Reviews & awards

Installation is exactly what you would expect from a well-designed fully modular PSU. Replacing a power supply often means removing the old cabling and rebuilding the cable management from scratch, so the process naturally takes time depending on the number of cables involved.

Regardless of the case, it makes sense to connect the essential cables to the PSU first: CPU power, the motherboard’s 24-pin connector, and GPU power. Secondary cables can remain connected at the edge of the unit until needed.

Cable management is straightforward. The cables are flexible, while the connectors seat securely without any looseness. The PSU fit perfectly in our test build and, more importantly, it disappeared acoustically during use—both at idle and while the entire system was under stress testing.

The Seasonic PRIME TX-1600 Noctua Edition is, quite simply, one of the best power supplies available today. There are no meaningful reservations to make about its build quality, internal design, or the after-sales support offered by Seasonic.

The Seasonic–Noctua partnership has produced a 1600W, Titanium-certified PSU that operates almost silently, uses top-tier internal components, and comes backed by a 12-year warranty.

At approximately 600€, this is an investment rather than a routine component purchase. It is not the kind of PSU most people need simply to finish a standard gaming PC build. But if you are assembling a high-end gaming rig or workstation with an RTX 5090, RTX 3090, or multiple similarly demanding GPUs, and you want one of the very best PSUs money can buy. Τhis is among the strongest choices on the market.

Most importantly, it comes from a manufacturer that designs and builds its own power supplies.