Akasa Paxpower 500 W Power Supply Review
Power Distribution
Contents
In Figure 14, you can see the power supply label containing all the power specs.
Figure 14: Power supply label.
As you can see this power supply has two +12 V rails, which are distributed like this:
- +12V1 (solid yellow wire): All cables but one of the ATX12V connectors.
- +12V2 (yellow with black stripe wire): One of the ATX12V connectors.
This distribution is really strange. Both ATX12V connectors should be connected to the second rail, but only one of them are. This showed to be a problem during our tests, as we will explain in the next page.
Now let’s see if this power supply can really deliver 500 W.
