When testing a power supply
such as this, it’s important to use a high
end system with a top of the line processor along
with many optical and hard drives. With this in
mind we used the following test rig and worked
the PSU hard for many days under heavy loads.
The test system was built
from scratch, a format of the hard drive was performed
(NTFS) and then Windows XP was installed (SP2).
Next the chipset drivers were installed. The only
update applied was .net framework 2.0 (latest
service pack). Following a reboot the Video Card
drivers were installed. Next the benchmarking
tools were installed and finally the hard drive
was de-fragmented. For all tests the ATI drivers
were set to default quality/optimisations (unless
otherwise stated).
Before we began testing
we noted the idle voltages for the unit and here
they are:
Line
Voltage
+12v
12.313
+5v
5.182
+
3.3v
3.300
The above voltages are
very good. We also noticed that as well as providing
these figures there was little fluctuation at
idle, another good sign.
TEST 1: System
benchmarks
In this test we are DivX encoding whilst running
Driver Heavens Photoshop Benchmark voltages were
recorded at 15minute intervals.
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Test
2: Gaming
For this test we ran F.E.A.R. at 1600x1200 for
90 minutes and recorded the voltages at 15 minute
intervals.
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TEST
3: Torture
For this test we have Prime95 and Memtest running
whilst we encode a video using DivX encoder and
again run Driver Heavens Photoshop Benchmark.
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