ASUS P-50GA 500 W Power Supply Review

Power Distribution

In Figure 14, you can see the power supply label containing all the power specs.

Figure 14: Power supply label.

This power supply has three rails, distributed like this:

• +12V1 (solid yellow wire): Main motherboard, SATA and peripheral power connectors.
• +12V2 (yellow wire with black stripe): ATX12V/EPS12V connectors.
• +12V3 (solid yellow wire): Video card power connector.

This distribution is perfect, as it separates the CPU (ATX12V/EPS12V), the video card and all the rest on different rails.

Now let’s see if this power supply can really deliver 500 W.