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  • Really Cool and Quiet Power Supplies?
    April 1, 2005 – 1:03 PM
    It's impossible to gauge the ill effects noisy power supplies have on your mental health, but needless to say, loud fans are irksome. While vendors' past attempts to deliver low-noise units were met with varying degrees of success, we see how the latest crop measures up.
  • PC Power Supplies: More Important than You Think
    August 9, 2007 – 12:04 PM
    PC Power Supplies: More Important than You Think Despite their importance and the sometimes demanding requirements they must satisfy, power supplies just don't get enough attention. We illuminate everything worth knowing about power supplies here, using Gigabyte's new Odin GT series as an illustration. The Odin family brings software monitoring and configuration into an already very interesting picture.
  • High Power For Power Users: 13 Power Supplies In The Spotlight
    June 9, 2003 – 1:01 PM
    The latest CPUs and graphics cards require robust power supplies. But watch out: the test candidates rarely delivered on their power claims. Efficiency, voltage and noise levels are a few of the important factors you need to consider before you make a purchase.
  • Power Supplies Get Smarter
    May 6, 2005 – 1:04 PM
    Four vendors say their power supplies have a lot more to offer than just serving to juice up PCs. With value-add nomenclatures such as Audio Standby and Realtime Power Meter, do their special features live up to the vendors' claims?
  • 5 Power Supplies Get the Full Juice Treatment
    February 7, 2006 – 7:07 AM
    5 Power Supplies Get the Full Juice Treatment We give five new power supply units the full juice treatment after our previous stress tests laid many supposedly high-end units to rest in the scrap heap. Did vendors take heed of the hard lessons they learned during our past tests?
  • How THG Tests Power Supplies
    July 11, 2005 – 1:04 PM
    How THG Tests Power Supplies Power supply performance specs are going through the roof, but you can't tell from looking at a device whether it will actually deliver the 600 watts it claims to. That's why we put them through their paces in the lab - and this is how we do it.
  • Computex 2007: Coolers and Power Supplies
    June 5, 2007 – 4:10 PM in CeBIT
    Computex 2007: Coolers and Power Supplies The first day of Computex held some surprises for us. We saw various useful and useless cases, new cooling solutions, and a plethora of power supplies that output up to 2,000 W.
  • Stress Test: Power Supplies Under Full Load
    July 11, 2005 – 1:04 PM
    Stress Test: Power Supplies Under Full Load We put PC power supplies from 300 to 850 watts under continuous load to see if they can satisfy the power appetite of potent Athlon and P4 systems. Are they efficient and stable? Click into the THG Laboratory to find out!
  • Cool and Quiet: HIS Radeon 9800 Pro
    December 10, 2003 – 12:03 PM
    The new HIS Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro IceQ graphics card sports an especially effective and quiet cooling solution. This brief test, the first review in our new Short Take series, demonstrates why.
  • Quick and Quiet: Pentium M Desktop Boards by AOpen and DFI
    December 24, 2004 – 12:02 PM
    Do we really need PCs with processors that use over 100 watts of power? AOpen and DFI don't think so. They have started to ship new motherboards that allow you to use Intel's power-saving mobile Pentium M platform in desktops. How well do they work?
  • Graphics Card Quiet: Gigabyte's Silent-Pipe II Cooling
    June 2, 2006 – 6:08 AM in NVIDIA
    Graphics Card Quiet: Gigabyte's Silent-Pipe II Cooling Gigabyte's Silent-Pipe II Cooling cards are designed to run silently - and they manage to hold their own against anything out there performance-wise. Harnessing their power and silence, though, requires a study in air-flow adjustments in your case.
  • Inadequate and Deceptive Product Labeling: Comparison of 21 Power Supplies
    October 21, 2002 – 1:00 PM
    Power-hungry CPUs and graphics cards call for powerful PSUs. The latest models promise a delivery of 500 watts. THG uncovers the hard reality: frequent incorrect and improper power specifications, lack of specifications documentation, and the absence of safety overload protection features lead to the destruction of the power supply and other potential hazards.
  • Getting the Right Power: 15 PC Power Supply Units
    January 22, 2004 – 12:03 PM
    Many users are unaware of the role power supply units play in the stable operation of a PC. But how do you judge one over the other before learning the hard way after buying a faulty unit? THG has tested 15 PC power supply units and details the must buys and the must not buys. We also explain and clarify how to interpret manufacturers' power unit specifications.
  • All Quiet On the PC Noise Front
    October 12, 2005 – 1:06 PM
    Systems from Hush and HFX prove that powerful PCs can also run quietly. With either an AMD or Intel Pentium M CPU inside, we look at how these PCs manage not to have noisy fans ruin your mental health.
  • Four Quiet and Powerful Mini PCs for Intel CPUs
    July 6, 2006 – 7:04 AM
    Four Quiet and Powerful Mini PCs for Intel CPUs It didn't take long for Pentium D barebones systems to make their market appearance. Now, three vendors are ready to provide support for dual core CPUs in their models, which all promise to operate quietly. Do they live up to their promises?

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