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What is the role of power supply?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 10/4/2022

A computer power supply takes in electricity from it's source, we'll say for example a 120 volt wall outlet and then transforms it into the native 12 volt power usually required by system boards.

It also provides other power leads as needed for devices, such as 3.3 volt for smaller devices, controllers and the like, and 5 volt for a CD-rom drive or hard drive?

A good power supply also cleans up the power some and takes the brunt of all fluctuations in the source power.

Hope this helps!

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Marta Bins

Lvl 10
3y ago

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