Tag: power supplies

Welcome the Power Supply for Gamers

You would think that gamers could care less of the capacity that their usual PC power supply can handle but apparently, the increase in hardware specifications such as video card requirements and power drain that stems from their everyday playing needs to be addressed.

The ALU650W PSU from GlacialPower is likewise targeted to the graphics designers which are growing in number and have had their share of shortage in power requirement. Hopefully though with the ALU650W, most of these issues will be answered and laid to rest.

Who would ever think that power supplies in the traditional PCs would not matter? Well apparently it does in a lot of ways and the new thermal solutions thrown our way by GlacialPower is certainly a welcome option as far as configuring and enhancing the standard power supply units we have that can only accommodate a normal wattage of 300 watts by default.

The AL650W (PSU) has won already many awards for its performance including Modreactor Excellence Award, MIKHAILTECH Editor”s Choice Award, and various other award from test benches from across the world.

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Avoid Overloading CPU Power Distribution

Being the enthusiastic computer geeks that we are at times, we cannot help but overdo it when it comes to identifying and choosing the proper peripherals to place in our PC. Power supplies can only take so much and that is why there are specified power distributions to be able to handle all the circuits and conduits that need power each time you switch you computer on.

Normally, the default power allocation is enough to rev up your motherboard, monitor, hard disks and video cards. A couple of optical drives can also be thrown into the fray and you still have sufficient power not to fry your power supply.

But you just cannot help at times to add more to the power requirements. Adding other hard drives, another optical drive like a DVD writer or other peripherals that technology has to offer. In short, you will have a CPU that will be forever fighting for power and if they are falling short of power requirements, you may see added peripherals burning out or a busted power supply even.

That is why when you go to the usual computer shops, you will notice that there are power supplies with greater power capacity. This is precisely the reason; to be able to adhere towards additions that will not be seen in the default computer specifications. We all have our own demands and apparently this stems from the fact that we do not know when the perfect PC setup will be there for us. This is only typical in terms of demands.