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Published: May 19, 2009 Author: Niko Lupala Editor: Amber Lupala Provider: Arctic Cooling Share this article:

Closer look

 
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The sides has Fusion 550R stickers on them, while the back is equipped with a familiar Arctic Cooling fan which should prove to be very silent.

 
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The top is equipped with a sticker that will tell you the voltages on each rail. This PSU has the most connectors that I have seen, they have included alot of SATA connectors and PCI-E connectors although I missed a 8 pin motherboard connector.

Testing:
Intel QX6700 CPU
MSI X48 Motherboard
Asus 9800GX2 Videocard
Corsair Twinx3x2048-1600 DDR3
Gskill 64GB SSD HDD
Coolermaster M700 PSU

Testing was done vs a Coolermaster M500 PSU. Idle loads were taken while idling in Windows without any applications running. Full load was taken while looping 3dmark runs.

3.3V Rail: 

The 3.3V rail is actually rock stable even under load, lets check out what the 5V rail will give us.