How much power could you use???

Try 8 AMD Opteron 850s and those 54 amps on +12 will go down the tubes pretty quick. Throw in some 4 platter 15K SCSI drives and you can put an even bigger dent in that +12 current. 32GB of DDR400 will take care of +3.3. I wouldn't worry too much about +5 though :) Gamer/consumer system? Naaaw, that won't make a PCP&C 510 SLI sweat. But an 8 CPU server? Now we're talking.
 
Watts don't mean squat, it's amps you need, and on the proper rails. Look at the stickies!!!

And for that price you could have bought a real PSU like an Antec, an OCZ, a really nice Zippy or a Fortron blue storm, heck almost two Blue Storm 400's, and it only has 26 A on a single +12v rail, probably only 5% regulation also, they don't mention any of the following important specs: regulation percentage, rated operating temperature, and max combined +3.3, +5, and +12 loads, I.E. the all important crossloading. Plus, no 24 pin connector,so you are stuck in the past. At least the pic of it is pretty.
 
Ronbo said:
Watts don't mean squat, it's amps you need, and on the proper rails. Look at the stickies!!!

And for that price you could have bought a real PSU like an Antec, an OCZ, a really nice Zippy or a Fortron blue storm, heck almost two Blue Storm 400's, and it only has 26 A on a single +12v rail, probably only 5% regulation also, they don't mention any of the following important specs: regulation percentage, rated operating temperature, and max combined +3.3, +5, and +12 loads, I.E. the all important crossloading. Plus, no 24 pin connector,so you are stuck in the past. At least the pic of it is pretty.
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I THINK you are talking to me, although you didn't quote my post so I'm not sure. If you're not, you can disregard this one. It does have a 24 pin connector, so that's why I'm not sure if you're talking to me or not.

I don't know about the 26A, but it seems to work great for me. I don't have any spikes or dips in the power. I don't have any crashing. Everything seems to work great. The only problem I am having is overclocking the CPU, but I can't tell if that is a board, CPU, PS or RAM problem. All I know is that it ticks me off because I wanted to play around a little bit for something to do.

However, it runs my entire rig perfect at stock FSB with 2-3-3-5-4 RAM, along with a bazillion USB devices, and it's purdy too :p
 
Hmm. I read one somewhat flattering and one not so flattering review of the Reactor. Measured tolerance on the 12v according to the one site was just under +/- 5%. At the other site it was closer to +/- 3%. I'm not sure which one to believe, so I'll take the worst case one just to be safe.
 
SirKenin said:
Hmm. I read one somewhat flattering and one not so flattering review of the Reactor. Measured tolerance on the 12v according to the one site was just under +/- 5%. At the other site it was closer to +/- 3%. I'm not sure which one to believe, so I'll take the worst case one just to be safe.
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just points out the "typical" flawed methodology of most reviews
if its a static config, the information is of limited value
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/other/display/psu-methodology_13.html
 
cliff notes for other viewers
config A with just under 5% load regulation had a more taxing crossload than config B with 3%

alternately neither knew how ro actually measure fluctuation
employing instead the BIOS\SMBus
or a DMM that lacked true RMS

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=854186&highlight=RMS

or employed a more demanding load pattern
adding "more" load actually tends to even out the fluctuation
provided its still within the capacity of the supply
a serious test is to laod the CPU\GPU to near 100% and then suddenly stop
and look for overshoots
http://www.smpstech.com/over0000.htm

in general a more dynamic load is a far better test than a "greater" load
the other means to test fluctuation is indirectly asking the supply to deal with line regulation (fluctuating VAC) while maintaing a demanding load regulation (supplied DC)
 
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