Building a gaming PC

lumberjim · 11-06-2013, 09:21 AM

Is there any reason NOT to go with a power supply that provides more than what's strictly needed? I chose the 800 on the recco of the guy at Tiger Direct. I had a power supply fail in a Dell computer once, and did not want a repeat of that experience. I may very well upgrade my rig in future. The price difference was not prohibitive as I recall. Why are we spending so much time on this? Just tw wanking about how stupid everyone else in the world is, as usual? Thought so.

tw · 11-06-2013, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

I chose the 800 on the recco of the guy at Tiger Direct. I had a power supply fail in a Dell computer once, and did not want a repeat of that experience.

That is also another popular myth. More watts means a more reliable power supply. Not true. In fact many power supplies have less stress when operating at closer to 100% power. Some technology supplies are at greatest stress when at 50% rated power.

But hearsay (and no numbers) easily convinces many that more watts mean better reliability.

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