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Power Supply Build Quality Pictorial/Discussion

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RE: Power Supply Build Quality Pictorial/Discussion

Postby duckula » June 24th, 2011, 4:01 pm

Internals of the BeQuiet! Dark Power Pro P9 550w powe supply. This is the first time I see a big OST in a PSU.:clap:
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RE: Power Supply Build Quality Pictorial/Discussion

Postby shovenose » June 24th, 2011, 4:39 pm

OMG that's creepy! I've never seen a big OST either :D always Teapo
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RE: Power Supply Build Quality Pictorial/Discussion

Postby duckula » June 24th, 2011, 4:43 pm

poor capacitor choice.
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RE: Power Supply Build Quality Pictorial/Discussion

Postby shovenose » June 24th, 2011, 5:03 pm

lol yeah
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RE: Power Supply Build Quality Pictorial/Discussion

Postby c_hegge » June 26th, 2011, 11:51 pm

OK, I finally got around to pulling the Delta DPS-750CBA from my main PC for some pictures.

First, the PSU itself. Just for comparison, the one to the left of it in the picture is a Bestec ATX-300-12Z, a more normal ATX PSU. This one is actually so big that some of the rivets on my Antec 1200 case atually get in the way, so I can't quite do the screws up all the way, so it sits a couple of mm forward from the back
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Yes, the unit does actually have five 12V rails. Two for the CPU, one for the graphics, one for the ATX Connector and one for the Molex and SATA connectors
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The fan is a twin ball-bearing unit made by Delta
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The primary and secondary sides are on separate PCBs. The unit has two 330uF Chemi-con PFC caps. All other capacitors on the primary are also Japanese (Rubycon, Chemicon and Nichicon). The inductors are some of the biggest I've ever seen.
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The secondary side also uses Japanese caps, from the same 3 brands as the primary. That one blue sleeved cable is the PCI-E one. I pulled that from another PSU and replaced the PCI-E cable in this one as my GTX295 needs an 8 pin PCI-E connector.
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A closer look at those secondary caps
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No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the coils backwards! :D
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RE: Power Supply Build Quality Pictorial/Discussion

Postby duckula » June 27th, 2011, 1:52 am

wow. this thing looks huge and heavy. I'm not sure if four screws can hold it if you mount it in a top-mounted case. :D

Definitely looks like a great power supply.
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RE: Power Supply Build Quality Pictorial/Discussion

Postby c_hegge » June 27th, 2011, 5:15 am

The antec 1200 uses a bottom mount design, so other than a couple of rivets that get in the way it's fine.
No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the coils backwards! :D
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RE: Power Supply Build Quality Pictorial/Discussion

Postby shovenose » June 27th, 2011, 8:31 am

That's a damn nice PSU. Nowhere near as good as the Antec HGC750 I've got LOL
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RE: Power Supply Build Quality Pictorial/Discussion

Postby duckula » June 27th, 2011, 7:42 pm

guess what i saw when I was searching HCG750 review on google?
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Internals of the Antec HCG750 power supply:
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looks not as beefy as c_hegge's unit.
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RE: Power Supply Build Quality Pictorial/Discussion

Postby shovenose » June 27th, 2011, 8:50 pm

Oh look! Jonnygofucku.com

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Thats surprising actually lol that they left that post!
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