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The PSU Tier List can now be found here: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1116640-psu-tier-list-40-rev-101/

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1 hour ago, nifty917 said:

evga 450gd cost 53$

whisper bwg550m cost 92$

 

is it worth to get the whisper instead of evga? what does make whisper much more expensive other than wattage and modularity?

If you don't care about noise (like I, and I think most people), go for the GD.

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2 minutes ago, LienusLateTips said:

If you don't care about noise (like I, and I think most people), go for the GD.

but thats didnt mean GD is noisy right? :P

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2 minutes ago, nifty917 said:

but thats didnt mean GD is noisy right? :P

Well, it's an EVGA... So probably noisy.
 

24 minutes ago, Stefan Payne said:

I'd not look at the EVGA at all.

They aren't anything special.

The EVGA GD uses the same FSP platform that is used in the Be Quiet Pure Power 10... Obviously lacks the BeQuiet Silent Wings fan that the pure power has, but as far as the platform goes it should be decent.

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34 minutes ago, nifty917 said:

but thats didnt mean GD is noisy right? :P

No, it means that if you're ultra-sensitive to noise like some people are, get something else. The noise level is acceptable for most people.

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1 hour ago, LienusLateTips said:

No, it means that if you're ultra-sensitive to noise like some people are, get something else. The noise level is acceptable for most people.

Could you please link the noise tests for the EVGA GD?

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28 minutes ago, Rexper said:

Could you please link the noise tests for the EVGA GD?

This is just based on other EVGA units. They're a bit louder than most... but not that loud.

 

But I could be completely wrong and the think could be a jet. Unlikely, though.

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That was among the first results in YT

 

 

I would not call it especially noisy.

Life is really challenging. I don't always suceed: )

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1 hour ago, LienusLateTips said:

This is just based on other EVGA units. They're a bit louder than most... but not that loud.

Don't judge by brand. Especially when they're using a different OEM than usual.

 

1 hour ago, Vejnemojnen said:

That was among the first results in YT

A video is useless, not results. There is no methodology or hard figures, therefore impossible to compare to other PSUs.

When I turn my headphones down that EVGA GD is pretty darn quiet ?

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2 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

i feel skipped...

ups sorry, do you own one as well? i have notice that lienus mentioned his corsair cx550m in his signature

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3 minutes ago, shazammm said:

ups sorry, do you own one as well? i have notice that lienus mentioned his corsair cx550m in his signature

i do, even the 550

 

it's a little loud, whines because i put a 1070 ti on it, but does it's job

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9 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

i do, even the 550

 

it's a little loud, whines because i put a 1070 ti on it, but does it's job

what do you think it lacks to be a tier A psu?

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Just now, shazammm said:

what do you think it lacks to be a tier A psu?

it's a dual forward, whines on anything 1070+ and older revisions used a sleeve bearing fan

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which 1 is better Super Flower Bronze or U9? (there is no SP Bronze here)

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3 hours ago, LukeSavenije said:

it's a dual forward, whines on anything 1070+ and older revisions used a sleeve bearing fan

the cx450 i was lookin at recently uses a rifle bearing

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7 minutes ago, shazammm said:

the cx450 i was lookin at recently uses a rifle bearing

yeah, cx non m uses rifle, and cxm now does too, it's just that they used to use sleeve and haven't updated their website yet.

 

both are huang han iirc

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28 minutes ago, Oalei said:

which 1 is better Super Flower Bronze or U9? (there is no SP Bronze here)

I'd say u9

 

sf bronze is decent too, but I'd give the edge to u9 because i have more info about it

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15 minutes ago, Vejnemojnen said:

That's something.

 

Zalman 850 EBT for roughly the same price as a 500w pure power 11. Though who on earth needs 850w, is a good question

It's a shame it's the 850W one, not 750W. The 850W-1200W ones use a worse platform (High Power HPJ, double forward with synchronous rectification and DC-DC) than the 550-750W EBT models. (High Power HPM platform, half bridge LLC with SR and DC-DC).

 

Of course you can only hope this list would make a distinction, lol. It just groups them all into "Zalman EBT" in one tier.

 

And there's also the fact that Rosewill Photon also uses two different (worse and better) platforms and there's no distinction either.

 

...And also how Rosewill Photon uses the exact same two platforms as Zalman EBT, but it's tier higher.

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5 hours ago, LukeSavenije said:

it's a dual forward, whines on anything 1070+ and older revisions used a sleeve bearing fan

does evga 450 gd does that too? because i never bothered by a loud fan. but im suffered when theres an old phone charger plugged in next room because i can hear the very high pitched noise while others mostly wont notice.

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1 hour ago, nifty917 said:

does evga 450 gd does that too? because i never bothered by a loud fan. but im suffered when theres an old phone charger plugged in next room because i can hear the very high pitched noise while others mostly wont notice.

i haven't heard issues with it, so it might, it might not

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3 hours ago, LukeSavenije said:

yeah, cx non m uses rifle, and cxm now does too, it's just that they used to use sleeve and haven't updated their website yet.

 

both are huang han iirc

where did you read that new versions of cxm uses rifle? i didn't find nothing on that

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1 minute ago, shazammm said:

where did you read that new versions of cxm uses rifle? i didn't find nothing on that

@jonnyGURU, the guy who designs them told me

 

huang Han doesn't sell sleeve anymore

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