Thermaltake, the leading PC DIY premium brand for Cooling, Gaming Gear, and Enthusiast Memory solutions, proudly introduces the Smart BM2 750W/650W/550W/450W Bronze Power Supply Units. This series of PSU is budget-friendly and has a semi-modular flat cable design which provides effortless cable routing. The Smart BM2 Series Bronze PSU is 150mm in width, 160mm in-depth, and 86mm in height, and they also adapt high quality Japanese main capacitors, which improves durability and offers high stability.

If your PC has a power supply rated at 500 watts, the amount of power that it actually pulls from a wall outlet could be higher. Learn how PC power supply efficiency affects electricity costs and how to reduce your energy bill with Energy Star products.

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The 80 Plus system is used to rate computer power supplies (PSUs) based on their reliability and efficiency. If you don’t understand the system, you’ll have to be lucky to avoid spending too much money or getting a too-weak power supply. The 80 Plus power supply rating system is simple and requires only a quick review to internalize.

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Artesyn Embedded Technologies today announced that its CNS653-ME and LCM1500-Q AC-DC power supplies have received 80 PLUS® certifications for 115 volt industrial units.

Houston, we got a problem.... the EIA also estimates that some 6% of electricity generated in the U.S. goes to waste in supply and disposition—more than 14 million megawatt­hours annually at current rates of consumption. Reducing just a portion of this waste through efficiency improvements could make it possible to slow the growth of demand, and accelerate the closing of inefficient and polluting coal­fired power plants.

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Having committed themselves to ‘green image’ in switch mode power supplies (SMPS) for two decades, FSP Group's corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities reflect in their dedicated policies toward safety, quality and environment. By innovation in improving the performance of SMPS, they put the Group’s CSR into action in energy saving and carbon footprint reducing product design. Among 80 PLUS® certified power supply list, FSP Group’s brands headed the list with more than 390 models.

Ecova, the total energy and sustainability management company, today announces a new 80 PLUS certification for 115V industrial power supplies, physical units that power industrial applications by converting AC power into DC power.