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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...
Zalman sent us two of their 500W power supplies, the ZM500-GS and the ZM500-GT. We tested and compared them to 20 other 500 watt and 550 watt PSUs. There are a lot 500W power supplies on offer in the Zalman catalog. With seven different models...
