Ultra Products X-Connect 500W - Page 4
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Specifications
The power supply comes with great rails to feed your
system. The 12v rail, which is now considered the most important
rail of all, is rated at an amazingly high 34 amps. It's not very
common to see 34 amps on the 12v. There are only a few power
supplies that give off more than 25 amps. Ultra Products
sacrificed the 5v rail in order to raise the 12v rail. To
calculate the total wattage of the power supply, you take the 3.3v and
the 5v rails and multiply it to their respective amps. That gives
one part of the wattage. The other part lies within the 12v.
Multiply the 12v rail to its amps and you'll get the other part of the
wattage. Simply add these two totals and you'll get the total wattage. To keep a power supply at a rated 500W and
in order to raise the amps on one rail, one part of the wattage has to
be sacrificed. With the 12v rail being more important than the 5v,
Ultra Products dropped the amps on the 5v rail. It is still rated
at a good 30 amps, though. Of course it would be great to have all
the amps pumped up, resulting in an extremely high wattage power
supply. But it wouldn't be beneficial to consumers as they'll
end up paying a hefty price for it.
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