uziq wrote:
oh and about the evga stuff, there's two issues that we're conflating. with regards to the rating stuff, yes it's an efficiency certificate, but a lower-rated PSU will generate more heat which will wear out the capacitors faster, heat up the ambient temp of your case, and normally the noise levels of the case fans, too. not to mention the fact that, depending on your energy costs and what sort of loads you will run it at, you could probably pay for the difference between the bronze->gold PSU taken over a year or two of inefficient energy consumption in your power bill.
the thing about EVGA is that, at least when i was into building PCs, their PSUs came near the bottom of the charts for voltage regulation, ripple, etc. again, you may say i'm being salty because i had a PSU fail on an old computer (not an EVGA PSU, fyi), but my point is that it's the sort of thing that only ever has to fail once and then all of your beautiful build is bricked. why go for the most inefficient and arguably one of the poorest constructed options when the difference is ultimately $40 bucks? again, don't give me some hackneyed analogies about cocaine use. i only buy that pure fish scale, hombre.
There's two issues
you are conflating, 'hombre'. I don't know why the efficiency rating is even being discussed. Know what the difference between bronze and gold is? About 4%. I'll pony up the extra $5 a year. It'll hurt, but I'll make it.
Speaking of stretching an argument, "lower-rated PSU will generate more heat which will wear out the capacitors faster"? You mean that 4% that gets converted to heat and noise? Something tells me this build isn't going to last more than 15 years no matter what I buy. I think the tolerances alone will absorb it.
Keep buying "that pure fish scale."
Last edited by Pocshy2.0 (2017-02-25 15:38:30)
