Inadequate and Deceptive Product Labeling: Comparison of 21 Power Supplies

Voltage Drop - Fixed-Voltage Regulators Under Load

Resistive power resistors (50 watts) are used to create the loads.

Due to the absence of a heat protection facility on AMD Athlon XP processors, a dangerous situation can arise if the motherboard’s protective circuit does not function reliably. Precise details on the combined output of the three different voltage ranges (3.3, 5 and 12-Volt) are not specified by all power supply manufacturers. The Enermax and Antec stand out from the crowd with their good documentation of these figures. Manufacturers’ specifications are an important source of information, at AMD and Intel, upon which this comparison test is based.

Silent : the fan of the Verax power supply is motionless, although it is, in fact, working. The fan does not kick in until the load is higher.