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Review on be quiet! Straight Power 11 850W by Micha Dbrowski ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Everything about the product satisfied me, the price is perfect.

I have a case for an EATX motherboard (larger than usual), the cables are long enough (in the previous unit, the cord barely reached the CPU power connector). I took this block because of good reviews + because of. service in 2022. The last block after several years of work broke down, and there was no place to fix it (my fiery hello to the thermal tee). It won't happen this time.

Pros
  • German. Instruction in 2022. There is an official service in 2022. Warranty 5 years. Lightweight (less than 2kg), compact, quiet. Detachable cables (every single one).
Cons
  • The printed instructions are incomplete: I went to the site, downloaded the instructions. The full version has drawings, recommendations, incl. important phrase: "Please make sure the load is evenly distributed across the 12V lines 12V3 and 12V4: connect PCIe1 and PCIe3 when using two PCIe cables; connect PCIe2 when using only one PCIe cable." I have a graphics card with 2 additional power supplies, so I connected PCIe1 + PCIe3 - these are ports on the block, i. E. two different cables, and not one, as it could also be. With German practicality, they were too clever: there are cables with 4 sata plugs (as usual, and this is the norm) and there are cables with 2 sata and 2 molex (combined). In my opinion, it was necessary to separate: a cable with molexes, a cable with sata, no need to combine, it’s not convenient. Maybe the electronic engineers wanted to get confused here with the balance, I don’t know. I also confused the cable for the motherboard: on the one hand, these are the usual 20 + 4 pins, and on the other - 20 pins + 8 pins . No, it’s clear that you won’t shove the wrong end into the wrong port if you suddenly try. But you, guys, would display this in the instructions, they say, these 2 ends in the block should be shove exactly here and there, and what is on the mother, see the instructions for the mother. On a whim, you still understand, but for the first 2-3 minutes it’s dumb to shove something in the wrong place and burn something. Again, you can’t shove the unimpressed in the wrong place - probably counting on this. But still, the instructions could be written in more detail, since more than 10k is paid for the product and since the rest of the system components depend on it. A nitpick: there are no such blocks in white version.