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question about 80 plus gold/silver/bronze and overclocking
- Thread starter xstreetz
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There's a good article about what those ratings mean on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_PLUS
Essentially, gold/silver/bronze is a rating of the conversion efficiency of the unit. Units with higher efficiency will pull less power from the wall at a given load and in turn produce less heat. While a higher rating often says something about the overall quality of the PSU, it's essentially an efficiency badge and nothing else.
I would worry about the overall reliability of the power supply before you worry about the 80 PLUS rating. The Recommended PSUs sticky is a good place to start: http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=589708
Essentially, gold/silver/bronze is a rating of the conversion efficiency of the unit. Units with higher efficiency will pull less power from the wall at a given load and in turn produce less heat. While a higher rating often says something about the overall quality of the PSU, it's essentially an efficiency badge and nothing else.
I would worry about the overall reliability of the power supply before you worry about the 80 PLUS rating. The Recommended PSUs sticky is a good place to start: http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=589708
Zero effect on overclocking DIRECTLY. Its just efficiency like Johan said above. One can make an argument that a more efficient PSU has less ripple/noise etc, but those two certainly dont go hand in hand.
+1 to Johan's post.
+1 to Johan's post.
