is bronze safe ?

[Mr.Sir]

i have a 750b (about a year old), I'm going to upgrade my gpu/cpu, should I be worried about the bronze rating or am i retarded?

[BrinkGG]

Just now, Mr.Sir said:

i have a 750b (about a year old), I'm going to upgrade my gpu/cpu, should I be worried about the bronze rating or am i retarded?

No you should be fine. 

[Crunchy Dragon]

You'll do fine.

[Jurrunio]

80+ Bronze doesnt tell the quality of parts. evga 750b right? It's fine.

[LienusLateTips]

It's likely fine, but I'd still replace it.

 

The 750 B/NEX is a pretty old and terrible unit, worse than the others in the B series AFAIK.

[Mr.Sir]

2 minutes ago, JDE said:

It's likely fine, but I'd still replace it.

 

The 750 B/NEX is a pretty old and terrible unit, worse than the others in the B series AFAIK.

I was leaning towards a seasonic 550px

[LienusLateTips]

1 minute ago, Mr.Sir said:

I was leaning towards a seasonic 550px

A MasterWatt 550 would be good enough.

[WoodenMarker]

28 minutes ago, Mr.Sir said:

should I be worried about the bronze rating or am i retarded?

 

The rating explains the efficiency of the psu and not the quality. A psu with higher efficiency will waste less power when converting ac from the wall to dc. What cpu and gpu are you upgrading to? Are you oc'ing?

[Mr.Sir]

2 minutes ago, WoodenMarker said:

 

 

What cpu and gpu are you upgrading to? Are you oc'ing?

rx 600 series maybe and 2600K i will overclock the cpu possibly a Ghz more

 

for now  i have a 650ti and a 3470s i might stay with the 3470s because boost clocks are ok for 1080p gaming (around 4Ghz)

 

[WoodenMarker]

1 minute ago, Mr.Sir said:

rx 600 series maybe and 2600K i will overclock the cpu possibly

for now  i have a 650ti and a 3470s i might stay with the 3470s because of the boost clocks

Unless you're getting the most power hungry RX 600 series card, loading a custom bios, and pushing a heavy oc, you'll be perfectly fine with your current psu. For a point of reference, your current system probably pulls ~200w under full load.

[Mr.Sir]

5 minutes ago, WoodenMarker said:

Unless you're getting the most power hungry RX 600 series card, loading a custom bios, and pushing a heavy oc, you'll be perfectly fine with your current psu. For a point of reference, your current system probably pulls ~200w under full load.

thank you

[Godlygamer23]

1 hour ago, Mr.Sir said:

i have a 750b (about a year old), I'm going to upgrade my gpu/cpu, should I be worried about the bronze rating or am i retarded?

Bronze rating deals only with efficiency and has nothing to do with how well the unit actually performs its function. So in the future, if you decide on a Bronze power supply, be reassured that as long as the unit is high quality, the Bronze rating will be completely fine.

 

Even though this is anecdotal, I have an Enermax power supply rated at Bronze running my server 24/7, and that's a unit that I bought back in 2011. Totally fine other than a fan issue. 

[Guest]

 When copper is combined with tin, the resulting alloy is called bronze.  Bronze was discovered in 3500 to 4500 B.C. and was originally an alloy of copper and arsenic, while the tin-and-copper combination took precedence about 1,000 years later. Because of its hardness, it began to replace stone in weaponry and, eventually, in cookware. The ancient Greek and Roman civilizations helped to spread the use of bronze across Europe, while China and India are well known for their bronzes, both decorative and culinary.  When using bronze, make sure they are of modern manufacture. Older items may have some quantity of lead or arsenic combined with the copper and tin. These elements could leach from the metal during use. Both lead and arsenic are cumulative poisons; that is, they can build up in your body over time and undermine your health before severe symptoms are obvious. Modern manufacturers of bronze recommend that you avoid using these items with acid. It is also recommended that you not store bronze for extended periods. Modern bronze is often coated with tin; if yours has such a coating, inspect it regularly for damage and have the coating repaired as needed.

[Stefan Payne]

10 hours ago, Mr.Sir said:

i have a 750b (about a year old), I'm going to upgrade my gpu/cpu, should I be worried about the bronze rating or am i retarded?

Efficiency Rating isn't the Problem.

It is the rest. And without knowing more about the PSU, we can't say more.

 

YOu don't mean the NEX 750B, do you? That one is based on an ancient FSP Plattform that was introduced around 2006 or even 5. And was shit even then...

 

Then again, the efficiency doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the quality. It is easier to make a good quality 80plus white or Bronze unit because you don't have to care about efficiency, you just to it as good as you can.

Sadly such units don't sell very well these days, so they aren't made for consumers no more...

For Servers/Workstation and especially Medical Stuff those are probably still around.

 

As for the Efficiency: One of the best units at the time had a rather shitty efficiency - even for the time!

One of those units was the Silverstone Zeus 750 and 850W.

Those were dual PCB units where the PFC section (and AFAIK also the +5VSB) was on a seperate PCB, so this had two...