Disassembly
Here are some shots of the product internals.
First off, we would like to thank all our… fan. A single SanAce 120 powered off the main PCB of the unit does cooling duties.
A top view of the internal component shows us the meat and why this PSU is longer.
The unit shell has thermal pads lining the underside of the PCB to dispense the heat from the MOSFETs through the PSU housing.
Soldering is clean and rock solid.
The SATA/MOLEX and 24-pin modular ports are connected to a separate PCB which also houses the units’ VRM section. There is an IC in the back of the PCB that handles VRM duties for the unit. Seasonic uses a signature DC-to-DC implementation for their modular connector panel for optimal efficiency. Looking closely, you’ll see the upper connectors are wired whereas the bottom connectors which are mostly 12v lines are raised via metal pins.
At the back of the housing we see the beehive pattern exhaust grill. The AC line filter is accompanied by a gigantic On/Off switch.
Here’s a shot of the back of that front PCB. Again, clean soldering work with tons of SMD components neatly mounted.
A raised daughterboard handles the smart protection features of the Seasonic Platinum-1000. This board houses the IC that provides over-current/over-voltage protection, under-current/under-voltage protection as well as good power signal generator for guaranteed reliable power.
Trusty Nippon Chemi-con capacitors are used in this unit. Another small PCB can be seen in front of the caps which is the PWM controller.
Here we can see the primary relay plus the extra line filtering for the AC.
Nippon Chemi-Con solid caps line the primary power components which are passively cooled by heatsinks.
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Nice Seasonic!
Nice Seasonic!
wooooooo *drool*
epic yan. i was suppose to get that but out of stock sa distro. ended up with a RM1000 lol
oh, di mo na inantay? taas ng demand dito lalo na nung bitcoin craze
di ko na nahintay. excited na ako dun sa r9-280x ko na tatlong beses ko pina RMA lol
3 times? anong brand yan sir?
sapphire r9-280x toxic
What’s wrong sa kanya?
high failure rate sa early batches ng card. problem is not limited to sapphire but is also prevalent in other brands as well. the defective cards are producing artifacts/glitches/or whatever you like to call them right out of the box at stock settings. the exact reason is unknown but a lot of people are blaming the hynix memory used for the cards. earlier batches of the sapphire 280x toxic used hynix, succeeding batches used elpida. the problem wasnt completely fixed but the fail rate for the succeeding batches was significantly reduced. no amount of troubleshooting of any kind will fix it except for RMA. my first 2 cards were hynix, my card now is elpida.
ofcourse the newer elpida cards are slower in mining than hynix, but since i dont mine, that thing doesnt matter to me .. haha
pchub has an ongoing sale right now on the sapphire 280x toxic priced at 15k. i kept asking them what version is the vbios of these cards for sale and the memory used.. they couldnt answer me. its tempting to crossfire but without the proper info on which version they are selling, i’d rather not risk getting a defective card.
that news flew by me even though i had like 3-4 R9 280X for review. thanks for the info. I see some 280X right now going for as low as 10K on sale. They say its new but can’t say for sure. Yes, very tempted also but I’d wait out for a proper maxwell. Heck even a 750ti with SLI support would be on my target list if ever it comes out.
im not surprised it did not show during your review. i have the impression that engineering / review samples are usually stress tested first before they are sent out.
yann!!!