What do nine out of ten PSU-Reviews on the net have in common? Right, they just deal with handling, set-up and some screenshots of motherboard-monitor to show the currents, sometimes a vague silent or noisy is added. The conclusions drawn are thus quite superficial, but not the Computerbase.de-way: We did not shy away from extensive custom-built testing hook-ups far beyond the usual volt-meter read-outs.

Having finished our tests, we came to conclusions never imaginable just by reading BIOS voltages or MBM 5.2. One PSU delivered just about 20A less than it was rated at a specific voltage, another, so-called silent model came out to be more noisy than some adjustable PSU's in their highest setting.