I quote:
"Power is truly addictive"
"whopping 550 watts"
"impressive degree of control"
"Gold plated connectors."
"Voltage Feedback to maintain accurate voltage to all components: adds
stability to your system"
Sorry, but these are the labels on a bogus product. If the PMPO rating
was still being used, they would rate it at 100kW PMPO.
The specs aren't that specteculair either; PFC is not mentioned, the
efficiency is quite poor
Relative to what other PC power supplies?
, load regulation is just within limits, it's
operating temperature is limited to 50 degrees Celcius (which is
severly low when taking into account that it has to cool itself with
an airflow in which 550 Watts got dissipated already).
The inefficiency of the power supply (too drunk to look it up, let's
say 75% efficiency) means that 412W was dissipated before it got to
the PSU, not 550W. PC PSU wattage is rated by consumption, not output.
It's the biggest number, that's marketing for you. Even that is making
the ridiculous assumption that the user was following the minimum ATX
spec and had only the PSU removing air from the case. The combination
of a user who actually uses the full 412W in their machine and has no
additional ventilation is so spectacularly improbable that it is
irrelevant. If the PSU is all you have removing hot air from your
components and they are using 412W you will have other problems
(overheating CPU, RAM and GFX card) well before the PSU becomes a
consideration.
I suspect this is an ordinary PC PSU (given the fact that it still has
a combined maximum output which implies one switcher / output
circuit).
It's a higher quality PSU than most of the crap out there. If you want
to compare PC PSUs the compare maximum current on the lines you are
interested in, from that you can work out the total output. I think
you'll find Antec are up there with the best in that market. PC PSUs
are cheap, mass produced items, not laboratory quality devices.
Show me a PC PSU substantially better than an Antec. If you can't then
you have found a niche in the market - go and make some and sell them.
If you're right you'll be rich.
Tim