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Finally you will see the Mini Power Station Terminal that is only to be used for lower powered equipment requirements, such as case fans, low voltage lighting, etc. There is an actual warning label stating this on the side of the Mini P.S.T. It is easily connected to the main Power Station via means of a longer 4-pin Molex connector. It then allows additional 4-pin Molex and a couple 3-pin fan connectors to be hooked up to the Mini Power Station Terminal.

I did find this Mini Power Station Terminal to be quite useful in a recent case installation of the Thermaltake Kandalf, featuring many case fans and a few peripherals. The box was small enough to hide away from view and allowed for a cleaner run of wiring and ease of use by the enthusiast, should he or she choose. It is not required in order to run your system, just an additional well thought out piece of kit by Thermaltake.



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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