The need for PSUs who can offer quiet work alongside more power and efficiency is ever-increasing. This trend has been spotted by numerous manufacturers, who have recently presented the market with their own visions of quiet PSUs. Cooler Master can’t be an exception, of course, so they decided to present, besides the already available and well-known Silent PRO series, the Silent PRO Gold series. The new series encompasses PSUs from 600 to 1200 W of power, so that most users be able to pick the appropriate model for them with ease. The model we’ve tested was the golden middle - pun intended - with an 800 W sticker on the case.

While both series belong to the silent PSU segment, the Silent PRO Gold series has additional benefits, such as the 80+ Gold efficiency certificate, compared to the Silent PRO series’ 80+ Bronze. This means that the new series has better efficiency guaranteed, losing less power in the PSU itself, which, in turn, reduces the overall heat dissipated by it. This is, however, far from being the only advantage of the new series; the architecture of the PSU itself is different. The new Silent series had additional techniques implemented into it, further reducing heat and increasing air flow. One of those is Hybrid Transformer, which reduces the transformer size by 25%, which, consequently, leads to less power being consumed. Other ones include Heat Transfer, which increases airflow, as well as Hyper Path. The rest of the characteristics, such as modularity and a single +12 V rail, are identical to the Silent PRO series. PSUs from the new series are certified to compatibility with PCs containing two or more graphics cards in SLI or Crossfire modes.

The packaging is standard and contains installation screws, as well as a user manual, and modular cables inside a carrying bag. Rubber cushions used for installing the PSU into the enclosure are missing, but having in mind the technologies implemented to reduce vibrations, we suspect that they were simply made redundant. Cables are shaped as strips, just like the Silent PRO series’ ones, and long enough for any form factor, so we can say that we’re very satisfied on that part. As far as non-modular cables go, there’s a standard 20/24 pin connector for the motherboard, as well as a 4/8-pin connector for supplying power to the CPU, but also 6-pin and 6+2-pin connectors for powering graphics cards.