Cooler Master V550 Review

Written by Matthew Lambert

September 18, 2015 | 13:56

Tags: #80-plus-gold #power-supply #psu

Companies: #cooler-master

Ripple

These charts show the measured levels of ripple on the 12V rail for each PSU at three levels of load. Lower results are better, and levels that fall outside of Intel's specifications are considered a fail and highlighted in red.

+12V Rail - Max. Ripple

60W load test (ATX spec limit: 120mV)

  • SilverStone SX600-G 600W
  • Fractal Design Integra M 650W
  • Antec EDGE 650W
  • Cooler Master V550 550W
    • 12.2
    • 13.3
    • 14.6
    • 15.2
0
3
5.5
8
10.5
13
15.5
Millivolts peak-to-peak (blue = pass; red = fail)
  • Ripple

+12V Rail - Max. Ripple

300W load test (ATX spec limit: 120mV)

  • Fractal Design Integra M 650W
  • Antec EDGE 650W
  • Cooler Master V550 550W
  • SilverStone SX600-G 600W
    • 20.9
    • 23.2
    • 25.0
    • 28.3
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Millivolts peak-to-peak (blue = pass; red = fail)
  • Ripple

+12V Rail - Max. Ripple

600W (or max) load test (ATX spec limit: 120mV)

  • Fractal Design Integra M 650W
  • Cooler Master V550 550W
  • Antec EDGE 650W
  • SilverStone SX600-G 600W
    • 30.3
    • 38.4
    • 40.6
    • 48.4
0
10
20
30
40
50
Millivolts peak-to-peak (blue = pass; red = fail)
  • Ripple

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