Effect of Insufficient Power Supply in a PC. Most casual business users don't give a lot of thought to their computer's power supply unless they use a laptop and lose its AC adapter. However ...

Configuring a custom gaming PC is both fun and rigorous work. First, you get to research your components –- case, motherboard, CPU, GPU, memory, storage, peripherals, cooling, and power supply unit.

Power Supply 101: Power Output This is one of the most important things to consider when buying a power supply for your next PC build. It's extremely critical to buy a unit that could pull enough ...

The PC power supply has been a standard of the junk box for the last couple of decades, and will probably continue to be for the foreseeable future. A product that is often built to a very high sta… ...

Some Power Supply Units are programmed to spin the fan when the computer draws power over a specific amount, say 15% (this can differ for the computers or PSUs of different brands).

How Power Supplies Work Electrically speaking, power supplies do more than just plug the computer into an AC wall outlet. Different components within the computer require different levels of power.

When you're assembling your perfect computer, there are ways to save some money, but you should not compromise by getting a used power supply. Here's why.

When it comes to PC building, one of the most critical components is the PSU or Power Supply Unit. Depending on how much each piece of connected hardware, e.g., CPU, GPU, RAM, and others, you will ...

A computer power supply converts AC into multiple DC voltages. For example, 12 volts is commonly used for drives, while 3.3v and 5v are used by the chips and other motherboard components.

The 80 Plus program (www.80plus.org) is pleased to announce that the first desktop computer power supply has passed the world's toughest energy efficiency specification. Seasonic's model SS-400HT ...

If you're wary of building a PC but want to avoid lock-in from weird proprietary cases and motherboards, the Velocity Micro ...

The Computer History Museum has some surviving pages of Seymour Cray’s design notebook (Courtesy of the Computer History Museum) The initial model, the Cray-1A , weighed 5.5 tons including the Freon ...