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Installation & Testing
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The
Pitbull was installed into my overclocked AMD Athlon XP based system, with the
specifications as outlined in the table. There were more than enough
connectors to go around, and the install was very painless. I did add a rubber
power supply gasket, more to protect the finish from the chassis than to
dampen noise. The Phantom case that this system is housed in was also a review
item from Logisys…that review can be found in the ExtremeMhz review archive.
The whole installation probably took about ten minutes at the most, and
included the removal of the original power supply.
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Processor |
AMD |
Athlon XP 2500+
Barton Core |
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Motherboard |
Abit |
NF7-S V2 |
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RAM |
Corsair |
TwinX 2700 DDR-RAM |
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Video Card |
Asus |
9280S Ti4200 128M |
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Hard Drive |
Western Digital |
WD2000JD SATA |
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Audio Card |
Integrated |
AC ’97 Codec |
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CD/DVD Drives |
Pioneer/Liteon |
DVR-108/LTN-529S
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Chassis |
Logisys Computer |
Phantom Case |
Testing consisted of measurement of the primary power rails using MBM5 and
verifying the accuracy with a volt meter. The load was accomplished with the
SANDRA Burn-in Wizard, and the system was left to run for an hour before a
second check of the voltages was performed.
**Idle**
**Load**
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only appreciable sag was on the +12V rail, and even that is well within the
usual 5% tolerance. The critical 3.3V and 5V rails that supply voltage to the
motherboard and CPU remained steady.
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