14 DAY TRIAL // Enermax may be a prime supplier of power supply units for the whole world, pardon the pun, but it doesn't always sell its products under its own brand. And sometimes it takes commissions. Such is the case with the MaxPlatinum PSU series, sold now by Lepa.
As you can probably guess from the name, the power supply units have an efficiency high enough to earn them the 80 Plus Platinum rating.
In theory, this is the second best rating on the scale. In practice, it's better than the vast majority of high-end PSUs, which boast 80 Plus Gold rating instead.
80 Plus Platinum means that a PSU has an efficiency of 92% at 20% load, 94% at 50% load, and 89% at 100% load.
Considering that the new MaxPlatinum PSUs have 1050W (P1050M) and 1700W wattages (P1700M), that's a lot of power just itching to be used.
The main traits of the MaxPlatinum PSU series
Besides the 80 Plus Platinum efficiency, the power supplies exhibit different behaviors depending on what type of power socket they are connected to. Or at least the P1700M does.
While the P1050M can provide 1050W both when connected to 115VAC and 230VAC power grids, the P1700M can work at its fullest only in the latter case. In the former, it is limited to 1,375W.
That means that if you live in Japan or some areas of North America, you might have to live with that, assuming you even buy the thing if the drawback applies to you. Not that there are many high-wattage PSUs that can provide 1,375W in those conditions. You're probably better off just buying the special P1375M variant for those regions instead.
In any case, the new PSUs have a 24-pin ATX, two 8-pin EPS cables, twelve SATA cables, eight MOLEX connectors and one Berg.
However, the P1050M only has six 6+2 pin PCIe connectors, while the P1700M and P1375M possess eight each. And since the PSUs are all modular (semi-modular for the P1050M), you get to choose which cables to connect, saving space and maximizing airflow.
Availability and pricing
Unfortunately, Lepa did not share this information, so we don't know when the MaxPlatinum PSU line will start shipping, or for what prices. It shouldn't take too long though, a matter of days or weeks at most, and the tags will both matter and not matter, since the only ones likely to look at power supplies this high-end are the ones with more money than everyone else anyway.