Posted on 7th Dec 2011 @ 10:36 PM

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 After near perfect reviews from TechPowerUp (Aris), [H]ardOCP (Paul), CHH & now JGuru (Jeremy), the top technical reviewers in the world, we are confident that P-1000 it's Top PSU in the World position.

Performance (40% of the final score) - so... how do we score something clearly designed by wizards to completely wipe out the competition? Easy. I'll take away points as usual. From a perfect score, I find myself having to take away half a point for ripple suppression. It was real good, but not the best ever. But... I have never seen a unit average better than 0.5% regulation, either. I'm going to do something I rarely do. I'm going to put that half point back on. This is as close to the perfect power supply we're going to get, people. 10.

Functionality (20% of the final score) - lots of modular cables. Full modularity. Sleeving well done. Plenty of connectors. Lots of goodies in the box. A very nicely printed user guide. Sounds like a certain power supply is getting another 10.

Value (20% of the final score) - this unit costs $264.99 at FrozenCPU, more than some rather good 1200W units out there. Heck, the Corsair AX1200 is only about $35 more than that. And yes, that unit does have better ripple suppression than this one does. But voltage stability? Not happening. Not even that big bad Corsair can touch this monster of stability. Three 10's and counting.

Build Quality (20% of the final score) - once again, Seasonic's best work has very few items worth complaining about. The only one, in fact, is the soldering. One point gone for that. 9.

Summary 

Was the long wait for this unit to hit the marketplace worth it? Yes. Have I seen a unit outperform this one for voltage stability? No. There's only one more question that needs to be asked, people: how fast can you buy one?

The Good:

• Extremely good voltage stability - best I've seen to date
• Platinum efficiency is no problem
• Fully modular
• Has a selectable semi-fanless mode
• Excellent build quality

The Bad:

• How the hell is Seasonic going to top this one?

The Mediocre:

How the hell is anybody going to top this one?