Soon At Tom's Hardware: Full-Scale Power Supply Testing

[Travis]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/psu-test-equipment,2657.html

Seems like we'll see the English version of THG's (or CoolerMaster's) psu reviews soon. No need for me to use Google Tranlate then.

[Lemmy]

Full-Scale my ass, it's the same crappy methodology.
Still no voltage regulation or ripple testing.

[Stefan Payne]

It's just the translation of the german article.

they did another one (http://www.tomshardware.de/Netzteile-Coolermaster-Cougar-Kingwin-Seasonic,testberichte-240570.html), mainly focusing on low power efficiency tests, no ripple and noise...
Sorry to be harsh, but I think the tester doesn't know what he's doing and just does something that looks good, in his opinion.

[Hondacity]

cougar sucks balls

low load efficiency test was nice..but they didn't indicate what was loading the psu...just a bar indicating efficiency.

[Travis]

It's just the translation of the german article.

they did another one (http://www.tomshardware.de/Netzteile-Coolermaster-Cougar-Kingwin-Seasonic,testberichte-240570.html), mainly focusing on low power efficiency tests, no ripple and noise...
Sorry to be harsh, but I think the tester doesn't know what he's doing and just does something that looks good, in his opinion.

He's not the cook. He's just the waiter who brings whatever CoolerMaster has prepared for him.

[HOOfan_1]

He's not the cook. He's just the waiter who brings whatever CoolerMaster has prepared for him.

Are you saying Coolermaster employees are actually doing the testing? Or are you saying Coolermaster is telling the tester what tests to do and how to do them?

Either way....how is that not conflict of interest?

[Makalu]

well since the methodology is the same as what they did here:

http://www.vortez.co.uk/contentteller/articles_pages/performance_psu_group_test,16.html

I assume it's the pretty much the same deal as they did with madshrimps years ago...website brings in some power supplies to go up against a CM model and a CM employee runs the tests yeah. Most others aren't going to know how to operate the equipment anyway.

I notice they've removed the "ATX v2.2 16ms" reference value from the hold-up time graphs and still have never put that test into their testing methodology lol...maybe they wing it ;)

EDIT: erm well pretty much the same at vortez except they did OPP instead of 110%...

[Travis]

Are you saying Coolermaster employees are actually doing the testing? Or are you saying Coolermaster is telling the tester what tests to do and how to do them?

Either way....how is that not conflict of interest?

CoolerMaster did the test. As I've said before, the author himself is only a journalist, not an engineer or even a hobbist.

[HOOfan_1]

A PSU test run by a biased hand is worse than an incompetent PSU review....especially one that will be published on a site as highly traveled as Toms Hardware.

I would say it shows a lack of ethics

[Travis]

They did it because their website needs some "professional reviews" to help their ads sales.

[Elledan]

I have been trying to dissuade my housemate from relying on TH for hardware advice, but so far it seems like it's the only site he really looks at. He does trust my opinion in the end, though :D

[muddocktor]

I gave up on that bunch of posers (THG) a long, long time ago. It got so hard to find the any good stuff through all their crap articles and pandering to the advertisers years ago and I just deleted their bookmark on all my computers.