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Power Supply Torture Test
An anonymous reader writes "With the latest batch of power hungry graphics cards, the PSU in your computer is more important than ever. If you're looking for a new power supply, check out this group test. They've tested 19 PSUs - some good, some bad and some downright explosive!"
Hm, what funny looking headers:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:41:42 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
MicrosoftOfficeWebServer: 5.0_Pub
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Cache-Control: public, max-age=79911
Expires: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 11:53:34 GMT
Last-Modified: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:40:14 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 40525
(that 'MicrosoftOfficeWebServer')
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What I learned from my internship, which included fixing monitors: lightbulb glass is an excellent insulator for leaking capacitors.
1. Break light bulb into large concave pieces.
2. Cup piece around arcing leak of power supply.
You can get a couple more years out of a monitor if you don't mind the occasional pops and crackles.
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I HATE the soviet russia jokes. I almost always mod them down whenever I get mod points. They're unoriginal, and usually sound 'forced' or nonsensical.
But I have to give it to you- this was the best one I've ever seen.
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