PSU Tier's & Rankings Ver. 2.0

[ddbtkd456]

I originally made one of these posts but then decided to deleted it since it was a repost by someone else. So the point of this topic is to refer people here so they know what kind of PSU is better then the others. I would argue that the signally most important component in your whole computer system is you power supply. Why? Simply put if your power supply is not up to pair it can end up looking like this, or shortly stated it can fry your whole pc along with every single component it is plugged into. Not to worry tho stick to this list and you'll be good to go on that part. So below are some links that might help if you want to take a look at them as well.

1. Finding the Right PSU - Credit to @Windspeed36
2. Explanation of 80 Plus Efficiency - Credit to @STRMfrmXMN
3. The Original PSU Tier Guide - Credit to @Aniallation
4. Wattage Guide to System Build - Credit to @Aniallation

So what makes an excellent power supply unit? There are a couple of different factors that go into making a quality power supply:

1. Components - The higher the quality of the components within the power supply, the more stable it will be. In turn this will be an important fact since this determines how long your power supply and your components of the computer will last overall. The lower the quality of the components within the power supply the more it will negatively impact not only your power supply, but the components its providing power to as well. Don't skimp out if it can be helped.
2. Stability - The more stable a power supply is the more efficiently it will run. This is determined by ripples caused when a power supply is pushed in both wattage and amps. The less ripples it has when stressed the more stable it is, a poorly stable power supply will shut down when stressed and should be avoided at all costs. These unstable power supplies are a danger to not only your components, but also to the builder.
3. Efficiency - The more efficient the power supply is the more money you will save, the link above will describe it more in depth.
4. Safety - This is probably one of the most important things when it comes to judging a power supply. The safety is determined by making sure the power supply does not short circuit or cause unnecessary or serious harm to the components it is powering. Be sure to take notice of the over-temperature protection and make sure it is capable of having the correct safety switched that you are looking for. Stay away fom those power supplies that don't have any safety switches as this will not just ultimately affect you, but maybe the others around you.

As stated before all the power supplies before is based on professional unbiased reviews. If you don't see your power supply below or its not listed, then it may be discontinued.

 

Credit to: @dottorrent at Tom's Hardware for the original post.

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Tier One:
The highest quality and most stable Power Supply Units available. Protected by industrial grade protection circuitry and can output wattage at a rated maximum temperature of 50°C or below. These units are also Haswell certified, meaning they can cope with the C6 and C7 sleep states of 0.05Amps without triggering the under-current protection switch. May even go over labelled wattage and still work until it safely shuts down.

 

Antec:

High Current Pro Platinum Delta Electronics

Be Quiet:
Dark Power Pro P10 / 850w FSP (550w - 750w) / Seasonic (850w - 1200w)
Dark Power Pro P11 850w FSP

Corsair:
AX / AXi series 760w - 1200w Seasonic (AX) / Flextronics (AXi)
AX1500i Flextronics
HXi Channel Well Technology
RMi Channel Well Technology
RM1000x Channel Well Technology

Cooler Master:

V series / V series 1200w Seasonic

EVGA:
SuperNova G2 / P2 / T2 Super Flower
Supernova GS Seasonic
Supernova GQ FSP
Supernova PS Seasonic

Enermax:

DigiFanless 500w Channel Well Technology

Firepower:

Silencer MK3 1200w Super Flower

FSP:
Aurum PT FSP
Hydro G FSP

LEPA:

G1600 Enermax

Seasonic:
Platinum series Seasonic
Snow Silent 1050w Seasonic
X series / X series XM2 Seasonic

Silverstone:

Nightjar Platinum 520w Seasonic

Super Flower:
Leadex Gold / Platinum / Titanium Super Flower
Golden King Super Flower
Golden Silent / 430w Super Flower

Thermaltake:
ToughPower DPS-G RGB 1250w Channel Well Technology
Toughpower DPS-G Platinum 1050w Enhance Electronics

XFX:
Pro series Black edition Seasonic
Pro series Black edition Limited Edition 1000w Seasonic
Pro series XXX / Semi-Modular Seasonic
XTS Fanless Seasonic

 

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Tier Two:
As above, just slightly lower quality. Still safe to use and are all stable for any PC of today's standards, including Haswell C Stepping certification. Recommended for those on a fairly limited budget.

