| ArrowMax PSF-500SP 500W Power Supply
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Testing:
To test the idle and load voltages of the ArrowMax PSF-500SP, I installed the following equipment:
The idle condition was established by powering the base system at default speeds and voltages with no applications running for a period of at least 30 minutes. The load condition was established by loading the system up with components and fans, while Folding@Home and SiSoft Sandra 2005's Burn-in Wizard ran for a period of at least 60 minutes. In addition to these stressful applications running, the loaded system was overclocked and overvolted to add more demand to the power supply. The table below details the idle and load conditions:
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Idle
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Load
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AMD 64 3500 (stock voltage)
Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI motherboard (default settings)
2gb (4x512) Generic Samsung 2700DDR DDR
2 - Seagate 80gb SATA in RAID 0
2 - Western Digital 250gb IDE
NEC DVDRW/CDRW
10-n-1 Media Card reader
eVGA 7800GT PCIe card
AVerMedia AVerTV Purity 3D MCE 500 TV tuner
2 - 120mm LED Fan (default fans only)
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AMD 64 3500 (stock voltage)
Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI motherboard @ 235FSB
2gb (4x512) Generic Samsung 2700DDR
2 - Seagate 80gb SATA in RAID 0
2 - Western Digital 250gb IDE
NEC DVDRW/CDRW
10-n-1 Media Card reader
eVGA 7800GT PCIe card
AVerMedia AVerTV Purity 3D MCE 500 TV tuner
Fans: 4x120mm LED, 6x80mm
Cooler Master Cool Drive IV
1x 40GB Seagate 7200.8 SATA hard drive
ATI PCI TV tuner
2x USB thumb drives
USB 2.0 Hub
1x USB 2.5 hard drive
Sony DRU-500A DVD-RW
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Here you can see both the idle and the load voltages. There was a slight drop in voltages from the idle to load readings, but nothing that would cause concern. The voltages fluctuated +/- .03V during the five (5) readings I took, this does remain within the 5% variance tolerance.
The next chart compares the load voltage readings of four power supplies. All of the values are well within an acceptable range of +/- 5% of specification, and absolutely zero power issues were experienced during testing.
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