Very good PSU that is let down by being very overpriced and short warranty length compared to it's rivals.
by pastymuncherThis is my honest opinion of this PSU. I was sent one of these by OCUK/BeQuiet for the purposes of reviewing it. I found it to be a good looking, high quality, solidly built unit with quality heavy black braiding on the cables.It is very efficient and very quiet at the maximum load I was able to apply to it (367w at the wall) using OCCT's PSU torture test. It has a BeQuiet Silentwings 3 135mm fan which although it remained inaudible for the whole of the 90 minute torture test does a fine job of keeping the internals cool. Ambient air temperature was 18.7 degrees C yet near the end of the 90 minute test the PSU exhaust temperature was only 22.5 degrees C.The specs of the pc it was powering are as follows:-Intel i7 4790k overclocked to 4.6Ghz @ 1.26vAsus Maximus VI Hero4x 4Gb Samsung Green overclocked to 2133mhz 9-10-10-21-1T @1.5v with most second and third timings also tightened upInno3D GTX 1070 iChill X3Creative Soundblaster Z2x 200mm Aerocool Silentmaster fans (rear exhaust)2x 200mm Bitfenix Spectre Pro fans (front intake)Zalman ZM-MFC2 multifunction controllerLamptron FC2 fan controllerWatercoolingAlphacool VPP655 Vario with Heatkiller D5 topAlphacool Eisblock XPXAquacomputer GTX 1070/1080 full cover blockEK-MOSFET ASUS M6GCoolgate CG360 360mm radCoolgate G2 360mm rad6x Powercool Glacier 120mm fan6x OCUK/Silverstone SST-FQ121WC 120mm fans1x XSPC water temperature monitorYou can read the full review plus pictures at https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/bequiet-straight-power-11-550w-review.18823396/At the end of the day the question is would I buy this PSU myself? At the end of the day it comes to the question of would I buy one of these PSU's? Unfortunately the answer would have to be no. Don't get me wrong, it is a excellent PSU that is very quiet and efficient, it's just extremely overpriced at it's current price of 105.95 and the warranty is only 5 Years which is considerably behind BeQuiet's rivals. The Seasonic Focus Plus 550w is gold rated and fully modular yet is 26 cheaper (even the platinum version is 9 cheaper) than the BeQuiet and has double the warranty length at 10 years. Antec's Earthwatts Pro 550w which is semi-modular has a 7 year warranty and is 30 cheaper than the BeQuiet. I think BeQuiet needs to have a solid rethink of their pricing and warranty as there is little here to justify the premium price. I give it 8/10 due to the price and warranty length. If it was competitively priced and matched the warranty of it's rivals it would have scored higher.
