Flex is server level kit. Seasonic is consumer level. That's all I can say. No comparison.
Corsair RM Series PSU Review & live load testing
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Flex is server level kit. Seasonic is consumer level. That's all I can say. No comparison.
chrismjurd
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good job Tom, more SunMoon!
by the way, overclockers.co.uk have embedded your video on the bottom of the RM series product pages, never seen them use one of your videos before, do Corsair have more to say on that or are they stealing your knowledges?
by the way, overclockers.co.uk have embedded your video on the bottom of the RM series product pages, never seen them use one of your videos before, do Corsair have more to say on that or are they stealing your knowledges?
chrismjurd
New member
cool, just in the sense of ive seen different E-tailer sites use your award graphics, but not a video before, more views and exposure always good.
barnsley
born in a.....
Will you ever give the Superflower PSUs a go Tom? I know you said you won't do many psus I just thought as they're not too big over here it might be cool to give them a go over as most people seem to think they're some budget crap. To be fair with a name like superflower I can see why people think that...
Depends if THEY ask.
He could, but he's already testing at 20%, 50% and 100% load which is where Ecos tests for 80 Plus certification. The 75% load numbers will be somewhere between the 50% and 100% results, so to also test at 75% would be redundant.
Never saw this until now. Since I work in Electronics this kind of stuff is pretty close to my heart.
Question - When you refer to a 1000W load, is it all on the 12V rail or is it distributed over all the rails?
Depends on the PSU. Most "modern" PSUs, like the RM Series, are +12V PSUs with small DC to DC VRMs inside to regulate the lower voltages. Other, cheaper PSUs can not do their full rating on the +12V. A fraction (albeit a large fraction) of the load can be put on the +12V, but to maximize the PSU's capabilities, you also have to load the +3.3V and +5V.
Zoot
Active member
Well all the rails have a specified output current load (or power) they can handle. Although most of the action is always on the 12v since the major components are powered off that, but generally you'll find the other rails are capable of supplying something like 20A.
Plus, all the load tester is doing is putting a current load to specification on each of the rails and investigating how close to the ATX spec it is, or in the case of a big failure how close to going out of regulation it is.
Anyway, I just looked through some older reviews (done by Jim when he was here), and they answer my query about the individual current loads not being listed. All is good. ^_^
Yeah... well, I think I'm pretty sure how a power supply works. Thanks.
Maybe your question wasn't exactly clear to me in the first place. What you're referring to is all laid out on any PSU's specification label and Tom pointed out that each of the fields on the tester were a different load for each voltage. I assumed your question wasn't that redundant.
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Zoot
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The label was what I was thinking of.Yeah... well, I think I'm pretty sure how a power supply works. Thanks.
Maybe your question wasn't exactly clear to me in the first place. What you're referring to is all laid out on any PSU's specification label and Tom pointed out that each of the fields on the tester were a different load for each voltage. I assumed your question wasn't that redundant.
However I don't recall seeing what the actual current loads themselves were in the video, hence why I was asking.
