Testing:
To test the power provided by the
Xclio Stable Power 1000W Power Supply, it was installed in a system with the following equipment:
» AMD X2 4200 AM2 processor
» Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard
» 2GB (2x1024) OCZ DDR2 8500 SLI RAM
» 2GB (1x1024) OCZ DDR2 6400 EPP RAM
» Killer M1 NIC
» 2 eVGA 7900GTO cards in SLI
» 2x 80GB Hitachi Deskstar 3Gbps hard drive in RAID 0
» 1x 120GB Seagate 7200.9 SATA 3Gbps hard drive
» Memorex DVD/CDRW
» 10-n-1 Media Card reader
» Cooler Master CoolDrive IV
» Fans: 2x120mm LED
The following equipment was connected outside of the above machine using various splitters and baybus devices:
» 2 eVGA 7900GT in SLI
» Sunbeam Ultra Fan Controller
» 15x 120mm LED Fans
» 10x 80mm LED Fans
» 4x 80GB Seagate SATA 3Gbps Hard Drives
» 4x 160GB Seagate SATA 3Gbps Hard Drives
» 2x 80GB Hitachi 2.5 SATA Hard Drives
» 1x Sony DVD-RW
» 1x NEC DVD-RW
For testing, the power supply was analyzed at both idle and load conditions and compared to other units with similar power ratings.
The idle condition was established by powering the system at default speeds and voltages with no applications running for a period of at least 30 minutes. The load condition was established by running Folding@Home and SiSoft Sandra 2007's Burn-in Wizard for a period of at least 60 minutes. In addition to these stressful applications running, the loaded system was overclocked and overvolted to add more demand to the CPU. These voltages were taken using a Craftsman Auto-Ranging Multimeter (Model 82139), and checked with the Asus Probe II motherboard monitoring tool.
During testing, the 12V rail was putting out slightly less than the official 12V rating, while the 3.3V and 5V rails were putting out slightly more than the official ratings. While they were putting out more than the official ratings, they were well within the accepted tolerance of plus or minus 5%.
Comparing the Xclio 1,000W power supply to the
CoolMax CTG-1000 1000W, the
Enermax Galaxy EGA1000EWL 1000W, and the
Tagan Turbo Jet 1100W power supply, I was able to see a bit of a difference in the load power readings. The other power supplies have a 12V rail that is putting out more than the official rating, while the Xclio is putting out slightly less. The Xclio 1,000W power supply does provide more power than the other power supplies on the 5V rails, while on the 3.3V rail they were fairly close in ratings with .1V difference between all four power supplies.
