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AMD is lagging behind a little, but Intel and Nvidia clearly show what the latest trend is: better performance at a lower level of power consumption. As a result, even a 500 watt power supply is more than enough for a PC with a powerful processor and...
It's been a while since we did a group test of PC power supplies, so today we'll take a closer look at 19 PSUs in the 500-550 watt segment. While 500 watts might sound low in the ears of most hardware enthusiasts, for the vast majority of PCs it's...
Recently when we've tested power supplies we regularly received comments about the fact that we test the efficiency of PSUs beginning at 200 watts. That's because the energy consumption of modern desktop PCs with Ivy Bridge or Haswell processors is...
Three manufacturers sent us their new power supplies for the 500/550 watt segment. From Antec we received the VP550F, Cooler Master sent us the 500W B series model and Nexus provided their new NX-5000 V1. We will compare them to 22 other recently...
