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PSU Testing

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Yourself

Limp Gawd
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I had an idea for testing my Antec 550 that I think is going bad, but wanted to bounce a few ideas off the people here to see if this makes sense. I read this page posted by Ice Czar on how to test a power supply and I actually followed the tutorial and my voltages tested fine. However, afterwards I was thinking that a 10W 10 ohm resistor is not going to be enough stress to move the voltages like a true load would. My next thought was to buy an ATX extension cable and make "Y" splits on the 12, 5 and 3.3v wires and test the unit in my actual case with the actual load on the rails. Does this sound like the best method for testing each rail? Am I even getting full load at the ATX connector? Any information would be greatly appreciated...:)


Self
 
Test your supply under the load of your system, no need to make y's or anything, just shove the leads from the meter into the top of the ATX connector till you hit metal
 
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