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Used for: 1–3 months
This lives in a garage running a small render farm node and the environment is unkind: dusty, warm, and the machine runs flat out most nights. It has not skipped once. The intake screen catches most of the dust and comes off with two screws for cleaning, which is more thought than most consumer supplies get. Sixteen hundred and fifty watts with six PCIe leads means all three cards run off their own runs with nothing shared. Noisy, but everything in that room is!
Used for: 6–12 months
Six PCIe leads and a 12V-2x6 covers any build
Neither pretty nor quiet
Not a pretty supply and not a quiet one, but it has never once dropped the machine during a load spike that would have made my old unit sulk. Six PCIe leads plus a 12V-2x6 covers anything I am likely to build
Used for: 6–12 months
1,450W sustained for hours without the output moving
The fan never stops, and it is not trying to be quiet
The ZEUS line comes from Silverstone's industrial side and it shows in ways that are both good and bad. Good: it does not care what you do to it. I have had this at 1,450W sustained on a four card box for hours and the output did not budge, and the build quality inside is properly serious. Bad: it is not a quiet supply and was never trying to be. The fan runs from the moment the machine turns on, at a constant low speed, and above about half load it becomes something you notice from across a room. If you want silence, buy the HELA instead. Cables are plain, stiff and long, which is right for a rack and wrong for a show build. Ten months of that racket and not a single fault to report.
Used for: Less than a month
Built for continuous duty, not for a spec sheet
Cables belong in a switchboard, not a window build
Bought on the basis that a supply designed for continuous duty will outlast one designed for gaming, and first impressions back that up. It is heavy, the casing is thick steel, and the cables feel like they belong in a switchboard. Handled a 5090's transient spikes on the first evening without the lights so much as blinking! Two weeks in, nothing has given me pause.
Used for: More than a year
Bought this to replace a consumer supply that had died in a machine that runs twenty four hours a day, and the whole point was to stop having that conversation again. It has now done well over a year of continuous duty. Not gaming hours, actual duty, with three cards on inference work and the meter parked between 1,100 and 1,300W for most of every day. Nothing has drifted, nothing has got hot, and the fan sounds identical to the day it went in. Things to know. It is loud in the way a server is loud, a constant broad noise rather than a whine, so it needs to live somewhere you do not sit. And at 180mm with thick unsleeved cables it wants a big case. Neither matters if you are buying it for what it is.
Used for: 1–3 months
Serious build quality
Always audible
Built like a piece of industrial kit, which is exactly what I wanted