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| Manufacturers: |
I-Star
Enermax |
| Products: |
TC-500R8A (500W)
EG651P-VE (550W) |
| Availability: |
Now |
| Authors: |
Pieter (dutchcedar) Bijleveld
John (flashawk) Smith
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| Date: |
3-25-03 |
| Price: |
TC-500R8A: $526.40
EG651P-VE: $140.00 |
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| We installed each of these units in a PC built in a LianLi PC-60 case
to run some voltage tests. The motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X standard with
an Athlon 1700XP, 2X 256MB of Crucial PC2100 DDR RAM and a VisionTek GeForce
3 64MB video card. The voltages were monitored by the hardware monitor in
the BIOS and Motherboard Monitor 5. The activity during the data transfer
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According to the BIOS, these are the voltage readings
we got with the Enermax and I-Star:
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According to the MBM5, these are the voltage readings
we got with the Enermax and the I-Star:
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While doing some serious data transfer between hard
disc drives and running Toast, with readings from MBM5, these are the
voltage readings we got with the Enermax and the I-Star:
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With one of the two power supplies turned off on the
I-Star the green remote LED and rear panel LED blink, the appropriate
amber LED turns off and an alarm sounds. After turning off the alarm,
these are the readings from MBM5 while transferring data between four
separate drives:
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I-Star Rear View In-place
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| -CPU AMD
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| 2600+ and below |  |
| 2700+ and above |  |
| AMD MP |  |
| Opteron |  |
| Athlon 64 |  |
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| -CPU Intel
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| P4/XE 2.4 & up |  |
| P4/XE 2.2 & down |  |
| Celeron |  |
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| -Memory DDR |  |
| -Memory pc133 |  |
-Hard Drive IDE (60G and lower) |  |
-Hard Drive IDE (80G and higher) |  |
| -CD/DVD/CDRWs |  |
| -nVidia video cards |  |
| ATI video cards |  |
| -LCD monitors: 15in |  |
| -LCD monitors: 17in |  |
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AMD Motherboards
XP:nForce2,VIA KT600
Opteron: nForce3, AMD8000
64: nForce3, AMD8000, K8T
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Intel Motherboards
Latest Chipset: 875P
w/Graphics: 865G
VIA: P4X
ATI: 9100 IGP
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