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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-02-13, 13:31

Nah, from what I read around the web the Voodoo 3 2000 may draw as little as only 10W. Doesn't even need additional power connector. Your Athlon Classic system is just a very light burden for the VS650, she's half-asleep while powering it. :happy: I bet the PSU's rear grill is stone cold at all …

Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-02-13, 12:52

Is reading the 5V voltage the only way to understand if the psu is stressing and overloading or you must calculate every power components? To really KNOW how much the PSU is really drawing, we need amperage meters. A Kill-a-Watt is an amperage meter that reads total system draw from the wall. It …

Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-02-13, 12:11

... does it mean that it doesn't matter if your combined 3.3V+ and 5.5V+ power consumption exceeds that of the PSU? Let say, your PSU's combined power of the 3.3V+ and 5.5V+ is only 150W, yet you can draw, say, 180W on the combined 3.3V+ and 5.5V+ as long as your total power draw (including 12V+ …

Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-02-12, 13:04

alexanrs wrote: Then I better never take pictures of the one I gutted ahahahahaha. Half the weight, but claims to deliver 50A on the 5V rails... and a maximum of 160W on 5V+3.3V combined?! ... ODwilly wrote: I have a 450watt JUST PC I should post on here for you guys to look at ... Don't be shy, …

Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-02-12, 03:51

http://i.imgur.com/JEXp7Oym.jpg ^ Ugh, gutless wonder ahead. No input filtering, no mag-amp and no toroidal (donut-shaped) coil for +3.3V. Born to be l guinea pig for soldering practice. :happy: I was pleasantly surprised at how easy things were. Soldering stuff on/desoldering from PSUs is a breeze …

Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-02-11, 16:52

BTW just for a laugh, apparently the audible 'click' from the thermistor relay is an ominous sound for some users :lol: : ... a lot of people still seem to freak out about this: that clicking noise you hear in high end units? It's supposed to be there. It's normal. Your power supply is not going to …

Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-02-11, 12:49

The VS series is at the bottom of the Corsair line. Buy by model and not just by brand. Here around the VS650 costs ~58€. For about the same money I'd get one of the fresh released Corsair CX450M , which are DC-DC regulated and thus inmune to crossloading voltage drops due to unbalanced loads (like …

Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-02-11, 10:49

... see this nice document from Chemi Con. http://www.mouser.com/pdfDocs/UCC_ElectrolyticCapacitorTechnicalNotes.pdf Nice indeed! http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Respect/respect-048.gif ... I bought a Corsair VS650 psu ... The platform is CWT GPM, cheap but passable. The caps are a poor mix …

Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-02-10, 02:39

... my PII 400/440bx/9500PRO ... ... while gaming is 85W total, doing some burn tests I might be able to get 90W at the wall, sitting on the desktop doing nothing already eats 81W ... Assuming 75% PSU efficiency that's ~70W DC total system draw from all rails at full steam. If your Kill-a-Watt has …

Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-02-09, 07:24

I've seen at least 3 people in the last couple weeks report that 20-25(ish) amps (on 5v) wasn't adequate on their similar 5v-CPU gaming systems ... I'd guess none of those systems is a frugal single PIII 440BX. Probably more power hungry Athlon Classic/XP without 'P4 connector' on mobo. Me, I would …

Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-02-08, 20:44

By the way it still seems incredible nowdays to have 1000W on a multiple rail and 150w on another.. Modern hardware demands tons of +12V but very little +5V & +3.3V, so modern PSUs are tailored accordingly. Just like they were tailored the opposite way in 2000, when the reverse was true: http:// …

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