SilverStone Strider Plus 600W Power Supply
Jan 24th, 2011 | By AnthonyThe aim of the cold test is to reflect ideal operational conditions where heat from the computer system is independent from the power supply. Still though, the term cold test would be misleading as things do get quite hot!
Starting off with our first three tests at 50%, 80% and 100% the unit demonstrated good line regulation along with some excellent efficiency numbers. At full load we were just under 84% efficiency which actually is a bit better than 80 Plus Bronze, just not quite 80 Plus Silver.
Keeping the same load and switching on the peltiers to heat up the unit, the rails still held very well with the 12V rail down to 11.94, 5V rail to 4.96 and finally the 3.3V rail at 3.26V. Efficiency also slipped a few points down to 83.4%.