The inside of a 650-watt High Power ATX12VO power supply is pretty empty, thanks to the lack of circuits for 3.3-volt and 5-volt rails. The cabling is also fairly simple.

The output from the power adapter under no load is 5.1338V/0.8147A. The output from the USB port was 4.964V. Next, try putting a load on the CPU and USB port.

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PCs originally ran mostly on 5 volts, but over time they’ve shifted mostly to 12-volt power. One PSU maker, for example, pointed to a circa-2006, 600-watt supply it made that had 25 percent of ...

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