Thermaltake Toughpower 1500 W Review

Name: Thermaltake Toughpower 1500 W
Brand: Thermaltake

crmaris

on Oct 16th, 2011,

in Power Supplies.

Manufacturer: Thermaltake

Value & Conclusion »

Ripple Measurements

In the following table you will find the ripple levels that we measured on the main rails of TP-1500M. According to ATX specification the limits are 120 mV (+12V) and 50 mV (5V, 3.3V and 5VSB).

Ripple Measurements Thermaltake TP-1500M
Test	12 V	5 V	3.3 V	5VSB	Pass/Fail
20% Load	6.3 mV	6.1 mV	11.2 mV	8.1 mV	Pass
40% Load	9.1 mV	8.3 mV	12.0 mV	9.2 mV	Pass
50% Load	11.4 mV	10.2 mV	13.4 mV	10.0 mV	Pass
60% Load	11.9 mV	11.7 mV	15.3 mV	11.1 mV	Pass
80% Load	15.0 mV	14.4 mV	22.1 mV	15.4 mV	Pass
100% Load	23.5 mV	17.6 mV	28.2 mV	21.0 mV	Pass
Crossload 1	8.2 mV	9.8 mV	11.6 mV	11.6 mV	Pass
Crossload 2	21.0 mV	15.9 mV	25.4 mV	18.2 mV	Pass

Ripple at +12V is outstandingly low. It's very impressive, to say the least, to draw 1500W from a unit and the measured ripple on the most important rail does not to exceed 24 mV. Enhance did an excellent job here. Regarding the minor rails, ripple suppression at 5V is very good while 3.3V registers a little higher ripple, below 30mV though. Finally, 5VSB perform excellent since even with 6A load, ripple barely exceeds 20mV.

Ripple at Full Load

In the following oscilloscope screenshots you can see the AC ripple and noise that the main rails registered (+12V, 5V, 3.3V and 5VSB). The bigger the fluctuations on the oscilloscope's screen the bigger the ripple/noise. For all measurements we set 0.01 V/Div (each vertical division/box equals to 0.01V) as standard.