quiet.
• 12 year warranty.
• pure modular.

Cons:

• mixture of sleeved and flat cables.

KitGuru says: Seasonic do it again. Predictable I know, but they really deserve credit for being able to produce quality power supplies in all market segments every time they try.

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