With AVR, when power from a wall outlet briefly dips or surges outside of a specified range, a small transformer in the UPS acts like a buffer to compensate without relying on the battery; the UPS ...

For example, an 80 Plus White 500W power supply at 50-percent load would work out to 250W DC power, or 312.5W AC power. You’ll use that latter number (312.5) when tabulating your electricity ...

A non-modular power supply has all of its interior cables hardwired into the side. Whether you need them or not, you'll get every single cable in a tight bundle attached to the side permanently.

This means that a 700-watt 80 Plus Gold power supply will draw 791 watts of power from the wall socket to deliver 700 watts to PC components. An 80 Platinum power supply, on the other hand, only ...

The basic operation of a switch-mode power supply is fairly straightforward, and ATX supplies have very few deviations from the norm. There is a mains rectifier and filter, a pair of high-voltage ...