Article 80 Plus Certification Going Away?

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I saw that Corsair was dropping the 80 Plus Certification from their PSUs. Others may follow suit as well. Found this article about it too

Decades of PC building advice was just overturned | Digital Trends

The 80 Plus certification has been the marker of a quality power supply for decades, but it's slowly biting the dust.

www.digitaltrends.com

 

[mikeymikec]

I'd like to see a decent review of the worth of this new certification system.

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

I'd like to see a decent review of the worth of this new certification system.

Cybernetics testing has been used a while now, you'll find many top brands provide an 80 Plus certification along with the validation sheet from cybernetics. They cover testing of far more aspects of the power supply including a full efficiency chart instead of just giving some blind tiers with no real data behind them (all you know is the psu met the bare minimum to achieve the 80 plus tier, nothing more).

Most of the time the cybernetics sheet is made available on the product page, you can go look at some yourself and see how much more thorough the testing is.

Edit: they changed how this information is presented, I guess you have to look a model up on cybernetics website and it's presented on a web page instead of a pdf sheet. Here's an example of one - https://www.cybenetics.com/evaluations/psus/2263/

 

[mindless1]

Mixed feelings, I mean 80+ certification wasn't that important to me, in that I recall many good quality PSU back in the day, that weren't 80+ efficient and it didn't bother me - running say a 250W load and whether the total draw was 295W vs 330W, but I do appreciate that less heat generated in the PSU, tends to increase lifespan, or allow reduced airflow through it for lower noise and dust (if the case isn't filtered).

I had more of an issue with group regulation, when putting together systems with atypical crossloading, like minimial power nas. Even so, I appreciate the argument that all else equal, a better quality semi-modern PSU will have 80+ certification, yet that doesn't tell the whole story and more testing is superior.

I think they shouldn't drop the 80+ cert, because the whole industry isn't, rather have the cybernetics along side it. Even if imperfect, that, along with reviews testing the claim, gives a little more info to evaluate PSU that don't have a cybernetics cert. Plus, we could debate at what skill level someone is competent to build their own *PC*, but many people start to get glossy cow eyes if you give them too much information, can't sort through it or discriminate which of it is more significant. That is not an argument against more info, but I feel that keeping it simple, helps in some cases.