I think it can power a 12100f and rtx 3050. The amperage it gives from 12v is nice.
A 3050 - even a factory OC'd one -
consumes ~160W in torture tests. A 12100F
system (not just the CPU)
consumes ~120W, or ~190 if bclk OC'd. So, this PSU has 100W to spare even with both of those parts pushed quite far, under torture workloads - and gaming workloads are much, much lighter than this, with that combination of hardware likely staying closer to 200W than 300w in gaming. (Also remember that those "full system" power draw numbers include PSU losses, so actual DC loads are ~10% lower). And, crucially, lower end GPUs don't tend to have the same spiky power profiles as their higher end siblings. This PSU can easily power a regular Ryzen 5/i5+ mid-range ~200W GPU build. Easily. Most people don't use their PCs for Prime95+FurMark, but for games and applications that don't put 100% load on all components at the same time.
I have already implemented the new ATX 3.0 transient tests, but I can only conduct them on compatible PSUs.
Honestly, I would like to see those tests on non-compatible PSUs too, or at least something resembling such loads. Testing if a product actually meets a spec is one thing, testing for real-world performance comparisons across generations is another, and I'd say the latter is just as valuable as the former. I'd be really, really interested in seeing transient power sweep tests on non-ATX 3.0 PSUs, something like 70-80% load + transient loads of increasing magnitude until the PSU shuts down or voltage drops below what is acceptable. It'll take quite a while for ATX 3.0 to permeate the market, and this would be a very useful test for figuring out which PSUs are best able to handle spiky GPUs regardless of this spec. I've seen 850W PSUs struggle to power an RTX 3080, and 600W PSUs powering a 3090 just fine, so there's definitely a lot of variability here.
Here's an idea: maybe do a "pre-ATX 3.0 transient handling roundup" where you run transient power sweep tests like what I outlined above (but no other tests) on whatever PSUs you have available? That would lay some important and really useful groundwork for gauging the actual gains from the ATX 3.0 spec being implemented, while keeping the workload ... well, maybe manageable?