• Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM
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    3 months ago

    Seems like a better rating system overall, you get a new parameter (noise) and the efficiency ratings are more granular.

    That being said the devil is in the details.

    Corsair’s comparison image shows the 80 Plus methodology giving their top end PSU a “Gold” rating, while the new methodology has it at “Platinum”.

    Would be interesting to see deep dive into why this is the case.

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        3 months ago

        You’re most probably right, but I was hoping there would be a reasonable explanation.

        I do like that the new methodology has both effeciency and noise; that’s genuinely helpful for PSU selection.

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      3 months ago

      Corsair’s comparison image shows the 80 Plus methodology giving their top end PSU a “Gold” rating, while the new methodology has it at “Platinum”.

      The PSUs to the right are small form factor, not necessarily the top end.

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        3 months ago

        The image was in low resolution, so maybe I did get it wrong, but I was talking about the leftmost PSU in the comparison chart.