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Corsair is moving away from 80 PLUS certification for PSUs, embraces Cybenetics (www.tweaktown.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Marketing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why there is A-, A, A+, and A++

There is literally no point to having the A if you aren't using the A,B,C system. It's stupid.

At that point just use stars or +,++,+++,++++, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

A- sounds a lot better than D, that's why