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Installation: Testing: Testing System: On the testing system used I was able to maintain the following voltages during both idle and load states: +3.37V, +12.05V, +5.11V. Of course no voltage fluctuation shows that the power supply is more than capable of keeping regulated voltages no matter how much power is being drawn from it to stress it. Noise levels of this power supply was probably the part of testing that I was most excited to observe. Since I rarely ever get the opportunity to review power supplies cooled by 140mm fans (since so few exist) I am always intrigued to see if the manufacturer will pull off implimenting these larger fans with either more or less noise than a 120mm one. Being a thermally controlled fan on an 80PLUS power supply, I knew right from the start that this would not be a loud power supply by any means. Upon powering it up I was pleasantly surprised to find that the fan itself was fairly quiet but the airflow generated from this larger fan was what made it slightly louder than the past several 120mm fan cooled power supplies I've reviewed here. However, this is strictly airflow noise and not mechanical noise so it was greatly reduced when the power supply was actually mounted inside my case with all the side panels on it. Airflow noise is also much easier to listen to than mechanical noise; we almost block it out as we would the sound of our heating/cooling ducts.
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