be quiet! Pure Power 12 Spec and Price in Germany
Pure Power 12 was be quiet!'s entry into the ATX 3 era and it is the fixed-cable one: the sleeved flat cables are wired in, which keeps the price down and the 160mm chassis simple. Inside is LLC topology, a 120mm rifle-bearing fan tuned for silence rather than airflow, and a 12V-2x6 cable in the box for a PCIe 5.1 card. Efficiency is 80 PLUS Gold, up to 93.7%. Five wattages run from 550W to 1000W, and be quiet! covers all of them for ten years.
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The last tracked price for the 550W be quiet! Pure Power 12 in Germany was 65,45 € at Amazon.de, captured 2026-10-12. Across one tracked merchant and 883 days of recorded prices, the 90-day median for the 550W be quiet! Pure Power 12 is 69,50 € and the lowest recorded price is 30,13 €. This site began capturing prices on July 30, 2026; for Amazon listings, prices dated earlier come from Keepa's price history.
Captured periodically and may have changed.
- 550W
- 650W
- 750W
- 850W
- 1000W
Each point is one day's recorded price, not a list price. Points dated before July 30, 2026, when this site began capturing prices, come from Keepa's Amazon price history. How we track prices
Specifications
- Wattage
- Efficiency
- 80 Plus Gold
- Form factor
- ATX
- Modular
- Non-modular
- ATX version
- 3.1
- Fan size
- 120 mm
- Length
- 160 mm
- 12V-2x6 connectors
- 1
- PCIe 8-pin
- 2
- SATA connectors
- 5
- Noise
- 18.2 dBA
- Warranty
- 10 years
Wattages
| Configuration | Part number | Fan size | Length | Current best price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 550W | BP001U2 | 120 mm | 160 mm | 65,45 € Price too old to confirm |
| 650W | BP002U2 | 120 mm | 160 mm | 73,81 € Price too old to confirm |
| 750W | BP003U2 | 120 mm | 160 mm | 79,80 € Price too old to confirm |
| 850W | BP004U2 | 120 mm | 160 mm | 89,80 € Price too old to confirm |
| 1000W | BP005U2 | 120 mm | 160 mm | 109,80 € Price too old to confirm |
What owners and reviewers say
Summarised from 2 source(s), reviewed September 13, 2026. A source is counted only where it names this model exactly. How we track prices
Commonly praised
- Excellent efficiency in a fully modular design with solid voltage regulation and a ten-year warranty.
- Compliant with the latest power standard.
- Owners describe it as quiet and easy to install, including in smaller form-factor builds.
- Some owners specifically wanted the fixed cabling and low cable count, and consider it good value.
- It powers demanding CPU and GPU combinations without complaint.
- The long warranty is noted positively.
Commonly criticised
- High price for its wattage, no hybrid fan mode, and it gets noisy when heavily stressed.
- Owners say the fixed cables add clutter and that the low cable count limits drive-heavy or workstation builds.
- The 24-pin and 12VHPWR cables ship with heat shrink and zip ties that owners had to cut away to route them in tight cases.
- One owner reports the unit arrived nonfunctional and not delivering enough power to the motherboard.
Sources behind this summary
- Newegg — 5 out of 5 (9 ratings), as of September 15, 2026
- Tom's Hardware — review
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Sources
Every spec above was pulled from one of these — a field a source didn't state was left off rather than estimated.