| Corsair VX450W Power Supply Review |
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| Corsair / VX450W 450-Watt ATX 120mm Fan SATA-Ready Power Supply 80Plus CMPSU-450VX |
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| Transient Filtering Stage |
 As we mentioned on other articles and reviews, the first place we like to take a look when opening a power supply to have a hint about its quality is its filtering stage. The recommend components for this stage are two ferrite coils, two ceramic capacitors (Y capacitors, usually blue), one metalized polyester capacitor (X capacitor) and one MOV (Metal-Oxide Varistor). Very low-end power supplies use fewer components than that, usually removing the MOV and the first coil. This power supply is impeccable, bringing one extra X capacitor and one extra ferrite coil on this stage, plus two additional Y capacitors and one additional X capacitor after the rectifying bridge.  click to enlarge Figure 6: Transient filtering stage (part 1).
 click to enlarge Figure 7: Transient filtering stage (part 2).
Now let’s have a more detailed discussion on the components used on VX450W. |
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