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In a nutshell: Seasonic is launching its most powerful consumer-grade Prime power supply to date. The new Prime PX-2200 is designed to handle demanding workloads today – and years into the future – with an impressive total continuous power capacity of 2,200 watts and the sort of bells and whistles you'd expect from a flagship PSU. The only problem is that one major market won't have access to it.
Seasonic's latest is ATX 3.1 and PCIe 5.1 compatible, and sports an 80 Plus Platinum efficiency rating (92 percent efficiency at 50 percent load). It utilizes an all-modular cable design and comes with enough connectors to cover most any practical hardware setup, including up to four Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics cards.
Other amenities include digital fan control with a silent operation mode paired with a 135mm fluid dynamic bearing fan. Seasonic notes that this type of fan bearing generates less operating noise and heat than traditional ball bearing fans, and has a longer lifespan. Indeed, the unit comes backed by a generous 12-year warranty.
The PSU maker also boasts of a micro tolerance load regulation variance of just one percent, allowing the unit to deliver a clean and stable supply of juice. For comparison, Intel's specification allows for five percent variance.
If that all sounds too good to be true, well – it is, at least for those in the US. Common household outlets in the US run on a 15-amp circuit and can only handle a maximum of 1,800 watts. Most homes also have 20-amp circuits that go up to 2,400 watts, but those are typically reserved for high-power appliances like you would typically find in the kitchen.
As such, Seasonic is not selling the Prime PX-2200 PSU stateside. It is, however, available in China and will be coming to Europe and the rest of the world (except North America) by the end of the third quarter. Pricing is set at $499.99 / €579.90. Fair deal, overkill? How does the 12-year warranty factor in?