

Safety - A power supply must be capable of working without short circuiting or causing any serious harm to you or others around you if it fails. Perform research on your desired PSU to see if it can reach its labelled efficiency rating.

A power supply that can't must be avoided.Įfficiency - Although not really relevant to the quality or the stability of any power supply, but it can contribute to saving money on energy bills and can even be close to virtually silent.
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Stability - A power supply that can output it's wattage and ampere current at a stable temperature and beyond or below capable with minimal ripple and without shutting down shows that the unit is more than capable of powering any PC within it's labelled wattage. Low quality components can affect the life of the unit and all components of your PC. This list looks at the main and critical sectors of a Power Supply Unit -Ĭomponents - Higher quality components means more stable functionality, thus longer life on power supply and components of PC. Here are some useful links you may want to use whilst viewing this list -Ī high quality and stable PSU (Courtesy of JonnyGuru)Ī poor quality PSU (Courtesy of JonnyGuru) The new tier list has all the current features of the old list, along with new ones, such as platform OEM and 80+ efficiency color coding. This is the new Power Supply Tier List for Tom's Hardware. Last response: less than a minute ago in Components Share
