Written by
Nikola Brankovic
Friday, 10 June 2011 18:11
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  The total consumption of modern PCs has left the “safe” zone long ago, and has instead become a fully integrated decision factor when buying a new PC or upgrading it. OK, it’s true that any PSU will do for office computers, but if you’re assembling a remotely serious gaming PC or workstation, it’s always good to add up the values and get the total consumption before venturing out to buy a PSU (one 20% stronger than what you’ve got as your total wattage, mind you). PSUs that can provide more than a kilowatt of power are nothing new on the market, and since SLI/CrossFireX configurations are becoming increasingly popular in the average buyer’s PC, they’ve actually become a necessity, not just a precaution. If you want your pet’s heart (or hearts) to beat steadily, both the CPU(s) and the GPU(s), be prepared to feed it with four-digit wattage.
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Written by
Zeljko Djuric
Saturday, 28 August 2010 19:36
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  It was in November last year when we presented SNA 95, the predecessor of the device we’re reviewing today that got fairly good reviews at the time. We first spotted its inheritor at CES in Las Vegas, but the version we saw back then was still in its early development stages, whereas the CEBIT one was already close to the final version, almost identical to the one we have in front of ourselves, and the one that we have had to wait for a bit longer than expected. The heir got an additional character, the letter U, so it’s now called USNA (Ultra Slim Notebook Adapter), but it’s also lost quite a lot - in weight, in dimensions and the handy canal for winding cables.
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Written by
Ivan Vujic
Wednesday, 28 July 2010 21:11
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 The need for PSUs who can offer quiet work alongside more power and efficiency is ever-increasing. This trend has been spotted by numerous manufacturers, who have recently presented the market with their own visions of quiet PSUs. Cooler Master can’t be an exception, of course, so they decided to present, besides the already available and well-known Silent PRO series, the Silent PRO Gold series. The new series encompasses PSUs from 600 to 1200 W of power, so that most users be able to pick the appropriate model for them with ease. The model we’ve tested was the golden middle - pun intended - with an 800 W sticker on the case.
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Written by
Nikola Brankovic
Monday, 21 June 2010 02:43
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  Do you belong to the group of people who, for reasons that aren’t exactly justified, thinks that any additional investment in an uninterruptible power supply for their PCs is ultimately an unnecessary expense? After all, you aren’t involved in rendering the key scene in James Cameron’s latest film offering, nor do you perform complex mathematical calculations for NASA’s future projects. If the response is positive, then you’re definitely one of the lucky ones who hasn’t had one of the vital components killed off by random electrical network voltage variations or even a complete power loss.
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Written by
Ivan Vujic
Wednesday, 16 June 2010 23:26
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 Latest-gen graphics cards consume an awful lot of power, and that seems to increase with each generation. The same could be said for CPUs as well. A configuration that would be able to run the latest games in high resolutions often requires more than one graphics card. The usual 500 W PSU simply won’t be enough in such situations. We thought that it would be interesting to delve into PSUs that could power overclocked quad-core or hexa-core CPUs combined with two or more graphics cards. We borrowed a couple of PSUs from LC Power, namely Metatron series models of 1000 and 1200 W. The remaining two arrived from SilverStone and Cooler Master.
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Written by
Ivan Vujic
Saturday, 03 April 2010 00:08
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 It seems that PSUs with a single +12V rail are recently becoming more and more popular, which is a trend present worldwide. The cause for this is likely the fact that more and more power-craving graphics cards are appearing on the GPU market, thus putting the +12V rail under considerable strain – just take Nvidia’s latest for an example. That makes PSUs with multiple +12V rails, but with a weaker power output, less desirable. This time, we’ve received a PSU from Cooler Master’s GX series, consisting of three models, with respective power outputs of 550, 650 and 750 W. The one we’ve tested is the strongest one, boasting a power output of 750 W.
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Written by
Sasa Pantelic
Saturday, 01 November 2008 17:58
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 Imagine that you are about to go on a vacation or a business trip, and that instead of carrying number of different chargers for your laptop, camera and PDA, you can bring only one device. If you like this vision, than Prestigio Power Bank 501 is the right choice for you. In simple, this is external battery which can be used for supplying all kinds of power consumers.
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Written by
Dusan Srbljak
Friday, 31 October 2008 01:14
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 It seems that “masters of the coolers” decided to cover all users’ needs for power supply units and we got on test UCP (Ultimate Circuit Protection) series that brings several innovations. The present state on the computer market confirms that multi CPU and GPU systems are not science fiction anymore. If you have Quad Core CPU with SLi or CrossFire GPU system in your computer case, soon you’ll realize that PSU is one of the basic things that you should choose very carefully for your configuration. Cooler Master promoted itself to a new level with its Real Power series, earning very enviable reputation.
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Written by
Marko Vezmar
Friday, 19 September 2008 01:00
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 Cooler Master Silent Pro series was created with an idea, but also with influence of users’ needs, for as much as possible, silent computer. We had an opportunity to test one of them with output capacity of 600W - Silent Pro M600. At first glance on full product’s package we can conclude few things about this device.
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Written by
Djordje Kovacevic
Friday, 14 December 2007 05:06
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 We recently received three powerful power supply units from LC Power, and we tried to determine how good they really are. These are three models from the LC Power METATRON series – models with 700, 850 and 1000 W. |
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