PSU Overkill?

[DARKADAM]

Heres a little snippet:
Certified To Deliver 80% Efficiency Or Higher At Normal Load Conditions (20% To 100% Load)

A Single +12V Rail Provides Up To 56A Of Reliable, Continuous Power For Multi-Core Gaming Pcs With Multiple Graphics Cards.

Another plus here is that since i will only use 500watt and ill be doing only slight overclocking, the PSU fan will stay nice and quiet and , even better, Cool.

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

Modern highend rigs spend most of their time at 120-180watts idle, and 350-450 load. Get a platinum 550-650 and call it a day. Going to high wattage hurts efficiency and wastes money in the short and long term for no good reason.

 

[dj-electric]

Just... why? why spend so much money on a gold or platinum PSU in that case?
A good quality 400-450W 80+ certified PSU wont die or will get replaced as fast as other component in your PC.
my 2 cents are save your money, get something like this to get your rig going
Antec VP-450 450W ATX 12V v2.3 Power Supply
no need to go nuclear on a 180W@game system.

 

[Kreij]

A good quality 400-450W 80 certified PSU wont die or will get replaced as fast as other component in your PC.

I disagree. If you buy a PSU that is rated higher than what you need, you will replace it far less often than other components.

 

[Aquinus]

Also you could have got a 850 and had PLENTY of room to upgrade.

It was only 80 PLUS, not even bronze. It also wasn't modular. Additionally I draw over twice as much as you and have a PSU that is twice as large. The Seasonic 1000 also has a 7 year warranty. For what my rig is and what I do with it, I wanted that overhead. As you said, no one is going to draw 1kW unless you're running 4 high end video cards with everything you have overclocked and I knew that buying it. I wanted a quality power supply and I think that you can agree with me that Seasonic makes quality PSUs. Also at the time Seasonic hadn't released the 850-watt (I think it is 850,) Platinum PSU.

Clearly we're not going to see eye to eye on this, but you don't have to call it stupid because you don't agree with it. I wanted a very capable PSU that would shine under any workload and be covered under warranty way past when I would consider upgrading my rig anyways. I don't know about you, but I've had plenty of PSUs fail on me and I'm done taking that risk, and if I feel that paying that extra money for it is worth it, so be it.

Are you going to say that SB-E is e-peen too and that an ASUS P9X79 Deluxe is stupid because it costs a lot? I had a large budget and I built this rig to fit that and based it on the workloads I was going to be putting on it. I had reasons for every piece of hardware I purchased for this rig, including the PSU.

I disagree. If you buy a PSU that is rated higher than what you need, you will replace it far less often than other components.

It will also last longer if you don't stress it as hard.

 

[mauriek]

It will also last longer if you don't stress it as hard.

maybe the quality of our electricity from power company also contribute to kill a PSU? i have 4 broken PSU for the last 2 years, all the broken PSU are good brand and supposed to last longer, the last was my Seasonic 650, it run quite warm for month before it died. even my current Seasonic P860 are slight warm in my system. i use regular UPS with integrated AVR.

so Overkill? this is my most expensive PSU i can afford, i think i have no choice but to overkill to avoid changing PSU to often,

 

[Aquinus]

so Overkill? this is my most expensive PSU i can afford, i think i have no choice but to overkill to avoid changing PSU to often,

I have a UPS on mine. Occasionally it will go off (switch to battery and internal transformer,) because of voltage fluctuation, but it's usually pretty stable. This is also over the course of many years that I've lost PSUs. I haven't in the last 3 years, when I was using a Corsair GS800. Worked well but since it wasn't modular, it made for a messy wiring job.

 

[mauriek]

...it made for a messy wiring job.

So overkill is kinda different for each person need, and for some like me, we do not have much choice ( my UPS usually trigger 3-4 times/day), i bought the PSU knowing that it will be overkill when it comes to wattage but i hope not overkill in durability.

when talk about messy wiring, i use 12 HDD/SSD and 9 case fan, it was a 6 hours of fun nightmare to do the cable management the last time i change PSU and i don't want to go through that again soon, full modular is a great bonus.

Think carefully of our need and condition before decide to buy a PSU, sometime is unavoidable to be overkill.

 

[Elmo]

Sitting down and eating popcorn.