Power Supply Buyer's Guide

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Q: Is this 2 +12V sources splited into multiple +12V rails? R they individually regaulated?:s11:

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Silverstone Strider Plus Series 850W Modular PSU
If you have used Silverstone Power Supplies in the past, then you know Silverstone had their older Strider Series power supplies ranging from 350W to 1500W. These PSUs also ranged from non-certified PSUs to 80Plus Silver Certified on the 1500W power supply. This time however, Silverstone decided to release their new Strider Plus Series power supplies ranging from 750W to 1000W in a full 100% modular design. All of these power supplies already come 80Plus Silver certified, which means that you will have high quality, low heat, and a more efficient power supply.
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Enermax Tomahawk 500 W Power Supply Review
Enermax Tomahawk 500 W is a short power supply, being only 5 ½” (14 cm) deep, using a 120-mm fan on its bottom and active PFC circuit, of course.

Being an entry-level product, it doesn’t have a modular cabling system. Only the main motherboard cable and the ATX12V cable have a nylon protection. All cables use 18 AWG wires, which is the minimum recommended.
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Silverstone Strider Plus 1000W Review
In the months since the 80 Plus people decided to add multiple levels to their efficiency certification program, power supply companies have responded by making their offerings more and more efficient to take advantage of the new Bronze, Silver, and Gold categories. One of these companies is Silverstone Technology.

Today, we'll be looking at the brand new Strider Plus platform, an updated and more efficient version of their older Strider series. At one thousand watts, the ST1000-P promises to do everything its older Strider cousins did, only more efficiently.
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XFX XPS 650W XXX Edition Power Supply Review
It's been a little while since XFX entered the power supply market with their excellent 850W Black Edition unit, which I reviewed a little while back. Since then, they've added to their offerings a number of lower powered units that promise all the same performance at a lower wattage and price point. Today's review sample is the 650W XPS unit, XXX edition. Let's see how it fares in comparison to big brother.
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XFX 750 W Black Edition Power Supply Review
XFX may be a newcomer on the power supply market, but so far the other two models from them we reviewed, 650 W XXX Edition and 850 W Black Edition proved to be outstanding products. Let’s see if their latest model, 750 W Black Edition, follows the same path.

Like 850 W Black Edition, the 750 W version is manufactured by Seasonic and, in fact, it is a relabeled Seasonic M12D, which proved to be one of the best 750 W power supplies in the market today. Therefore XFX 750 W Black Edition enters the market to fight against this model from Seasonic and Corsair HX750W, as they all use a DC-DC design, i.e. the power supply is basically a +12 V model, with +5 V and +3.3 V outputs being produced by two smaller power supplies attached to the power supply main +12 V rail.
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/933

Enermax Modu87+ 500W Power Supply Review
The Modu87+ series have varying models ranging from 500W to 900W. If you haven’t guessed it quite yet the Modu87+ series are a modular product which is a huge benefit when it comes to cable management in your chassis. Today we will be looking at the 500W unit so without further ado let’s take a closer look at this new series from Enermax and see how it holds up.
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How to Discover Your Power Supply Real Manufacturer
More and more traditional companies from other segments are entering the PC power supply market. However, the majority of them actually don’t manufacture their products. In this short tutorial we will teach you how to find out who is the real manufacturer of a given power supply.

We can separate power supply companies into three groups: the ones that design and manufacture their own products (the minority), the ones that design their own products but hire another company to manufacture the products for them, and the ones that use OEM products, i.e. another company designs and manufactures their products, but adding the label, box and manual from the contracting company. Almost all well-known manufacturers that aren’t originally from the power supply business fall in this last category.
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OCZ Z Series 850 W Power Supply Review
OCZ Z Series is the 80 Plus Gold-certified power supply family from OCZ, and so far they released an 850 W and a 1,000 W model. We have already reviewed the 1,000 W model, and let’s see now if the 850 W model will live up to the expectation.

Besides OCZ Z Series 1000 W, so far we’ve already reviewed two other 80 Plus Gold power supplies: Enermax MODU87+ 700 W and Seasonic X-Series 650 W.

If you read our review of the 1,000 W model you already know that both are basically the same power supply, with some components (rectifying bridges, primary capacitors and the addition of a third transistor on the active PFC circuit) upgraded on the 1,000 W model.
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/946
 

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XFX XPS Black Edition 750W Review
Not too long ago, XFX came to me with their 850 watt Black Edition power supply, which quickly proved that this company was serious about making waves in a very competitive market. Today, I'll be looking at the junior model in the XPS Black Edition line in the 750 watt unit. Is it as good as big brother? Better? Worse?

Folks, the packaging on this power supply has asked me to "play hard," and that's exactly what I plan to do. Join me, won't you?
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