Question Ripple difference between DC load and in PC

[Biophobia]

How can you compare ripple voltage values measured in a review to one done on a power supply in a PC?

I'm sure the review measurements are very accurate with the Chroma dc load arrays, differential probes, etc.

How does someone with a much smaller setup compare those to figure out if it's near the expect range?

E.G. I don't have any DC loads, I have a PC I can hook it up to, I happen to have a differential probe, and I can put capacitors in parallel if needed (looking at ATX ripple spec setup).

Plus throwing in that a PC is probably going to have all sorts of transients, or be completing different tasks that might skew measurements.

 

[Aeacus]

While i can not answer you directly (not that deep into PSU testing), this article of ours should help you further,
link: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/how-we-test-psu,4042.html

Also, here are two videos by Steve (GamersNexus), where jonnyguru explains the innards of PSUs (a good watch);

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keMS-4SYGNU

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDX_1PWUWdw

 

[Biophobia]

Thanks for the resources! It was partly looking through the first article you send that prompted the initially question.

And the GN videos are difinitely very informative, but unfortunately more general for something that I realize is probably too specific of a question to ask. Appreciated!