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- Feb 2, 2003
I just wanted to say that this is by far the best PSU I have ever owned or built into a system. Mine arrived on Friday, and I put it in my rig, which had preveously been running an Enermax 350watt. My enermax had very bad voltage problems for as long as I can remember. If I put the Vcore up around 1.85 to 1.9v, the 5v rail took a little hit, and then under full cpu load, the 5v rail would drop sometimes as much as .10v, down around 4.68v! I had an xp2000+ and couldnt even overclock it over about 1.75ghz on that Enermax PSU, the system would just lock up or not even boot. Voltages were so finicky and wishy washy. I even had a XMS2400 stick of ram die, and I think it was due to the extreme voltage fluxuations the enermax gave me. Well, I installed my new Antec and I was totally taken away by this thing! I dont care if my Vcore is default, or even as high as 2.1v, and Ram Voltage up to 1.9v, and full load on the scpu, my volatges dont budge even a penny! My 5v rail STAYS at 4.97 no matter what I do. I even jacked my voltages up really high and stressed my system to see if i could get my voltages to flucuate, and they didnt budge. The only flucuation is on the 12v rail where it bounces around 11.92v, That is probably due however to all the fans im running im running and the varying RPM fluctuations etc. My 5v Rail however is totally solid. I have only once or twice seen it leave 4.97v, and that was just to jump up to 4.99v for a second. Other than that this PSU is rock solid. My 2000+ is now running at speeds i have never been able to run it at. I had it in windows and messing around at 1.9ghz last nite. On the enermax PSU i couldnt dare even get 1.8ghz out of it, no matter what I did. If anybody is looking to upgrade there PSU soon, I would HIGHLY recommend the Antec Truepower line! This puppy is rock solid no matter what I throw at it, and im running 4 80mm fans, 2 120mm fans, 3 hard drives, 2 cdrom drives, floppy, and all my pci cards and Ti4600 graphics card just to give you an idea of the load on it. I am very satisfied with this PSU personally.