PSU tier list 2.0

[Deleted member 217926]

Look. If everybody just bought an X series Seasonic the world would be a better place...haha

Well at least we wouldn't be arguing about this anymore...

My Seasonic Platinum 660XP2 would argue with you 😛

 

[corndog1836]

@anort3... Nice!!!!!!

 

[corndog1836]

I still like my ss1250xm tho. Two 780tis in sli overclocked to 1254mhz, 4790k at 4.7 stable 24/7, dh15 cooler,and a gazzilion led fans from 240mm down to 120mm I needed the power of a 1050 but i oversized cause of the price. 660 wouldnt have made it ....

 

[Deleted member 217926]

It's fine for my single 980 Ti setup. It was fine when I had a GTX 780 and it will still be fine when I move from my 2600K to a 6700K in a few months.

 

[corndog1836]

Yep yep yep. One of things i,like about a good psu is that you keep it from upgrade to upgrade and from build to build...

 

[Darkbreeze]

Honestly, a corndog from 1836 CAN'T still be good, can it? I personally wouldn't waste good mustard on it. Heh. JK.

 

[corndog1836]

Honestly, a corndog from 1836 CAN'T still be good, can it? I personally wouldn't waste good mustard on it. Heh. JK.

hahahahahahaahah!!!!!!!!
I love this place...

 

[Darkbreeze]

 

[Turb0Yoda]

I don't eat corn dogs with mustard... I eat em with catsup... Haters gonna Hate is the term that goes here, right?

My PSU OEM is 90% Delta, but it says HP invent on it >.>

 

[MarkW]

You said an evil name... HP... 10 min timeout in the corner!

 

[Darkbreeze]

Get out of jail free card issued for saying Delta.

 

[corndog1836]

Penalty box

 

[Turb0Yoda]

Not my fault. Blame my dad, he got it. >.> Thankfully, it has enough power for a 750 ti, so there is SOME hope.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

I missed this until now somehow. WTF Seasonic? A tier 3 unit?

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story6&reid=438

At least they didn't put their own name on it but I sure hope this isn't indicative of things to come

 

[Darkbreeze]

I trust what Oklahoma Wolf is putting in his reviews, and no offense to him or any of you who know him, less and less when I see things like this in the same review, separated by only a few lines of text. (And yes, this is from that GS unit)

Voltage regulation was strictly average on this unit, which is two notches down from excellent. That'll be a full one point deduction. To this, I will pull another half point for the 12V ripple.

Then in the bullet points he emphasizes:

The Good:
•excellent minor rail ripple control
•very good 12V ripple control
•fully modular
•likes getting warm

How can anybody take a review seriously when it contradicts itself? This is not the first, nor even one of the few times I've seen this lately in one of their reviews. Rather than tighten up the +12v regulation, maybe they should tighten up the written documentation.

That being said, I know those guys generally know their business, but the reviews need to have uniform accuracy.

 

[Onus]

Consistency in reviews is important. Hopefully there wasn't any copy-pasta being served in there.
In any case, it still looks like a tier-2 unit.
I really liked Gabriel Torres' reviews though, with more in-depth dissection and especially the overload tests.

 

[MarkW]

Well, that is very similar to what OklahomaWolf did in the Corsair CX review I linked a couple of weeks back. He talks about all these ugly issues in the scoring section, and then got to the good and bad points after that, and tried to make the crap earlier smell like roses.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I own the GS 550 , in my son's rig , very solid , stable.

They don't like it because it's based on an older Seasonic model , that's why the 550 G2 is better , newer model Super Flower.

 

[dottorrent]

I own the GS 550 , in my son's rig , very solid , stable.

They don't like it because it's based on an older Seasonic model , that's why the 550 G2 is better , newer model Super Flower.

It's pretty much the old SeaSonic G series platform. Still solid, but ageing badly.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I got it for $49.00 after rebate , killer deal , very stable great voltages.

 

[Onus]

Aging badly? How so? I've put a few G360s out there, and have had no issues.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I have the 550 GS , and although older than the G2 is super solid.

 

[dottorrent]

Aging badly? How so? I've put a few G360s out there, and have had no issues.

The platform has been around for 4 years now. Still incredibly solid these days, but not as modern as Seasonic's KM3 platform or even Super Flower's Leadex platform.

 

[Onus]

Fair enough; "ages badly" makes me think of the CWT-built units with the questionable capacitors.
My SG-650 has been surpassed in efficiency, but I still suspect it will outlive me.

 

[IntelTurtleFan]

2 kinds of aging referenced.

1. Old makes that once were purely top of the line
2. Cheaply built caps that deteriorate