Clean electricity

[Neuromancer]

I saw it mentioned elsewhere here... i forget where though...

About someone supplying cleaner power to their mobo by use of more caps. I grok the theory.. But how could it be done in practice?

Does it matter the power supply? Or would just having max amperage be enough?

Would it be possible to, rather then replace caps on a board, just to create a transition board? Something that reduces the ripple/fluctuations in the power supply to make a steady clean source of energy for hte PC? Not interested in doing it for the entire rig... just he mainboard and components.

Any helpful links to the theories are appreciated if an explicit answer can not be given...

thanks

[GigaForce310]

While it's possible, It's not a practical solution. Passive filtering by nature is not a particuarly effective form of filtration.

Before active filtering, they used to use a number of capacitors and inductors to filter voltage for sensitive applications. Now, if you need clean power you can build your own active filter or use a voltage regulator. This is exactly what is done with a PSU. They use switching power supplies and active filtering to generate an output. How good the output is depends on the design.

Your not going to get much better than a commercial PSU. Of course a cheap PSU model is going to be made as cheaply as possible. The outputs will not be quality either. When you look at the best PSU designs, you have teams working to get a very good performing PSU. Those with Masters or PhD's in electrical engineering and a good amount of experience are doing these designs.

[tenchi86]

As said it's not needed, if you are really worried your PSU does not work well enough maybe a UPS with autopower correction would comfort you some.