You can call whatever you want the "Gospel" but it doesn't make it any truer. JUst because it was manufactured by a good OEM when he reviewed it, doesn't mean Ultra couldn't just change the oem suddenly for cost reasons and even OW seems to acknowledge that. A company that's not on the level in one or two areas isn't going to suddenly develope morals in the rest of their buisiness model From an engineering standpoint, group regulated = less points of potential failure just through a lower actual part count.
Also, about not being able to just add the rails together, from our very own forum sticky:
"What is "multiple +12V rails", really?
In most cases, multiple +12V rails are actually just a single +12V source just split up into multiple +12V outputs each with a limited output capability.
There are a few units that actually have two +12V sources, but these are typically very high output power supplies. And in most cases these multiple +12V outputs are split up again to form a total of four, five or six +12V rails for even better safety. To be clear: These REAL multiple +12V rail units are very rare and are all 1000W+ units (Enermax Galaxy, Topower/Tagan "Dual Engine", Thermaltake Tough Power 1000W & 1200W, for example.)"
Most of the seasonic psus I've played with don't have a current limiter on the 12 volt rails, so if you exceed the amp rating for one of the 12 volt rails, it pulls extra amperage from the other 12 volt rail, and does so without a problem( not truly a split rail). I mention this because they appear to be the oem of a lot of the popular psus people mention in the forums as being a good choice ( Corsair for example).
About the passive pfc on some of the psus i listed:
The thread of recommended psus has several that have passive pfc so do they deserve to not be recommended? And if so then why are they stickied?
Once you get past a certain point of quality there are diminishing returns and people fail to grasp that because they're more concerned with comparing E-Weenors based on packaging specs. I still stand by the fact that the ultra is garbage just because if something does go wrong with it, you're going to have a hard time getting it straightened out. Sure it can be nice to have something nice in your system that you feel is worth bragging about, BUT HERE IN THE REAL WORLD we value reliability and cost/performance over the word of an online pundit who seems not to have a problem suggesting a person buy from a company that's not always on the level with its customers. Some of the old schoolers here may remember, that back in the day, OCZ used to put out products so bad it bordered on outright fraud. What caused them to become a reputable company people could trust again? People started avoiding their products like the plague. The company then had a management change and , poof, we end up with a company that's pretty reliable and puts out relatively good products. I'm not trying to pick on ocz, just using them as an example of what a company with bad business practices can become when people stop buying into the hype and force a change by taking their business elsewhere.
And I don't mean this as being directed at you OW, but I don't trust online reveiws as much as my personal , hands on, experience with a product due to the fact that some reveiwers are compensated for their work by the same company they're reveiwing, and don't reveal it.
In short, God could have made the ultra psu, and I still wouldn't touch it just because sheisty companies shouldn't have their bad business practices rewarded.
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