SilverStone Strider ST56F 560W
In order to properly stress the SilverStone Strider ST56F 560W unit, we had placed the power supply unit on one of our power-hungry workstations. Composing this test setup was a recently reviewed Tyan Tomcat i7230A S5160, which is powered by the E7230 (Mukilteo) + ICH-7R Chipset, and features the latest-and-greatest when it comes to Intel happenings. The Tyan motherboard is also strict with its power requirements when it comes to having a 24-pin and 8-pin EPS12V/SSI power source. Other power hungry components were a NVIDIA GeForce 6800GT PCI Express x16 as well as a Pentium D 820. Unfortunately, due to the motherboard used we were unable to test the power supply when the processor was overclocked. Cooling the system was Swiftech's latest enthusiast water cooling setup and ran using a 12V DC pump.
| Hardware Components | |
| Processor: | Intel Pentium 4 530 (3.0GHz) |
| Memory: | 4 x 512MB DDR2-667 (4-4-4-12) |
| Graphics Card: | eVGA GeForce 6800GT 256MB |
| Hard Drives: | Western Digital 160GB SATA |
| Optical Drives: | Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM |
| Cooling: | Swiftech H20-220 APEX Ultra |
| Power Supply: | SilverStone Strider 560W |
| Software Components | |
| Operating System: | Fedora Core 4 |
| Linux Kernel: | 2.6.14-1.656_FC4smp |
| GCC (GNU Compiler): | 4.0.0 |
| Graphics Driver: | NVIDIA 1.0-8178 |
| Xorg: | 6.8.2 |
Before we move onto measuring the voltage rails under idle and load, we took notice to the airflow throughout the power supply as it was running in our open-air environment. Although we had not pulled out any airflow monitoring systems, there was adequate airflow when resorting to our traditional testing methods. Allowing the system to idle, we had simply let the system run inside of GNOME for 30 minutes with no active programs running in the background and power management disabled; followed by recording the various voltages. As for stressing the system, we had ran CPU Burn-In v1.00 for 30 minutes while simultaneously running Doom 3, in order to adequately stress both the processor and video card. Measuring the voltages was a calibrated WinMax Global (WIN8696) digital multimeter. The first 12V rail was measured from a 4-pin molex connector while the second 12V rail was monitored from the secondary PCI Express connector. Below are our official results.
