Silverstone Olympia OP1200 1200W Power Supply
Category: Power Supply
Manufacturer: Silverstone
Provided by: Silverstone
Model: OP1200 1200W
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The Test
For the testing purposes, Olympia OP1200 provided by Silverstone was installed in the system with the following components:| Test Platform | |
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHZ |
| Motherboard | Asus P5K Premium |
| RAM | 4GB (2x2GB) G.Skill DDR2 1000 |
| Graphics card(s) | eVGA 8800 GTX |
| Drive(s) | 3x36GB WD Raptors ADFD in RAID 0, 2x320GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 in RAID 1 |
| CPU Cooling | Swiftech MCP 650 Water Pump, Apogee GT, Dual Heatercore radiator |
| Sound | Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic |
| Other Devices | Asus DRW-0804P Optical Drive, Media Card reader/Floppy Drive combo |
| Fans | 5x120mm, 1x80mm, 1x60mm, 1x40mm, Corsair Dominator RAM cooler |
| Case | LIAN LI PC-V2100B |
| Operating System | Vista Ultimate 32-bit |
Idle voltages were measured by powering the system at the default speeds, and voltages with no applications were running for at least 30 minutes.
The load condition was established by running loops of the SM graphics test from 3DMark06 at 1600x1200 resolution with enabled 8x AA and 16x AF and Orthos (4 cores) at the same time for 24 hours. All voltage rails were measured with digital multimeter by tapping into various connectors. In addition to these stressful applications running, the loaded system was overclocked and overvolted to add more demand to the CPU and graphics card.
Noise level.
Some of the earlier online reviews of the Silverstone Olympia OP1200 1200W power supply talk about some noise that is coming out from the unit under load.
In my case, I haven't noticed any unusual noise or sound coming from power supply. The Olympia OP1200 was quiet and cool all the time during my load testing.