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Recent content by Makalu

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    680watt psu question

    I'm aware of the Intel Guideline and Aspire labels...Youngyear lists the voltage regulation differently and if you go to their site you'll see this. I'm just not seeing any Aspire labeled units that actually don't keep their voltages within specs. In fact pretty much all power supplies these...
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    680watt psu question

    I think that's a meaningless statement...If they did pretend to meet "specs" would all be well with you? Shouldn't the question be do they or do they not meet specs? Or how about, do you or do you not believe power supply labels??? Go to the Youngyear site and look at the specs for the Aspire...
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    nVidia SLI Certification

    I see, so what's different on the Silverstone version?
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    nVidia SLI Certification

    oh really? the Enhance I bought a few weeks ago was wired the same as the one I bought last summer but no telling how long it'd been on the shelf. Silverstone still has the link to the page with the adapter info on their site for the unit too so what is it they've done to fix the problem? And...
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    nVidia SLI Certification

    Nvidia has listed some criteria for SLI power supplies and they imply that they've done some sort of test but I've never found what exactly that would be. ATI doesn't seem to offer any clues at all but here's the info from Nvidia: NVIDIA provides the following power supply guidelines for SLI...
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    PSU's to Avoid

    Since this is the internet and English may not be everyones first language I'll clarify some thing. I never once said that Aspire should be removed from the list. I very clearly said the exact opposite on that subject. What I do think should be removed is the comment next to it because...
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    PSU's to Avoid

    Yes but I don't believe power supply rating labels ;) Seriously though, Youngyear gives much different specs for the units. As I recall the two you tested that aren't the ones they put in their cases stayed within 3% which isn't exactly indicative of shoddy regulation to me.
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    PSU's to Avoid

    ok Jon thanks...so you don't consider them dangerous. Do you think that they are constructed outside of the 5% regulation on the 12v rails? I ask because I do think the list implies this. Also who makes the power supply in the Aspire X-qpack?
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    PSU's to Avoid

    You haven't proven that Aspire units are dangerous. I'm aware of how they use the 10% regulation to calculate wattage, I'm the one that brought it up here. Lots of other brands will give out before they reach their advertised wattage too and yet they don't seem to have this DANGER add on...
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    PSU's to Avoid

    I asked for evidence...nobody has provided anything except pussyfooting around the issue...maybe you should question who employs others, not me
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    PSU's to Avoid

    What I'm trying to say is that the units aren't out of spec and therefore Aspires claims are irrelevant. The Epower that Jonnyguru tested dropped out of specs...why isn't it on the list? The Real Power in the Xqpack is on the list but no danger warning next to it...why is that? lol well...
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    PSU's to Avoid

    I'm not quite sure what you are saying but hmm well I just don't think that Youngyears' quality control there in Outer Mongolia is shipping out units that don't meet the 5% tolerance. I agree that they are over-priced and mediocre quality and the brand name deserves to be on the list of psu's...
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    PSU's to Avoid

    I want evidence that Aspire psu's supply 12 volts outside the 5% specs. I want to see one drop to 10.8v. Just because they use a 10% tolerance to overrate their wattage is meaningless and not any more dangerous than outright lying like Cooler Master, who isn't on the list. I have to admit...
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    PSU's to Avoid

    Well I think the keyword in question is "dangerous" and if boosting wattage ratings is the criteria for the list of psu's to avoid then the list of psu's to not avoid is gonna get pretty damn short...i'll do the honors of submitting antec :)
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    PSU's to Avoid

    The "Dangerous! They don't even pretend to meet the ATX/AMD/Intel specs!" warning next to Aspire power supplies caught my eye and I think it warrants some clarification. I'm asuming that the ATX specification in question refers to the ±10% regulation of the +12v rails that the Aspire website...
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