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Cooler Master eXtreme Power Plus 460 W (RS-460-PMSR-A3) Power Supply Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: May 7, 2008
Page: 3 of 10
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Transient Filtering Stage
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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.

On this stage this power supply is flawless, providing two Y capacitors, one X capacitor and one MOV more than required.

Cooler Master eXtreme Power Plus 460 W (RS-460-PMSR-A3) Power Supply
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Figure 6: Transient filtering stage (part 1).

Cooler Master eXtreme Power Plus 460 W (RS-460-PMSR-A3) Power Supply
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Figure 7: Transient filtering stage (part 2).

Now let’s have a more detailed discussion on the components used on eXtreme Power Plus 460 W.

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