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Board CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
Re: My PSU just had a catastrophic failure (i.e. exploded)
by
dserrano5
on 03/11/2012, 18:28:33 UTC
I think you meant either 16% above its capacity, or 785W instead of 875:

No, I do not mean that; I specifically stated that 875 was wall-draw. There is a difference between power drawn from the wall, and power delivered to the components of your computer, and PSUs are rated for power delivered to components. A gold rated PSU will run at roughly 87%-90% efficiency (depending on the one you purchase) at > 75% load. I believe the one I had, being one of the most superior models on market, was running close to 89% or so (don't recall where I got that now, so I will take it on faith) -

.89 * 875 * 100 / 750 = 103.833333; or roughly 104% give or take.

Ah, thanks for that. I'm not a hardware junkie Wink.