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[LavCat]

I have to disagree. The Silencer is a Seasonic design, but the Turbo-Cool is quite different. Compare the pictures of the internals in the link you posted to pictures of the internals of the Turbo-Cool:

What exactly are you disagreeing with and why?

Just because it's a Win-tact design instead of a Seasonic design, it's still just a company that sub-contracts out to another company to build the PSUs. Yes, PC P&C pays extra for an exclusivity agreement with Win-tact. Why, as a consumer, do I care? Important outputs like ripple, transient response, warrantee, lifetime, safety, component quality, etc... is plenty good with other (often less expensive) designs... it's still made in taiwan, it's just another PSU vendor.

I'm not saying, nor do I think that PC P&C are a bad company. Not at all. They just are no longer unique in the industry anymore. Corsair does this, Antec does this, most of the big name PSUs do this, just not with an exclusivity agreement, so they tend to be priced better.

When it was a niche market and PC P&C was the only one building high quality PSUs they were great. Now, it's another brand in a sea of excellent power supplies and unless you need something custom, like you apparently did, there's no reason to lock yourself out of considering all the other high quality power supplies in the market.

I thought you were saying PCP&C rebranded OEM designs, rather like grocery store brand cornflakes. If instead you are saying there are more brands of good power supplies available today than there were twenty years ago, then I agree with you.

There is nothing inherently wrong with contract manufacuring. Apple does not manufacture much of their own hardware, but many people would agree, if nothing else, that their products are unique.

It is Jarulf's fault for starting such a contoversial topic.