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Practical Power: SilverStone Olympia & FSP Everest
FSP Dissected
Written by yantronic and filed under Reviews > Cooling & Chassis
Published on April 10, 2008, 2:11 am
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Slashdot In the following pages, we will dissect the two units and peek at what makes 'em tick. First victim was the smaller FSP which was subdued in no time and put to sleep.



Like most of today's PSUs, a single fan draws cool air from the bottom-face, impinging on the heatsink fins before passing heated air through the perforated rear. FSP has supplied some mugen-style black chrome thumbscrews for vanity's sake. The fan is thermally activated, making the Everest a passive power supply when idling on low loads. Like the Silverstone, the Everest is autoranging, quelling worries of wrong voltage settings.


Velcro cable ties are supplied alongside a molded powercord for the FSP. Bridging cables are all sleeved, with the secondary PCIe power connector sporting a red wrap. Goes well with ATi cards eh?






