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Thirty Four PSUs Tested - Is Biggest Best?
SteveK writes "Hexus has been testing some 34 PC power supplies to see which is best. There are some interesting results. An Enermax 535 Watt PSU couldn't deliver much over 450W, while a cheap 250W PSU did exactly what it said on the box. There's also a video of a (very cheap) 650W PSU under 400W of load, requiring over 1kW of input power to sustain the load, before blowing up."
This is a pretty worthless comparison without even one sample from Antec or PC Power & Cooling.
like all things in life, if you cut corners [price wise] you'll get burnt...
... don't act very surprised.
Though to be honest I've always gone with Antec cases [Sonata series for instance] and never once had a problem with the case or PSU [specially on things like dual-core AMD and Intel processors with multiple drives and PCI-X cards].
If you paid 30$ for your 400W supply and it doesn't work
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Why did the testing procedure involve powering the supplies from what looks like a serious piece of kit delivering bang on 230Vac/50Hz. Surely an important consideration in choosing a power supply is how well it copes with a dirtier mains input?
Why doesn't the submitter just post the Coral Cache link straight off? Then we wouldn't have this problem. Or am I being dense? Surely there's no point pushing a server over if it's obvious to all that it will not survive the slashdotting.
one or two words depending on how you look at it, but let me put it in slashdot style
1) Split story onto many many pages
2) Sell more ads
3) Profit!!!!
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
Some networks don't allow requests to nonstandard ports like 8090 that Coral Cache uses.