You probably have read the reviews of the FSP400-60GLN Green 400W PSU and the Zalman ZM460-APS. This post is about their little cousin, the FSP300-60GLS. This is a microATX powersupply that has all the same environmental properties that the two reviewed PSU's have. In the picture above you can see the typical row of small vent holes near the roof of the PSU that all these recent Fortron powersupplies have.
The batteries of my camera were empty when I received the powersupply. I am pretty impatient too. So by the time the batteries were recharged, I had already disassembled the powersupply. Here you can see the fairly open stamped fan grille. There are some vent holes next to the opening for the wires too.
Pretty standard hex grille on the rear. This PSU has "Full Range Input" (100-240V,50-60Hz), so there is no voltage selector.
There are three heatsinks. Just thin aluminium sheets, to keep the weight low. The white stuff on the rightmost heatsink is thermal goop. If you look to the right picture above, then you can see where it connects to the outer shell. When the PSU is assembled, there is a screw holding the heatsink to the shell.
Some more pictures of the electronics.
Fairly typical Forton labels. If you are German speaking, then you are allowed to open the PSU. If you are English speaking, then you are not.
"vor dem öffnen des gerätes netzstecker ziehen" would normally translate into "pull the power plug before opening the appliance"
The main ATX plug is 24-pins. The last four pins are detachable, so it can transform into a 20-pin plug. From right to left (in the right picture):
- 24-pin ATX = 32cm
- 4-pin AUX12V = 32cm
- SATA = 32cm
- Molex & Molex = 32cm + 16cm
- Molex & Floppy = 32cm + 15cm
These are the specs of the Protechnic Electric MGA8012XS-A15 pictured above:
- Sleeve bearing
- Size 80x80x15 (mm)
- Voltage 12 (VDC)
- Operating Current 0.23 (A)
- Power 2.76 (W)
- Air Pressure 4.07 (mmAq) 0.16 (InchAq)
- Air Flow 0.905 (CMM) 31.92 (CFM)
- Speed 3400 (RPM)
- Noise 39.4 (dBA)
I don't have a big testing rig for measuring efficiency. The best I can do is putting several PSU's in the same test setup.
- Two level wooden platform
- MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard
- AMD Athlon64 3000+ (Winchester) processor (OC: 1980MHz @ 1.4V)
- Corsair 256MB XMS DDR-400 memory (2x)
- Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 CPU cooler
- Seagate 7200.7 40GB PATA harddrive
- LG GCC-4520B optical drive
- Nexus 120mm Real Silent case fan
- CoolerMate Silver Leo bay bus
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PSU SS-301HT FSP300-60GLS True380SP
Power consumption (W)
Off 1 1-2 5
Idle 50 51 69-71
CPUburn 76 79 101-102
"Efficiency" (%)
60W 79 76 59
65W 86 82 64