PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 1KW Power Supply Review

Cases & PSU/Power Supplies by KeithSuppe @ 2006-10-05

Describing any review involving PC Power & Cooling products is more difficult then one might think. How do you describe a company to which so many accolades have already been attributed? Today we have the honor of testing the Turbo-Cool 1000W (1kW) PSU.

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Internals Cont.

Proprietary Circuitry Continued


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Looking at the unit from the rear of the PSU we see each aluminum heatsink runs the width of the unit across all three modules. Below we see the AC in stage.

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And from the output end (thumbnails), final capacitance, inductor stages and finally the traces from which the Rails originate. The first thumbnail on the left provides a clearer view of the aforementioned.

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The remaining thumbnails from left to right excluding the first show the rails as they originate from the board. Note the 3.3V and 5V on the far left. Next we have 12V1, 12V2 and 12V3 which are all isolated, with 12V3 originating from the center of the board. Most likely a single module is responsible for this 12V3 stage which provides power for graphics and all drives. The last two rails 12V1 and 12V2 on the far right power the CPU. This indicates the module running the length of unit photographed most is solely responsible for these rails.

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PCPower&Cooling has historically included potentiometers on their power supplies, many of their enclosures would allow access holes to one or more of these pots. In the TC1KW potentiometers are available if one removes the cover, this also voids the warranty. The thumbnail below reveals these pot's are glued to prevent their movement. While the seal can be broken PCPower's philosophy is to ensure tolerances are as tight as possible and with innate circuitry to prevent "drift" the need for adjustable pots is eliminated. These are strictly for factory refurbishing and should be left alone. After all one reason you’re paying just bit more for PCPower are for its steadfast Rails under Load.

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Onto testing ->

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