Case and Cooling Spring 2004: Upcoming Products
by Kristopher Kubicki on April 3, 2004 10:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Cases/Cooling/PSUs
TTGI Power Supplies
It isn't too often we label a power supply as "sexy", but in the instance of the newest TTGI/SuperFlower power supplies, we can make an exception. Several months ago, in our recent power supply roundup we took a look at a few power supplies from TTGI/SuperFlower, and they all performed reasonably well. A few weeks ago, we caught a glimpse of some of TTGI's newest creations, aluminum PSU enclosures with 140mm fans!
We have seen 120mm fan cooled PSUs in the past, and they operate reasonably well, operating on the principle that at lower RPMs the fans can move the same amount of air as 80mm fans on high RPMs.
Wattages
|
|
3.3V |
5V |
12V |
-12 |
-5 |
+5vsb |
combined theoretical |
actual combined |
advertised total |
|
TTGI 14CM-TT-450TS |
105.60 |
210.00 |
324.00 |
9.60 |
2.50 |
12.50 |
315.60 |
223.00 |
450.00 |
We were a bit wary of the specifications of the 14CM-TT-450TS at first; the 5V and 3.3V rails seems particularly high. However, the most important 12V rail seems very much in line with what we expected.
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One small feature the newer TTGI power supplies incorporate are electrical switching fan controls. We criticized many power supplies in the past for the poor interference we received when we physically switched the fan speeds. It looks like TTGI/SuperFlower is on the track to successfully solving this dilemma.
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Look forward to seeing some of the TTGI power supplies in upcoming roundups!
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rsa4046 - Sunday, April 4, 2004 - link
A watt is the SI unit of power (energy or work per unit time), and thus contains time implicitly: 1 W = 1 J/s. Perhaps you meant heat flux (i.e., power per unit area, or 150 W/cm2 )?Chuckles - Sunday, April 4, 2004 - link
I know its relatively minor, but there is an error on page one."A solid block of copper sits on the CPU, and is then sinked by 6 heatpipes anchored onto the 7mm aluminum chassis. Without moving components, the case is able to sink 150W per second!"
A Watt is a Joule per second, a measure of energy per unit time (power). Thus the article should read "... 150W!"