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It seems that the campaign of efficiency is going on. Ecos Plus Load Solutions is no longer satisfied with 80Plus platinum. So they rose the bar by releasing 80Plus Titanium standard. Currently the 80Plus Titanium standard only applies to redundant using 230VAC input voltage.No device has passed this certification so far. I wonder when it will be applied to PC power supplies.

230V Internal Redundant

10% 20% 50% 100% (of rated load)

90% 94% 96% 91% (efficiency)

http://www.plugloadsolutions.com/80Plus ... plies.aspx

So soon? I mean there are hardly any 80plus platinum PSUs out there yet. The only ones I know of are a few based on the SuperFlower Golden Green platform.

As far as I know, Seasonic showed off its 80Plus platinum units at Computex 2011 months ago. Though I don't know when those units will hit the market.

Sama (a Chinese brand that I'm not familiar with. ) has a 80Plus platinum PSU too:

Nice! That PSU has all rubycon. The heatsinks look a tad small, but for an 80plus platinum unit, they're fine.

Oops, I forgot to link to the picture of the DC-DC daughter board. It has four polymers from NCC on that little board: