Hello again, my name is Rodney Reynolds and welcome to another video review. Today I'm looking at Cooler Master Real Power 550W Power Supply.
Included in this package is a 24 to 20 pin adapter, a power cable, a user’s manual and a total power consumption display. This display shows real time power in an analog format at the front.
Now the front on this is black but this face plate can be removed and they include a silver one so you can match the front of this to your particular case color. Also included are a number of screws for mounting this displays in your cases 3 ½ inch drive bay and screws from mounting the power supply in the case.
This particular product has a continuous wattage of 550 and the peak wattage of 650 which will easily power today’s latest computer systems. Now how is this wattage determined? Well to understand that you need to know what rails are.
Rails are basically well regulated transformers which convert domestic current into voltages that you're computer system can use and there are essentially two different rails the, 3.3/5 volt and the 12 volt.
In this particular case the approximate peak output of the 3.3/5 volt rail is 190 watts and the 12 volt is 360 watts, which is essentially how the wattage of this power supply is determined.
Now the 3.3/5 volt rail is responsible for the mother board, memory, PC like card AGP card and so on while the 12 volt rail is responsible for the hard drives, DVD, CD Rom, fans, etcetera. Also some might be interested to know the amps on each rail. A plus 3.3 volt is 20 amps and the plus 5 volt is 25 amps and this particular power supply has three plus 12 volt rails. Normally we’ll only have one, three of these total 30 amps, two are 12 amps and one is 6 amps.
At the back of the power supply there are a lots of ventilation holes a power cable connection and then on/off switch. Also at the bottom a very quiet large 120 millimeter blue LED fan.
This product has plenty of leads but the only one that’s leaved is the main 24 pin connections. There's also an eight pin, a four pin and the six pin mother board lead. Also a six pin lead for connecting to a PCI express video card, there's one floppy, six standard four pin mounts connectors and each one of these has an easy grip connector, three serial ATA and one lead which goes into that total power consumption display.
Now let's get back to this analog wattage read out. Again this gets installed in an external 3 ½ inch drive bay. I want to show you this as a system powers up, as its being use and as it shuts down. First of all have the look at the read out as a power of system on.
Right now I have a doom three time demo running you can see how it’s fluctuating and how the look as power of this system off. And finally have a look and listen to this power supply.
This product offers quality power. It has lots of leads it looks great, is quiet and even comes with a total power consumption display. Overall this product is kick ass.
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