Introduction - BE QUIET! STRAIGHT POWER PRO Bedienungsanleitung

1. INTroDUCTIoN

We welcome your decision to use be quiet! power supplies of the STRAIGHT
POWER series for your computer's current supply in future. The advantages
and special properties of your new be quiet! power supply unit have been
summed up in this comprehensive handbook to provide answers to possible
questions right from the outset.
For any further questions and technical support, please do not hesitate to get
in touch with our technical email support and mail to service@be-quiet.com or
call +49(0) 40 – 736 76 86-559. We are open from Monday to Friday from
9.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
The performance of PCs is growing steadily, thus requiring more and more
current due to the use of high-performance graphic cards and high-end CPUs,
especially on +12V lines. Power supplies of the STRAIGHT POWER series are
especially suited in terms of power reserves and for operation of PCIe graphic
cards within "SLI" or "CrossFire" double VGA card bundles.
The power supplies of the STRAIGHT POWER series have an extremely high
efficiency (up to 83% efficiency by 50% load). The resulting advantage of lower
power consumption may appear within your next electricity bill for the same
degree of PC utilization.
Functions like an active PFC (reactive power enhancement) with a so-called
power factor of >0.99 are playing an important part in an optimum capacity
utilization of the present power supply unit. In other words, such factors
ensure a reduction in the development of heat, thus extending the service
lifetime of your be quiet! STRAIGHT POWER power-supply unit. This also
provides the advantage of more stable lines coupled with a higher quality of
output signals.
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