yeah I built my own PC. How could you tell?
yeah I built my own PC. How could you tell?
My cable management is so bad I can't close my case but I don't care
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Why did you put an 850W power supply in that? You could probably put a 650W that's much nicer for the same price.
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It was on sale and I thought "eh what the hell I'll upgrade sometime down the road"
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Yeah, as long as you're pulling more than like 20% of the rated power then having a slightly overspec power supply is only going to bring you good things.
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What about a worse power bill?
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The PSU doesn't use more power just because it has a higher maximum capacity. Plus, a PSU is most efficient at partial loads (usually around 60-70%)
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A PSU with an efficiency rating, like 80 Plus, will be more efficient than that PSU, even near 100% load (which it wouldn't be usually).
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Sure, but that difference is less than the variability based on load. The difference in efficiency between a Gold and Platinum PSU is like 4%, but load can vary that efficiency by 10 or 15%
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TIL
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To my knowledge, PSUs are rated up to a declared power output but unless you have hardware that requires all of its power, the PSU doesn't put out the full charge.
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