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Re: Running Corsair 1200 & 1000 watt psu's near max capacity. Safe?
by
philipma1957
on 23/03/2018, 22:34:41 UTC
Corsair no, not safe to keep running near max.
I have had EVGA 1300 units running @ close to 92% rated for years now with no issues.

Corsair I will not run above 75%. Just have not had good luck with them in PCs or in mining.

I would not take this as gospel by any means. Corsair is a quality company, IMO; what sort of information are you working with besides anecdotal experiences to come to that conclusion? I can understand having a personal preference, but this seems misleading in the worst way.

You are overdue for a failure with your EVGA with the way you run it and I hope you don't then assume EVGA is a bad company, too. I wouldn't run anything above 75%, because I like some equipment to last and I treat it with some respect.

they all break when pushed hard.

Evga 1600 p2 melted running an s-9 doing 1350 watts 24/7/365 last 2 years 9 months

Seasonics
1200 plat
1000 plat   melted

Evga 750 t2 died

Rosewill 1500 watt tokamak    running at 1250  for 2 1500s
rosewill  1200 watt tokamak    all popped caps with a boom  running at 1000 for the 1200

fractal  1000 watt plat  90 days dead running at 800 watts all 3 of them

I have yet to kill about 15 corsairs but I have since learned and run them more gentle.