 

Andyson:
Platinum-R 850 / 1200 Andyson
Titanium N 700w Andyson

Antec:
EDGE Seasonic
Earthwatts Delta Electronics/ Earthwatts Platinum FSP
High Current Gamer Delta Electronics (Non-Modular) / Seasonic (Semi-Modular)
Truepower Classic Seasonic (Essentially a Non-Modular version of the EDGE series)

Azza:

Platinum Super Flower

Be Quiet:

Straight Power 10 FSP
 

Cooler Master:

VS Series Enhance
 

Corsair:

RM 850w Channel Well Technology
 

Cyonic:

AU-550X / 650X Seasonic
 

Enermax:

Platimax Enermax
 

EVGA:

Supernova B2 Super Flower

Firepower:
Silencer MK III 400 500 600 / 750 850 Super Flower
ZX Great Wall

Fractal Design:

Edison M Seasonic
 

High Power / Sirfa:

Astro GD Sirfa

Rosewill:
Capstone series Super Flower
Lightning series Super Flower
Quark 1000w Enhance
Silent Night 500 Watts Super Flower
Tachyon series Super Flower

Seasonic:
G series / G series V2 Seasonic
M12-II EVO (fully modular) Seasonic
S12G (Think of 2011 - 2013 Seasonic G series) Seasonic
S12-II Seasonic

SilentumPC:

Supremo M1 Gold 550w Sirfa

Silverpower:
SP 460w Fully Modular Seasonic
SP Semi-modular Seasonic

Silverstone:
Strider Gold Evolution Enhance
Strider Plus 750w 850w 1000w 600w Enhance
SFX-G / SFX-LG SX-G = Enhance / SFX-LG = High Power / Sirfa

Super Flower:

Golden Green / Modular / HX series Super Flower
 

Sentey:

Golden Steel Power 850 Watts Super Flower

Thermaltake:
Toughpower Gold 850M Enhance
Toughpower Grand 1200F High Power / Sirfa
Toughpower Grand Platinum 850w 1200w Enhance
Toughpower DPS Gold Channel Well Technology

XFX:
TS 430w / 550w-SEW Seasonic
XTR series Seasonic

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Tier Three:

Some Haswell compatible, some not (maybe unconfirmed). Still safe to use and stable, just lower quality components. Not really ideal in serious overclocking or super-high load situations, such as a Bitcoin mining rig or a high end gaming system.


Antec:

VP / VP w/P or F suffix Delta Electronics

Be Quiet:
Power zone series 650 850 750 1000 FSP
Pure Power / Pure Power CM HEC Compucase
Straight power E9 FSP

Cooler Master:
G Modular Channel Well Technology
GX II Enhance
Silent pro M2 / Gold / Platinum Enhance

Corsair:
CS Great Wall
RM Channel Well Technology (450w - 650w, 1000w) / Chicony (750w)

Deepcool:

Quanta 750w 1000w 1200w Channel Well Technology

Enermax:
naXn ADV 650 Watts Enermax
Revolution X't series Enermax
Triathlor / Triathlor FC series Enermax

EVGA:
430W / 500W HEC Compucase
500B / 600B HEC Compucase
NEXG FSP

Firepower:
Fatal1ty 2012 1000w Gold Channel Well technology
Fatal1ty 2016 750w High Power / Sirfa
ZT series High Power / Sirfa

FSP:
Aurum 92+ FSP
Aurum Gold FSP
Aurum S FSP
Aurum Xilencer FSP

Fractal Design:
Integra M series High Power / Sirfa
Newton R3 Series ATNG

InWin:
Commander III InWin / Powerman
GreenMe series InWin / Powerman

Kingwin:

Powerforce 850w High Power / Sirfa

LEPA:
G500 Enermax
Lepa G900 Enermax

NZXT:

Hale 90 V2 FSP

Rosewill:
Capstone G1200 Enhance Electronics
Fortress Series ATNG
Hercules 1600 Watts High Power / Sirfa
Hive / Hive S series High Power / Sirfa
Photon 750w High Power / Sirfa

Silverstone:
Strider Essential 400w 500w 600w High Power / Sirfa
ST300F / ST450F FSP
Strider Gold S 750W v2 High power / Sirfa
Strider Platinum 750w High power / Sirfa

Thermaltake:
London 550w Channel Well Technology
Toughpower1200M 1350M 1500M Channel Well Technology
Toughpower Gold 1200w Enhance
Toughpower XT 775M Channel Well Technology
Toughpower XT Gold series (Really confusing name, since they are rated Platinum) Channel Well Technology
Toughpower XT Platinum 1275w (Please don't confuse this one with the XT Gold line) Channel Well Technology

Xigmatek:

Maverick S 500w Andyson
Xilence Performance A series HEC Compucase
 

Zalman:

ZM-700 GSM High power / Sirfa

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Tier Four:

Built down to a low price. Not exactly the most stable units ever created. Very basic safety circuitry or even thin gauge wiring used. Not for gaming rigs or overclocking systems of any kind. Avoid unless your budget dictates your choice.

