The criticism regarding transient response is flawed in that it is not tested the way that people are actually going to use the things, ie with the caps in place.
Sorry, you have no idea what you're talking about here.
they use toms own reviews about the G3 series as their reasoning while simultaneously ignoring toms still recommendation for it IN THOSE SAME REVIEWS.
Did you actually read the review ? Here's the bit about that issue :
In our opinion, this PSU's over-power protection is set too high; it should kick in at around 120-125% of the maximum-rated capacity to keep the +12V rail within spec.
and also flat-out ignore jonnyguru reviews for it as well. while simultaneously using jonny's reviews for recommending other power supplies.
OklahomaWolf doesn't test performance past 100% rated load, there's nothing to ignore in this case.
In my opinion (and Aris's too) PSU should stay in spec under any operating conditions. I.e if it doesn't shut down it should stay in spec. But i agree that this is unlikely to happen under normal operating conditions most users would use it with. If we consider only sub 110% load operation it indeed looks like decent PSU, but if you actually read other Aris reviews you'll see that vast majority of even budget PSUs don't have the same issue as EVGA G3. It's also entirely possible that SF have already fixed that in newer revisions but EVGA doesn't work with SF anymore all this thing about G3 are really pointless, you're not gonna buy it.
he doesn't like single rails and telling people single rails will blow up on them if you use them in units past 600 watts or so.
I would've asked you for a quote but you wouldn't be able to provide it, Luke didn't say that. What he did say is that due to very high OCP triggering point on high-wattage single-rail PSUs there's non trivial chance that smth that triggers a short on 12V rail would disintegrate way before OCP would be able to shut it down, potentially resulting in fire and damage to other components. With multi-rail PSUs which have way lower OCP trigger points it's less likely to happen. That's the whole point OCP in fact, and multi-rail compliments it by splitting the load on multiple rails resulting in lower trigger points.
sorry for my rant but linus power supply tier has been the worse thing to come about in the community.
Sorry for necropost but this is pure
<Mod Edit>. If you don't like the opinion put into that tier list then just ignore it. It's not possible to make a tier list without any opinions at all.
Or if you do actually want to improve it - just go there and suggest your improvements. No need to run around tripping over calling that tier list and it's maintainers dumb, it's community project, you're calling community dumb.
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