ASUS P-50GA 500 W Power Supply Review
Overload Tests
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As you know by now, before overloading a power supply we like to see if the over current protection is active and its trigger point. To test this we set current at +12V1 at 1 A and increased current on +12V2 until the power supply shut down. This happened when we tried to pull more than 20 A from the +12V2 rail. It was nice to see the OCP circuit configured at a value close to what is printed on the label (18 A).
Then starting from test five we increased current on all outputs until we reached the maximum the power supply could deliver still working inside ATX specs. The result you can see below. If we increased one amp on any output ripple was higher than the maximum allowed.
The main goal of our overload test is to see if the power supply burns or explodes and if its protections are active. Thus ASUS P-50GA passed this test.
We could pull up to 687 W from this unit, which is always good to see. The problem was efficiency, that was below 70% on this extreme configuration.
| Input | Maximum |
| +12V1 | 20 A (240 W) |
| +12V2 | 20 A (240 W) |
| +5V | 22 A (110 W) |
| +3.3 V | 22 A (72.6 W) |
| +5VSB | 2.5 A (30 W) |
| -12 V | 0.5 A (6 W) |
| Total | 686.8 W |
| % Max Load | 137.4% |
| Room Temp. | 47.5° C |
| PSU Temp. | 54.3° C |
| AC Power | 988.0 W |
| Efficiency | 69.5% |
| AC Voltage | 99.1 V |
| Power Factor | 0.998 |