Geist
Rated PG
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 Posted: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:25:48 Post Subject: ah well.... |
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Hi all,
I´m new here and I found out about your Ryanpower2 review which is the second one someone ever made about an A.C. Ryan psu. I had a hard time looking for other reviews and I only found a finnish one...  <-> Communication was...well complicated. 
I was really excited about reading your review then. I found it to be well written, informative and it was for sure another positive step for my decision to by a Ryanpower2 550 W (which I ordered today...).
What usually kinda bugs me is the test system setup. In your case the "kitchen sink system!", too. This system simply doesn´t drain enough power! I mean, come on, a 2.4A with a Radeon card (btw. which one?! 9700/9800 usually don´t tend to make any trouble, even when using a 400 W psu made by xyz-banana-company.). Ok, you tried to bring in the "how-many-drives-can-be-attached"-thing (even under heavy drive operations load) and I´m sure this is a good way getting a clue about rail stability. But overall I´d more preferred a setup with a highend pressie, overlocked about some hundred mhzs with a 6800 GT/Ultra AND 4 drives. That would have been a near-proof for stability.
I used to power my system (6x 7200 Sata hdds, 3.4 pressie@3.8 and 6800 gt) with one of these crappy BeQuiet 450 W psus, which - btw. - were all rated "superb/nice/recommendation" and the like. I couldn´t even play ol´ quake 3 with that setup, cause the cpu and gfx were the critical power draining components. And that is what should be tested when reviewing a psu in my opinion. Is it prime stable, how does it perform with some highend overclocked cpu under heavy load, 3dmark, etc? Just throwing in some LED´s, fans, lights and the like doesn´t proof anything imho.
The finnish hardware site made the review with an old Athlon XP test system by the way. By finding out about that, I then only was interested in looking at the pics of the internal view he made. Simply because I knew his measurements weren´t worth the look. Your "kitchen sink system" is better in the means of power drain, but surely understated when it comes to 500+ W psus imho.
Greets
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