Clear casing for psu?

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MUFFDIVER

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Clear casing for psu?

Freitag, 4. November 2005, 01:08

Has any 1 tried to make a clear case for this yet. And before i buy 2 of them are they any good?

Top_Nurse

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Re: Clear casing for psu?

Freitag, 4. November 2005, 01:32

The only down side is that it is only a 20 pin PSU. :'(

MUFFDIVER

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Re: Clear casing for psu?

Freitag, 4. November 2005, 01:37

Hmm... but is there not an adapter?

Ze@lot

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Re: Clear casing for psu?

Freitag, 4. November 2005, 01:39

imo the AC PSU is out dated for most performance pc now days, and as far as i can tell the cooling parts dont enter the psu itself but rather its just a waterblock bolted to the arse end. would be cool if they just released the waterblock on it own so users could just bolt it to the own psu.

MUFFDIVER

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Re: Clear casing for psu?

Freitag, 4. November 2005, 01:42

so its a piece of crp then?

Mr_modnaR

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Re: Clear casing for psu?

Freitag, 4. November 2005, 10:19

Zitat

imo the AC PSU is out dated for most performance pc now days, and as far as i can tell the cooling parts dont enter the psu itself but rather its just a waterblock bolted to the arse end. would be cool if they just released the waterblock on it own so users could just bolt it to the own psu.

this isn't possible, there are heat pipes inside this psu that bring the heat to the waterblock, whereas a normal psus have only heatsinks which emit their heat to the air. if you did what you said, you'd soon see the magical blue smoke methinks! ;D

Mr_modnaR

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Re: Clear casing for psu?

Freitag, 4. November 2005, 10:21

Zitat

so its a piece of crp then?

not really, it's totally silent which is good.

the only area it falls down on is the power rating, but that depends what cpu, gpu, mobo and accessories you have!

MUFFDIVER

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Re: Clear casing for psu?

Freitag, 4. November 2005, 13:08

Zitat von »Mr_modnaR«

not really, it's totally silent which is good.

the only area it falls down on is the power rating, but that depends what cpu, gpu, mobo and accessories you have!

I wud need 2 of them!

pharao

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Re: Clear casing for psu?

Freitag, 4. November 2005, 17:13

Zitat von »Ze@lot«

imo the AC PSU is out dated for most performance pc now days, and as far as i can tell the cooling parts dont enter the psu itself but rather its just a waterblock bolted to the arse end. would be cool if they just released the waterblock on it own so users could just bolt it to the own psu.

That's nonsense.
The coolcurrent was actually a passive (-ly ?) cooled PSU, all Parts that need cooling are mounted to the side on which the cooling block is mounted.
If you'd put a the block on any "normal" PSU and switch the fans off, it would overheat soon.
Afaik the performance given on the datasheet is still teh one from the passive cooled PSU, so the real performance of the Coolcurrent is a lot higher than the values given.

@muffdiver: sure u need 2?

Gute work-live-balance ist, wenn man von seinem Privatleben erschöpfter ist als von der Arbeit.

MUFFDIVER

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Re: Clear casing for psu?

Freitag, 4. November 2005, 17:21

Not sure but i use 2 any way?!?!?

Top_Nurse

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Re: Clear casing for psu?

Freitag, 4. November 2005, 21:36

Zitat von »MUFFDIVER«

Not sure but i use 2 any way?!?!?

If you are going to use 2 PSU's you need to go to a redundant PSU setup. Typically they are usually used only in servers. Sure you need that kind of setup?

Top_Nurse

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Re: Clear casing for psu?

Freitag, 4. November 2005, 21:47

Zitat von »hobbes_dmS«

That's nonsense.
The coolcurrent was actually a passive (-ly ?) cooled PSU, all Parts that need cooling are mounted to the side on which the cooling block is mounted.
If you'd put a the block on any "normal" PSU and switch the fans off, it would overheat soon.
Afaik the performance given on the datasheet is still teh one from the passive cooled PSU, so the real performance of the Coolcurrent is a lot higher than the values given.

Here is the stats from the AC site:

Technische Daten Cool Current Rev. 3

120V/230V
Leistung +12V 18A
Leistung +5V 32A
Leistung +3.3V 25A
Gesamtleistung 450W
Anschlüsse
ATX, Intel12V, AUX, 6x 5,25, 2x 3,5, 2x SATA

There appears to me two glaring problems with this PSU. The first one is that it is a 20 pin PSU which makes it totally unusable in modern high tech computers. The other issue is that the +12V line is an anemic 18 amps. :-/ This PSU would cough and die on just about any SLI rig in existence.

MUFFDIVER

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Re: Clear casing for psu?

Samstag, 24. Dezember 2005, 05:18

Zitat von »Top_Nurse«

Here is the stats from the AC site:

Technische Daten Cool Current Rev. 3

120V/230V
Leistung +12V 18A
Leistung +5V 32A
Leistung +3.3V 25A
Gesamtleistung 450W
Anschlüsse
ATX, Intel12V, AUX, 6x 5,25, 2x 3,5, 2x SATA

There appears to me two glaring problems with this PSU. The first one is that it is a 20 pin PSU which makes it totally unusable in modern high tech computers. The other issue is that the +12V line is an anemic 18 amps. :-/ This PSU would cough and die on just about any SLI rig in existence.

@ stefan

Is this true as im sure there is a 20pin adapter and by using 2 of these is it capable of running a SLI mobosetup. ie. from the mod my pc vid you were going to use 2 of them but it was all the led's that caused a power issue.

thnx