How are an ATX and a PS2 Power Supply Different?

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1. What Do You Know about ATX?

ATX stands for Advanced Technology eXtended. In 1995, it was developed by Intel to enhance on previous de facto standards like AT design, as ATX is a motherboard as well as the power supply configuration. Power supply design in many years, enhancing standardization and interchangeability of parts, also the initial major change in desktop computers, the motherboard was accessible in it. Moreover, the power connector interfaces among a computer case, a motherboard, and a power supply, the mounting points; the I/O panel, and the dimensions are defined by these specifications in the ATX.

2. What Do You Know about PS2?

PS2 also stands for the PlayStation 2. It was marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment and this home video game console was developed. In Europe on November 24, 2000, and in Australia on November 30, 2000, and in Japan on March 4, 2000, in North America on October 26, 2000, PS2 was first released. And later made a big name. The second installment in the PlayStation 2 console line-up, as the successor to the original PlayStation. With some titles being published on CD-ROM, software for the PlayStation 2 was distributed primarily on DVD-ROM. Also, the is backward-compatible with almost all original PlayStation games, the console can play audio CDs and DVD movies. Moreover, other games, such as Gran Turismo 4 and Tourist Trophy are known to support up-scaled 1080i resolution and PlayStation 2 may natively output video resolutions on SDTV and HDTV from 480i to 480p.

3. How are an ATX and a PS2 Power Supply Different?

Both the PS2 and ATX supply are similar in many aspects. However, there might be some differences in them such as. There are many connectors coming and they go into different devices, as the ARX power supply has multiple connectors. One into each device you connect to the board, at least two go into the motherboard. 

Moreover, PS2 consists of 150mm (W) x 86mm (H) x 140mm (D) standard dimensions. The difference between the PS2 and ATX is, PS2 is not that complex and complicated as the ARX. It does not have so many connectors that you can attach them to multiple devices. 

ATX is the power supply mainly for desktop computers, however, PS2 does not mainly function like that. Another difference as mentioned above is that the power route to different components internally, for the PS2 adapter has a single pin. It is basically a transformer with a rectifier in it, as it is a relatively low-powered device as compared to other devices such as ATX in general.