13 May 2013 - 05:58
When you're assembling a basic system with or without an entry-level card you don't need more than 300-450 watts to power it. These PCs also benefit from a good and stable PSU, but there's a lot of junk available in this lower segment. We thought that was a good reason to separate the wheat from the chaff, so we put 39 power supplies through our standard testing proce...
26 March 2013 - 05:58
Zalman sent us two of their 500W power supplies, the ZM500-GS and the ZM500-GT. We tested and compared them to 20 other 500 watt and 550 watt PSUs.
15 May 2013 - 16:01
EVGA has developed a new power supply, the Supernova 1000 G2. As the name suggests, the new creation offers a 1000 W capacity. It's fully modular and is 80 Plus Gold certified.
The 1000 watts PSU features a single +12V rail which can deliver up to 83.3 amps. EVGA has used Japanese capacitors and a 140 mm 'Double Ball' bearing fan should keep the internals cooled. Var...
15 May 2013 - 08:45
It was recently revealed that not all power supplies are compatible with the efficient C6 and C7 power states of Intel's new Haswell processors. The Haswell processors are capable of almost entirely disabling themselves, thereby reducing their power to 0.05 amps in sleep mode. The ATX12V v2.3 standard specifies a minimum of just 0.5 amps. Some power supplies aren't ca...
