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Re: 930~960w on 1000w psu. safe or not?
by
ben8jam
on 01/12/2017, 00:03:50 UTC
I have 850W  PSU running on full capacity for about 3 month non-stop and it works fine Smiley

If your kill-a-watt is registering 850W, then you PSU is only supplying 680 Watts if we assume 85% efficient at max power. If you bought a larger PSU, say 1000W and ran the same rig (680W draw) it would register 740W on the Kill-a-watt. So you are throwing away 100W per hour. Which is about $130 a year at .15c/kwh. Which is the cost of a 1000w psu about Smiley

If your PSU is less efficient than 85% at max, then you are wasting even more money.