MSI MEG Ai1300P PCIE5

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Both of our approaches ultimately failed, as all of the PSUs we currently have available would shut down at most tests above 120% power excursion- therefore we need not worry about our loads being insufficient to test the MEG Ai1300P at 200% excursion (we are also currentlylimited to 2400 Watts on the 12V line). Theoretically, testing with the RMS-equivalent duty cycle times should work and the PSUs should not be shutting down, yet we cannot claim that the units are not technically capable of meeting their specifications when our equipment is not meant to be running such tests. Electrolytic: 5x Nippon Chemi-Con (105°C, W), 1x Nichicon (2-5,000h @ 105°C, HD), 4x Nippon Chemi-Con (4-10,000h @ 105°C, KY), 1x Nippon Chemi-Con (2-5,000h @ 105°C, KZE), 3x Rubycon (4-10,000h @ 105°C, YXJ), 3x Rubycon (4-10,000h @ 105°C, YXF) Both of our approaches ultimately failed, as all of the PSUs we currently have available would shut down at most tests above 120% power excursion– therefore we need not worry about our loads being insufficient to test the MEG Ai1300P at 200% excursion (we are also currentlylimited to 2400 Watts on the 12V line). Theoretically, testing with the RMS-equivalent duty cycle times should work and the PSUs should not be shutting down, yet we cannot claim that the units are not technically capable of meeting their specifications when our equipment is not meant to be running such tests.

MSI's real time power monitor works via the MSI Center app and is useful if you wish to monitor power supplied to the system. Intel requires the PSUs to have a slew rate of at least 5 A/μS, so an electronic load must be at least as fast as that figure to be able to perform ATX 3.0 compliance testing. From a professional’s point of view, proper testing would require the testing equipment to be at least 30% faster than the absolute minimum required. This requires a highly advanced (and expensive)electronic load with multiple modules, like the Chroma Mainframe andHigh-Speed modulesIntel themselves is using, which has a total slew rate of 8 A/μS and it would need only 0.02 ms to get the load from 65 A all the way up to 215 A – and that still is 20% of the test’s required 0.1 mstime in our example, a figure that many expertswould find far too great for precise measurements.We feel this design is going to split opinion. The Asian community tend to love gold accented tech products, the European audience, not so much. It is nicely finished, but I am not a fan of the gold touches. Klarna Bank AB (publ) is Authorised by the Swedish Financial Services Authority (Finansinspektionen) and is subject to limited regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority.

In light of the new ATX 3.0 standard, we took a shot at adding power excursion compliance testing into our articles. Given that this is the big addition to the ATX 3.0 specification– and indeed its very reason for being – it's where we would like to see if PSUs are truly living up to the very high standards set by the new specification. Load regulation holds well across the board. Within 2%. This is a very good result for MSI. MSI MEG Ai1300P Regardless of the somewhat daft naming – this 120mm fan has been used by MSI quite extensively since 2016 – under the ‘TORX fan' naming. The model PLA12025S12H-4 has been used with various MSI products, including CPU coolers.

Real-Time Power Status Monitor: Through the MSI Center, this power supply helps monitor the real-time status of the percentage of power supplied to GPU and CPU and the total system wattage used.

What one can take away from the above table is the MSI MEG Ai1300P has everything you need for a powerful PC build. We don't have the means to measure ripple and other variations in power conversion, but we are able to monitor efficiency and how the power supply performs through use with a PC. While I understand that is true - in terms of comparing temperature readings from different PSUs - what I can compare this PSU to, relative to other PSUs, is the fact that no others that I've used in my office (even in systems with similar specs) have made me feel physical heat in this way. And certainly not to the point where I'm investigating to this extent. I'd be lying if I said there wasn't some buyer's remorse in that respect. It was an unexpected byproduct of this build, though certainly my own fault for not investigating as much as I could've. The other side of the power supply houses the modular connectors. The power supply can support current generation graphics cards, and if you pay attention you can see the +12VHPWR connector top left which means you can also connect up a new Nvidia RTX 4000 series graphics card.

Main Output Load (Watts) 264.41 W 659.2 W 975.71 W 1297.87 W Load (Percent) 20.34% 50.71% 75.05% 99.84% Amperes Volts Amperes Volts Amperes Volts Amperes Volts 3.3 V 2.32 3.37 5.79 3.37 8.68 3.36 11.58 3.35 5 V 2.32 5.06 5.79 5.05 8.68 5.03 11.58 5.02 12 V 20.07 12.2 50.16 12.17 75.24 12 100.33 11.97

The resistance of the MSI MEG Ai1300P PCIE5 unit to adverse ambient conditions is astonishing, with the unit hardly affected at all while operating inside our hotbox. There is a practically negligible efficiency degradation of 0.2-0.3% depending on the load, a figure four to six times lower than other similar designs. There is very little additional degradation under heavy loads, suggesting that the components of the MSI MEG Ai1300P PCIE5 are not thermally stressed at all. To be fully compliant with ATX 3.0, there’s also a timing value that the power supply unit must meet. The MEG Ai1300P PCIE5 is fully compliant with that timing value as shown in the chart below. MSI MEG Ai1300P & MPG A1000G Gen5 PSUs Final Impressions The mysterious triangle is a symbolic icon of MEG's infinite power, with the triangle's slope further extending the three pillars of MEG's core characteristics: legendary, loyalty, and luxurious. For the testing of PSUs, we are using high precision electronic loads with a maximum power draw of 2700 Watts, a Rigol DS5042M 40 MHz oscilloscope, an Extech 380803 power analyzer, two high precision UNI-T UT-325 digital thermometers, an Extech HD600 SPL meter, a self-designed hotbox and various other bits and parts. For a thorough explanation of our testing methodology and more details on our equipment, please refer to our How We Test PSUs - 2014 Pipeline post.Nevertheless, we took a shot at testing the power excursion capabilities of the MSI MEG Ai1300P PCIE and of thefew ATX 3.0 compliant units that we currently have available. We took two approaches:one by assuming that our electronic loads are “ideal” and programmed the exact duty cycle figures that Intel dictates in their guide, and one by trying to take into account the real slew rate times of our loads and calculate the RMS equivalent duty cycle.