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Now let's begin with the testing of the power supplies! Both power supplies were installed
in the infamous Antec SX1040B. Testing was done with FAD cruching constantly in the background
because these two high quality power supplies had little fluctuation between FAD running and
turned off. The specs to my computer used for testing:
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Asus 5424A CDRW
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Lite-On 16x DVD-Rom
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2 x Seagate 40 Gigabyte Hard Drive
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Radeon 9600 Pro modded with ThermalTake Giant II
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AMD 2500+ @ 2.37 GHz @ 1.85v
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Corsair HydroCool200
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1 GB of PC2100 ram @ 284 MHz @ 2.7v
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2 x Antec 80 mm LED fans
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1 x 80mm Antec fan
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1 x 80mm 3 pin no name brand fan
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My Corsair unit throughout the time was running on a normal mode, and Turbo was
kept off throughout the entire tests.
In order to prove that there was little fluctuation with FAD on and off on all
power supply tests, here are the screen shots:
Computer Idle FAD Off
Computer Idle FAD On
Yes, there is a power fluctuation, but it is well within tolerances and we should not worry too much.
Now let's take a look at the Fortron idle:
And the Antec idle:
While the computer idles, both power supplies voltages were very close to each other.
Under load, which was an infinite loop of 3dmark2001 and immediately after I captured a screen shot
of the Fortron unit this is what it looked like:
And the Antec held its ground with comparable numbers:
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