XFX XTS Series 1000 W Review

Name: XFX XTS Series 1000 W
Brand: XFX

crmaris

on Nov 21st, 2014,

in Power Supplies.

Manufacturer: XFX

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Ripple Measurements

You will see the ripple levels we measured on the rails of the XTS-1000 in the following table. The limits are, according to the ATX specification, 120 mV (+12V) and 50 mV (5V, 3.3V, and 5VSB).

Ripple Measurements - XFX XTS-1000
Test	12 V	5 V	3.3 V	5VSB	Pass/Fail
10% Load	16.9 mV	10.6 mV	14.0 mV	4.5 mV	Pass
20% Load	22.0 mV	11.5 mV	14.9 mV	5.0 mV	Pass
30% Load	21.1 mV	11.4 mV	15.0 mV	5.4 mV	Pass
40% Load	19.6 mV	11.8 mV	14.6 mV	6.1 mV	Pass
50% Load	20.0 mV	11.8 mV	16.2 mV	7.3 mV	Pass
60% Load	21.4 mV	12.6 mV	15.2 mV	7.6 mV	Pass
70% Load	22.9 mV	13.0 mV	16.0 mV	8.4 mV	Pass
80% Load	25.4 mV	14.1 mV	15.7 mV	8.9 mV	Pass
90% Load	28.2 mV	14.7 mV	16.1 mV	10.1 mV	Pass
100% Load	30.5 mV	15.8 mV	16.5 mV	11.2 mV	Pass
110% Load	32.7 mV	16.5 mV	17.2 mV	11.9 mV	Pass
Crossload 1	20.4 mV	14.2 mV	14.6 mV	26.2 mV	Pass
Crossload 2	30.3 mV	13.9 mV	13.5 mV	11.2 mV	Pass

Ripple suppression was as expected: excellent. It may not be at Delta's or Super Flower's awesome levels, but surely belongs to the high-end since the +12V rail barely registered 30 mV with the full load. And while the 5VSB rail produced more than 20 mV in our CL1 test, a highly unrealistic scenario, none of the other rails produced more than 20 mV under even the worst conditions.

Ripple at Full Load

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