Be-Quiet Quad-Rail StraightPower 600W PSU

by Marco Chiappetta — Saturday, August 26, 2006, 01:00 PM EDT

The folks at HardwareLogic have taken a look at Quad-Rail power supply from "Be-Quiet" called the StraightPower 600W. As sure you can infer from the company's name that the StraightPower 600W is supposed to be a quiet PSU, but it's also supposed to be plenty powerful as well. In the end, HardwareLogic really liked this unit but wished it had a few more features to set it apart from the competition.

"Today, more than ever, we need not only great performance from our rigs, but we are also taking a stand against hellishly hot rigs that are as loud as a rock concert. Enter Be-Quiet. This company has spent the last few years building a solid reputation for themselves across Europe,for their "cool & quiet" PC parts. The StraightPower series is their fourth generation of PSUs designed to provide near silent, high-performance power with cool temps to boot. This isn't really surprising considering that they are owned by German-based Listan International, a company that owns, among others, Arctic Cooling, Cooler Master, and Zalman."

Tags: PSU, Power, rail, ui, IE, AI

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com