PC Power and Cooling 510W Deluxe Power Supply

Company: PC Power and Cooling
Product: 510 ATX Deluxe
Street Price: $230 USD
Date Reviewed: September 28, 2003
Reviewed By: Joey Chao

Turbo Cool 510 Deluxe Test Results:

Excellent results here with the 510W Deluxe. We are not surprised by the performance of this power supply considering all the ones that we have reviewed from PC Power and Cooling have all done very well. You can see that there is almost no change in the voltages from idle to load. Less than 1% variance was recorded on all the rails with the 12V not showing any change.

Testing out the potentiometers, we turned them a bit to see how sensitive they are and they are just right. They require enough turning so that any change in voltages will be intentional and not just a slip of the finger. As we stated earlier, even though the power supply performs well, the actual voltages from the board may be very different due to design and power regulators (mosfets). This is where the pots would really come handy.

The fan cooling the unit does move quite a bit of air and for some users, it could be too loud. It is all a matter of preference and how much the consumer can tolerate. Personally, we do not think the noise level was high but our MAX3 motherboard has OTES and an active northbridge cooler making it difficult to determine the added noise from the PSU.