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Antec Tries, But Can't Confirm Anandtech's Claims

Antec sent us an e-mail giving us some details as to what is going on with the whole Antec/Tyan/Anandtech Power Supply issue in hopes of making things right. It seems that Antec is asking Anandtech to give up their source at Monarch or they want the article retracted since it is unfounded without a source. We got brought into this because we update the news daily and companies keep tab of our news page! Looks like we are doing something right!

We have some strong issues with the unsupported claims in your article. Our sources at Monarch, including their Technical Support Manager, do not know whom you got this information from, nor can they provide us with corroborating data. Further testing done directly between Antec and Tyan showed the following: The S2882 has been phased out, but Tyan tested other motherboards with TP2-550EPS12V and both 12V rail reading were around 12.03V and 11.97V. They ran 100% burn in test and SST test at the same time. Both CPUs consumed 14A during the burn in test. But neither 12V rail dropped below 11.9V, and no faults were seen.

Posted by | Tue, Nov 22, 2005 - 04:49 PM