Poll: your highest efficiency PSU?

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Your highest efficiency PSU?

  • Unrated

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • White

    Votes: 2 3.6%

  • Bronze

    Votes: 3 5.4%

  • Silver

    Votes: 1 1.8%

  • Gold

    Votes: 21 37.5%

  • Platinum

    Votes: 9 16.1%

  • Titanium

    Votes: 20 35.7%
  • Total voters
    56
BFG10K

BFG10K

Lifer
Aug 14, 2000
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I just finished installing my Seasonic 600W Titanium fanless, so I'm now officially in the Titanium club.

I'm now curious to get a polling of everyone else's highest efficiency.
 
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lakedude

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Mar 14, 2009
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Nice PS. As I learned more about computers and efficiency I paid more attention to power supplies. Back in the early days I didn't care beans about the PS but now I make sure to at least get bronze. I'm sure there has been at least a gold in there somewhere but never anything like what you have purchased.
 
mikeymikec

mikeymikec

Lifer
May 19, 2011
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I'll probably get something higher than a bronze the next time I have to upgrade my PSU, but my current one is working fine and I consider my budget to be firmly in the "only replace it if absolutely necessary" bracket for the foreseeable future.
 
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rchunter

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Feb 26, 2015
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Most of my desktop machines have Corsair HX series. I think those are gold rated, not positive though.
My supermicro rackmount cases have titanium rated power supplies.
 
Hail The Brain Slug

Hail The Brain Slug

Diamond Member
Oct 10, 2005
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Whenever I need a new power supply, I buy from the highest efficiency rating premium line Seasonic offers. I started a long time ago with the S12-600 and today I have the 1000W Prime Titanium.
 
13Gigatons

13Gigatons

Diamond Member
Apr 19, 2005
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Truthfully there isn't that much difference between them. I worry more about quality and long life.
 
Gt403cyl

Gt403cyl

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Jun 12, 2018
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For me it really depends on the build.... my main build has an AX860i Platinum, my others have bronze and gold...
If the build is going to be used for heavy loads frequently they I got for higher efficiency, if it's mainly going to be idle or rarely used then bronze/gold pending the deals I can find...
 
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DaveSimmons

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Aug 12, 2001
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XabanakFanatik said:
Whenever I need a new power supply, I buy from the highest efficiency rating premium line Seasonic offers. I started a long time ago with the S12-600 and today I have the 1000W Prime Titanium.
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Same, my last 3-4 gaming PC PSUs have been Seasonic and they've never let me down. For my i7-8700 build last December I got the 650 watt Titanium since I don't overclock and only use a single GPU.
 
BonzaiDuck

BonzaiDuck

Lifer
Jun 30, 2004
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XabanakFanatik said:
Whenever I need a new power supply, I buy from the highest efficiency rating premium line Seasonic offers. I started a long time ago with the S12-600 and today I have the 1000W Prime Titanium.
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My experience is the same. Switched to exclusively Seasonic units some ten years ago. Of the several I've ordered, I've had two DOA. It's nice that Seasonic now bundles a 24-pin plug to do the equivalent of the "green-wire test." I'm still waiting to receive a replacement Titanium PRIME unit that was DOA and sent back under RMA.

The Titanium units have 10 and 12-year warranties. I think I have three of them in operation.

As for spec wattage, I don't order units rated higher than 750W. SLI capability is no longer important, and graphics cards use less power, as do SSDs and 2.5" lappie drives that seem to work well in my desktops.
 
Hail The Brain Slug

Hail The Brain Slug

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bigboxes said:
This and I have a 1000W Prime Titatnium in the home server.
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I'm a little surprised at how many Prime Titanium owners we have in this thread. The Prime Titanium line is awesome because it seems to be binned and underrated Prime Platinum units with OCP unchanged. They all have around 25-30% headroom over the rated capacity due to that. Kitguru showed the 1000w would allow over 1300w draw before OCP tripped (there's a 1300w platinum model, weird), but it dropped to platinum efficiency levels as they approached 1300w.
 
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Campy

Senior member
Jun 25, 2010
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I have a Seasonic Prime Titanium 650W.

BFG10K said:
Usually the higher efficiency ones automatically give you that, too.

Usually,
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Do you have any examples of platinum and titanium units that are low quality? That sounds peculiar, but interesting.
 
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Batboy88

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I don't care really what it is...As long it Meets Intel's Hold up time and some don't...and good Protection stuff and or PFC and at least decent Regulation you are fine.
 
bigboxes

bigboxes

Lifer
Apr 6, 2002
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BonzaiDuck said:
I'm still waiting to receive a replacement Titanium PRIME unit that was DOA and sent back under RMA.
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Next time, just return it back to the seller for a replacement. Well, unless you waiting longer than 30 days to fire it up.
 
mnewsham

mnewsham

Lifer
Oct 2, 2010
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Had a bronze unit from ~2007 that I replaced with a titanium unit when I did a new build a few years ago. If all goes well, I plan on having it last until at least 2022 or so.
 
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