Aerocool:
GT Series 500s 700s 1050s HEC Compucase / Andyson (1050S model only)
Integrator 600w HEC Compucase
Strike-X series 800w 1100w Andyson
Templarius Imperator series Channel Well Technology ( 550W, 650W) / Andyson (750W - 1150W)

Cooler Master:

Elite II 550w (technically a 500w unit, maybe a typo from design department) Unknown OEM. Possibly HEC Compucase

Corsair:
CX / CXM Channel Well Technology
VS Channel Well Technology

EVGA:

NEXB FSP
 

Firepower:

Fatal1ty 2013 High Power / Sirfa
 

FSP:

Raider series FSP
 

InWin:

Glacier ATNG

LEPA:
MaxBron B1000M Yuelin
MX-F1 series (Trigger-happy Overcurrent protection and very poor quality capacitors) Channel Well Technology

NZXT:
Hale82N 650w FSP
Hale82 V2 700w High Power / Sirfa

Raidmax:

Cobrapower 500w (Not to be confused with Akasa's Cobra series) Andyson
 

SilentumPC:

Vero M1 600w Sama / Guangzhou AOJIE
 

Thermaltake:

Smart / Smart M Channel Well Technology (M Suffix, 550P, 650P, 750P) / HEC Compucase (430P, 530P, 630P, 730P) / High Power (1000M, 1200M)

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Tier Five (Avoid IMMEDIATELY):

 

These units are highly unsafe to use. No such protections added, very thin gauge wiring used, false advertising and too much to list. Reference to a higher tiered unit for a better, money saving and a much safer unit. For your safety's sake, please don't order or pick one up for use in your system. These units are a potential fire hazard and could even kill you, let alone your system.

A-TOP technology
Apevia
Apex (SUPERCASE/ALLIED)
Artic / Ace (They're the same company)
Aspire (Turbocase)
ATADC
ATRIX
Broadway Com Corp
CIT
Coolmax
Deer
Diablotek
Dynapower
Dynex
Eagletech
Enlight
Evo labs
EZ-cool
Foxconn
G7
HEC / Compucase Orion
HEDY (should be WAAAYYY lower down than these units. They're that bad)
iBall
iStar computer co.
Jeantec
JPac
Just PC
Linkworld electronics
Logisys computer
Macron
MSi (just stick to their GPUs and motherboards)
NMEDIAPC
Norwood Micro/ CompUSA
Okia
Powercool
Powmax
Pulsepower
Q-tec
Rocketfish
SFC
Sharkoon
Shuttle
Skyhawk
Startech
Storm
Sumvision
Tesla
Ultra

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Currently non-tiered (Awaiting Reviews):

AcBel Polytech:

iPower 90 / M90 AcBel Polytech

Aerocool:
AP / AP Pro series Andyson
CS Series (Not to be confused with Corsair's CS Series) Channel Well Technology
Integrator MOD XT HEC Compucase
Rave series Andyson
XPredator HEC Compucase

Akasa:
Venom Power 2015
Viper Power

Antec:
Earthwatts 2015 450 550 650 Delta Electronics/ 450 550 650
Digital Titanium 1250w Delta Electronics
EDGE II Seasonic
High Current Platinum GRID Delta Electronics
Neo Eco 2015 Channel Well Technology
VPF Bronze Delta Electronics

Chieftech:
A Series High power / Sirfa
A90 Series Channel Well Technology
B Series Channel Well Technology
C Series Channel Well Technology
D Series High power / Sirfa
E Series Channel Well Technology
M Series High power / Sirfa
S Series Channel Well Technology

Club3d:

CSP Gold 750 / 850w Andyson

Cooler Master:
B series v2 Channel Well Technology
Digital 1200w Titanium efficiency
GX 2015 Channel Well Technology
Master Power

Corsair:

SF600

Cougar:
GX V3 series HEC Compucase
GXD series HEC Compucase
A series V3 HEC Compucase

Cryorig:

Pi series
 

Deepcool:

Aurora Channel Well Technology

Enermax:
Digityan Channel Well Technology
MaxPro Channel Well Technology
Platimax DS series Channel Well Technology
Revolution FM series Channel Well Technology

EVGA:
600 White HEC Compucase
700 Bronze HEC Compucase

FSP:

Beserker
G.SkillRipjaws series 850w 1000w 850w 1000w
High Power / Sirfa Overclocking EVO High power / Sirfa

In Win:
Serenity series In Win / Powerman
IP-P IQ / IP-P HF TFX series In Win / Powerman
IP-P-Series GQ / GF TFX In Win / Powerman
IP-S GQ seriesIn Win / Powerman

LC Power:

