Introduction
Date 2007-06-04
Provider: Thermaltake
Author: Calle Andersson
Editor: Amber Lupala
Thermaltake Purepower RX 500W PSU
Thermaltake has made themselves known, as their name hints, mostly as a maker of cooling equipment. As time has passed, cooling has become more and more a thing about looking at the whole concept of a computer, rather than just evacuating power from the individual heat generating components. A lot of the heat generated comes from the PSU, so this is nothing you will want to shrug off lightly when designing your system. As a company regarded as making premium equipment, we were delighted to look at a powersupply (PSU) from them.
About Thermaltake:
” Ideas originate from humanity, realizing ideas is our belief. ”
Kenny Lin, Thermaltake CEO. Thermaltake Technology Co., Ltd. started its core business based on our extensive knowledge of PC thermal management during the era where the area of performance CPU cooling was only exclusive for “overclockers” orPC enthusiasts. With the company’s initial launch of Orb coolers, it created waves of shocks and appraisals throughout the gaming and overclocking communities. Thermaltake quickly became the name gamers turn to when they need high-end and reliable thermal solutions.
With company’s core business of CPU cooling still growing at a vast rate, Thermaltake made another grand entry to the PC chassis industry. To date, Thermaltake has always been considered as the pioneering company that revolutionized the PC chassis industry with Xaser series enclosures. The typical and traditional beige and plastic front panel design was outdone by Xaser series chassis’s atypical gaming red and aluminum front panel. It was also the first enclosure available to public with Hardcano unti which provided users full control over computer’s thermal management system.
In the year 2002, Thermaltake announced Purepower line of power supply unti for the ever-growing power-hungry PCs. Purepower series PSU quickly gained recognition with its extensive warranty and high-reliability guaranty.
Today, Thermaltake has grown into a world-class company with state-of-the-art testing and R&D facility based in Taiwan along with 60+ engineers and ID team covering each application segment such as Liquid Cooling, Air Cooling, PC Enclosure and Power Supply for main-stream users, high-end solutions, system integrators and industrial applications; thus achieve Thermaltake’s company motto, ” COOLall YOUR LIFE ” !
Specifications:
�ATX 12V version 2.2 compliant.
�Specified to work with both high consuming PCI-Express and Dual Core processor systems.
�The PSU boasts three 12V rails to separate and stabilize power to different components such as processor graphics cards, peripherals and motherboard.
�All cables are sleeved and modular so that you only need to use the ones you really require.
�It has a large 14cm ball bearing fan.
The product:
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The unit itself looks nice, a light grey anodized material.
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The large fan can be viewed through the integrated grille, in testing it proved to be silent as with a non-disturbing sound.
All in all, the aesthetics and perceived quality is top grade here.So, what about power, this is after all a power supply we are talking about, does it match the looks and feel?
When testing it on a system with a Core 2 Duo E6400 and running Folding@Home for benchmarking, we measured the following results after half an hour running, compared to the idle measurements and benchmarked against two oher PSU�s with similar specs.
Full specs of the system:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
1GB DDR2
10k rpm SATA disk
GeForce 8600 GTS
3,3V Rail:
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