May 22, 2013 - 12:58 AM
At CeBIT Cooler Master showed off two new series of power supplies, including the V series. These new PSUs, available in 700W, 850W and 1000W, use the single-rail approach are are 80 Plus Gold certified. We tested the 1000W model.
May 13, 2013 - 12:58 AM
When you're assembling a basic system with or without an entry-level card you don't need more than 300-450 watts to power it. These PCs also benefit from a good and stable PSU, but there's a lot of junk available in this lower segment. We thought that was a good reason to separate the wheat from the chaff, so we put 39 power supplies through our standard testing proce...
May 25, 2013 - 11:13 AM
In April, Intel announced that its new Haswell processors were so efficient that some older power supplies could have issues with certain sleep states. Shortly after, various manufacturers published lists of power supplies that were compatible with the new generation of Core processors.
One party that hadn't yet published such details was Cooler Master. The manufactu...
May 24, 2013 - 04:05 AM
Late April, we reported that not all power supplies were suited for Intel's Haswell processors.
Intel has improved the C6 and C7 power states, allowing the CPU to shut down almost entirely when idle for prolonged periods of time. With the Ivy Bridge chips, a minimum current of 0.5 amps was specified, while the new processors only require 0.05 amps. At these low capac...
