Super Flower Golden Silent 500 W Review

Name: Super Flower Golden Silent 500 W
Brand: Super Flower

crmaris

on Aug 26th, 2011,

in Power Supplies.

Manufacturer: Super Flower

Value & Conclusion »

Ripple Measurements

In the following table you will find the ripple levels that we measured on the main rails of SF-500P14FG. According to ATX specification the limits are 120 mV (+12V) and 50 mV (5V, 3.3V and 5VSB).

Ripple Measurements Super Flower SF-500P14FG
Test	12 V	5 V	3.3 V	5VSB	Pass/Fail
20% Load	11.2 mV	8.6 mV	7.4 mV	5.2 mV	Pass
40% Load	13.2 mV	9.2 mV	8.6 mV	5.8 mV	Pass
50% Load	14.2 mV	9.2 mV	9.2 mV	6.4 mV	Pass
60% Load	15.0 mV	9.8 mV	10.6 mV	6.8 mV	Pass
80% Load	18.2 mV	11.2 mV	13.4 mV	8.0 mV	Pass
100% Load	21.8 mV	14.8 mV	19.4 mV	9.6 mV	Pass
120% Load	27.8 mV	17.0 mV	21.8 mV	11.0 mV	Pass
Crossload 1	14.8 mV	15.8 mV	17.8 mV	6.2 mV	Pass
Crossload 2	18.2 mV	10.2 mV	12.6 mV	7.0 mV	Pass

Ripple/noise suppression is very good and even when we overpowered the PSU to 600W we didn't notice any dramatic increases in ripple. This clearly shows that Super Flower paid extra attention to ripple filtering and the result is definitely noteworthy.

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 0.02 V/Div (each vertical division/box equals to 0.02V) as standard.