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You'll note
only a small red LED power indicator at the top of
the unit. The single 4-pin Molex plug on the right
is the one which accepts the power feed from the main
Power Station Terminal. Other than that you are free
to move about the cabin.
Test
Bench Specifications:
AMD Athlon
64 FX-55 (ADAFX55DEI5AS CAA2C 0442GPMW)
DFI LP NF4 SLI-DR motherboard
EVGA 7800 GTX KO video card
Thermaltake PurePower Power Station 520W PSU
Western Digital Caviar 80GB HD
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80GB HD
Sony DRU-720A DVD/RW
Sony FDD
Windows XP Professional (SP2 and all patches applied)
OCZ EB DDR PC-4000 2x1024MB Platinum Edition Dual
Channel Kit
Corsair TWINX2048-3500LLPRO 2x1024MB Dual Channel
Kit
Thermaltake Kandalf case
In order to
determine the efficiency of the individual voltage
rails, I tested the Thermaltake PurePower Power Station
520W PSU by running dual instances of Prime95 so that
the processor load would be 100 percent, at both default
speeds and highly overclocked. To really stress the
system and determine how efficient this unit was,
I ran in-place large FFT's while torture testing with
dual instances of Prime95 running (for maximum heat
and power consumption). I obtained results through
custom modified MBM5 software for my DFI SLI-DR motherboard,
and used SpeedFan version 4.27, along with the MBM5
outputs to see what software results were during load
testing.
For best results
I tested using a digital multimeter at stock speeds,
and under load, with overclocked system settings.
I will present my results below.
A default screen
shot of my MBM5 settings with temperatures and voltages
is located below.
Below was a sample test I ran
at default speeds, dual instances of Prime95 on the
3.3 volt rail.
The snap shot below shows default
testing on the +5 volt rail.
Next we will
move on to stress testing the system, wringing it
for more performance and seeing how the TT Power Station
PSU system worked. The following tests were performed
at a multiplier of 10X, LDT 3, with HTT set to 270.
I'll present a few of the Motherboard Monitor and
SpeedFan results via screen captures, then continue
on to the DMM results.
The screen capture below is
the system settings, 270HTT/10X , with the system
idle.
The inset picture below shows
outputs after dual instances of the Prime95 Torture
Test.
On the below left screen capture
- you see the MBM5 and SpeedFan outputs after dual
priming at 270HTT/10X. The right screen below, is
the High/Low output screen from Motherboard Monitor
5, to ascertain voltage swings, etc.
The last screen
shot I will present, is that of the voltages from
the actual BIOS screen for your own comparative purposes.
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