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Published: Oct 23, 2009 Author: Niko Lupala Editor: Amber Lupala Provider: Xigmatek Share this article:

Closer look

 
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With the PSU you get a manual, warranty card, zip ties, and four screws for mounting it in your case. The PSU itself has a dark grey case and a black fan grill, you also get a power cable with the unit.

 
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The back of the unit has a ventilation grill to ventilate out the hot air.  The unit is equipped with a 140mm fan to keep it silent and cool.

 
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On the side of the PSU you will find a sticker with the outputs, this unit has two 12V rails  at 18A each which is quite a bit below other 500W PSU's but I think this should be able to run SLI and Crossfire without any major problems.

Testing: 
Intel Core i7 920 CPU
MSI X58 Pro Motherboard
6GB Corsair DDR3
Patriot TorqX 64GB SSD
Asus 9800GT

To get idle results we idled in Windows and full load was taken while looping Pcmark Vantage.

3,3V Rail:

The 3,3V rail was rock stable, we had no flickering even under heavy load.