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PSU Tier List

Taken from http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html on 2016-03-22

This list looks at the main and critical sectors of a Power Supply Unit -

Components - Higher quality components means more stable functionality, thus longer life on power supply and

components of PC. Low quality components can affect the life of the unit and all components of your PC.

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. A power supply that can't must be avoided.

Efficiency - 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. Perform research on your desired PSU to see if it can

reach its labelled efficiency rating. Link above for more information.

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 critical research on your desired PSU to make sure it is safe to use with all safety

switches, such as over-temperature protection included. Stay away from units with close to no safety switches at all, for

the safety of you and others around you.

All PSUs will be colored in co-ordination of the Ecova 80+ efficiency ratings (true efficiency only) below -

Standard

Bronze

Silver

Gold

Platinum

Titanium

Again, all PSUs are researched by reading professional, unbiased reviews with the correct testing equipment. Some units

won't be returning, due to discontinuation and / or too old.

A PSU cleanup is scheduled for Summer - Fall 2016

List updated - February 16th 2016

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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.

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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

EVGASuperNova 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

FSPAurum 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


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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 AndysonTitanium 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 FSPCooler 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


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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


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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


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G500 Enermax

Lepa G900 Enermax

NZXT Hale 90 V2 FSP

Rosewill

Capstone G1200 Enhance Electronics

Fortress Series ATNGHercules 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

XigmatekMaverick S 500w Andyson

Xilence Performance A series HEC CompucaseZalman/b] 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


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Corsair

CX / CXM Channel Well Technology

VS Channel Well Technology

EVGA NEXB FSP

Firepower Fatal1ty 2013 High Power / Sirfa

FSP Raider series FSPInWin 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, falseadvertising 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


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Dynex

Eagletech

Enlight

Evo labs

EZ-cool

Foxconn

G7

HEC / Compucase OrionHEDY (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

SharkoonShuttle

Skyhawk

Startech

Storm

Sumvision

Tesla

Ultra

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Currently un-tiered - Announced PSUs and / or currently awaiting to be reviewed by professionals.

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


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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 / SirfaA90 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


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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


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M12-II EVO 2015 Seasonic

Titanium series Seasonic

S12-II 2015 Seasonic

Seventeam PAP series Seventeam

SilentMaxx Eco-Silent Pro Super Flower

SilverstoneStrider 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 EnhanceTough 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 / SirfaVantec Platinum Enhance

XFXPro V2 450w 550w Seasonic

Xigmatek

Maverick Andyson

Tauro M Andyson

Xilence Performance C

Zalman EBT High Power / Sirfa

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