NZXT HALE90 V2 1000 W Review

Name: NZXT HALE90 V2 1000 W
Brand: NZXT

crmaris

on Feb 25th, 2013,

in Power Supplies.

Manufacturer: NZXT

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Ripple Measurements

You will see the ripple levels that we measured on the main rails of the HALE90 V2 1000 W 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 NZXT HALE90 V2 1000W
Test	12 V	5 V	3.3 V	5VSB	Pass/Fail
20% Load	8.2 mV	11.7 mV	8.0 mV	19.7 mV	Pass
40% Load	9.4 mV	14.7 mV	8.0 mV	21.3 mV	Pass
50% Load	10.6 mV	13.5 mV	9.5 mV	21.7 mV	Pass
60% Load	11.2 mV	14.7 mV	9.6 mV	23.7 mV	Pass
80% Load	13.7 mV	16.4 mV	12.4 mV	25.3 mV	Pass
100% Load	13.4 mV	20.7 mV	16.2 mV	28.8 mV	Pass
110% Load	16.2 mV	19.4 mV	15.1 mV	15.9 mV	Pass
Crossload 1	10.1 mV	9.2 mV	9.0 mV	15.2 mV	Pass
Crossload 2	13.9 mV	23.9 mV	15.9 mV	35.5 mV	Pass

Ripple suppression on all rails was very good. Especially the performance of the +12V rail on this test left us speechless. Very few high-capacity PSUs have, so far, managed to register ripple below 15 mV on this rail during the full load test. Even with 110% load, ripple at +12V barely exceeded 16 mV, a jaw-dropping performance. FSP apparently managed to fix the ripple suppression problems that tormented their older ACRF designs we meet in AURUM PSUs.

Strangely enough, ripple on the minor rails decreased with the 110% load test, and the difference was especially huge at 5VSB! This is the first time that we see a PSU register lower ripple on the minors while we overload them. FSP's new platform is full of pleasant surprises.

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 equals 0.01 V) as standard.