Posts by Phaedrus2129

What's the connection to Studio Ghibli? I don't get it, aside from it being pretty.

Not such a surprising choice, considering.

Maybe. It would be kind of weird though, you'd have to do a lot of last minute changes to packaging, the manual, and marketing. The 80PLUS info for the RS-500-ACAA-B1 went up March 13, but it's not labeled as either G500 or i500, just...

I checked and the G series that CoolerMaster announced has the same part # as this I series -- RS-500-ACAA-B1. And the look through the back grille appears the same. It's odd though, because the reps I spoke to talked about the I and G...

Quote:Originally Posted by azrael36 hmm mind if I ask what you did with evga? Product manager on their PSU line.

Last year, my second week in EVGA's Taiwan lab. I believe it was the second time we moved the Chroma rack from room to room, he'd shown me how to unhook it the first time, so the second time I started to do it--not thinking that the...

Quote:Originally Posted by azrael36 no, no, no gentlemen, when you need to be certain that the 480 and 270 aren't live before you pull that line from the terminal you reach for a fluke I almost killed myself with a 400V 3-phase...

Yeah, department store DMMs are nothing special, but they're good enough for rough estimates. One brand new out of the box should do for +/-1% at the voltages we're talking about. I wouldn't trust an old crusty one, or for it to be...

Quote:Originally Posted by azrael36 I had an eXtremepower mess up a board n cpu, and Rajiv has an I series 500 coming my way with some assorted swag, are there specific tests one can do to put load on it while monitoring output etc?...

Quote:Originally Posted by shilka Do you have any more info about the G and I series? Not at this time. I visited their office. I didn't see any G or I series units lying around; they might not have had samples on hand. I did play...