Office Series Bronze

LEPA:
MaxGold 1000w
MaxPlatinum series
N series

NOX:
Hummer Bronze
Sense 500w

Raidmax:
AP Series
RX
Vampire series
Monster series Andyson
AZ Series Andyson

Rosewill:
ARC series ATNG
Glacier series Andyson
Quark series ATNG
Tokamak series Enhance Electronics
Valens series ATNG

Seasonic:
ECO 430w Seasonic
Lighting Cube series Seasonic
M12-II EVO 2015 Seasonic
Titanium series Seasonic
S12-II 2015 Seasonic

Seventeam:

PAP series Seventeam
 

SilentMaxx:

Eco-Silent Pro Super Flower

Silverstone:
Strider Essential 400w 500w Enhance
Strider Platinum 850w - 1200w Enhance
Strider Titanium High Power / Sirfa
SX-700
Zeus 2015

Thermaltake:
Tough power DPS Gold 2015 Channel Well Technology
Tough power DPS Platinum
Tough power Gold 1000M 1500M Enhance
Tough power Grand 1050F 1200F High power / Sirfa
Tough power Platinum 650w 750w 1050w Enhance
Tough power Titanium 1500w Channel Well Technology
Tough power XT Gold 1275M (Yes, it is gold, for a Platinum rated line) Channel Well Technology
TR2 Bronze series
TR2 RX Gold Yuelin
TR2 Gold series High Power / Sirfa

Thortech:

Platinum Plus High Power / Sirfa
 

Ultra:

X4 2015 High Power / Sirfa
 

Vantec:

Platinum Enhance
 

XFX:

Pro V2 450w 550w Seasonic

Xigmatek:
Maverick Andyson
Tauro M Andyson

Xilence:

Performance C

Zalman:

EBT High Power / Sirfa

 

 

[STRMfrmXMN]

Lots of good stuff! I'd format it so it takes up less of the page but it's pretty solid. 

[ddbtkd456]

2 minutes ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

Lots of good stuff! I'd format it so it takes up less of the page but it's pretty solid. 

Haha I threw your guide in there at the beginning, I read over all 4 and thought those 4 really stuck out. Nice job. Also I would like to make a table of somesort is there a way to do that?

[STRMfrmXMN]

8 minutes ago, ddbtkd456 said:

Haha I threw your guide in there at the beginning, I read over all 4 and thought those 4 really stuck out. Nice job. Also I would like to make a table of somesort is there a way to do that?

• Like this
• With the dots?

1. Numbered lists are also an option
2. But I don't think these are what you're after.

You can insert an image from a URL with a table you've created but I think that's it.

[Kobathor]

Haha! First like! 

Can I have an award? 

 

Also, good list. I'll add it to my signature tomorrow. 

[quan289]

Another one..? Whatever...

 

One thing though. Are you dottorrent?

Because this is exact copy and paste of Tomshardware 2.0 tier list. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

 

Edit: Sorry, just deleted the quote, as spoiler didn't want to work properly.

[HKZeroFive]

As @quan289 said, at least credit the author 'dottorrent' since 90% of the OP is actually his list.

[ddbtkd456]

7 minutes ago, quan289 said:

Another one..? Whatever...

 

One thing though. Are you dottorrent?

Because this is exact copy and paste of Tomshardware 2.0 tier list. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

 

Edit: Sorry, just deleted the quote, as spoiler didn't want to work properly.

Um. The actually teirs are a not a direct copy, yes I used his as a reference with my wording and different formatting of the tiers, also he wasn't the only one to post that. If you read his post carefully it was posted on April 16, when the list was made in Feb 16.

[ddbtkd456]

1 minute ago, HKZeroFive said:

As @quan289 said, at least credit the author 'dottorrent' since 90% of the OP is actually his list.

I was going to get to that, the post isn't completely done, its a rough draft.

[quan289]

44 minutes ago, ddbtkd456 said:

Um. The actually teirs are a not a direct copy, yes I used his as a reference with my wording and different formatting of the tiers, also he wasn't the only one to post that. If you read his post carefully it was posted on April 16, when the list was made in Feb 16.

Ok, you probably added 5% of work into it, but the rest is the work of Dottorrent and the community of Tomshardware. After all, most, if not all, placement of units are place in the same manner as the one you posted. For example, Dottorent would generalize the HXi and RMi series as a whole as tier one, but why only the RM1000x is listed? The RMx is based on the same platform as the RMi - minus Corsair Link, switchable single / multi-rail, and the usage of a rifle bearing fan. You did the same.

 

This is just blatant plagiarism. I mean did you even asked permission to used their work?

 

Also, it was UPDATED on February 16 - not posted. Of course, it going to be updated when new units and reviews shows up. That list had been up for over a year now.