As power requirements grow ever higher for powerful gaming components, so too does the wattage of the PSUs built to feed them. However, more power often means more heat, more fans, and potentially more distracting fan noise. Cooler Master seems keen to buck that trend with the announcement of its X Silent family of PSUs, two of which use no fans at all.
Both the Cooler Master X Silent Edge Platinum 850W and 1100W models make use of passive cooling through the integration of heatpipes built in to the aluminium casing, something Cooler Master refers to as "an innovative modularized thermal structure" (via Tom's Hardware), which is a fancy way of saying that the PSU case itself cools the heavy duty internals within.
