Aastii
VIP Member
the only reason for ever getting a massive PSU is if you have 2 processors and 6 sticks of DDR3 RAM and 4 295GTX graphics cards and a ton of HDD and a ton of DVD drives, blu ray drives, cd drives, card readers and RW drives...but in all seriousness who has that?
I'm on an 850W PSU because i got it for the price of a 500W one because it was B-grade, it didn't have "sufficient packageing"...basically it came in a brown box with bubble wrap with everything still in it unopened instead of everything in a box which says corsair on it unopened...it's silly.
So stupidly powerful (or power hungry) computer or great offer is the only reason to actually get a huge PSU.
Also, remember that alot of people who buy power supplies are system builders, so therefore never buy a full new computer, they just continuously upgrade what they have. If you do that you aren't going to buy a borderline PSU just to then have to buy a slightly larger one when you upgrade something in your rig or add something, you are going to buy one over what you need so you have upgradeing capabilities. That and if you have a PSU that is at 80-90% usage it isn't going to last as long as one under 70% useage because it will start to show the strain
I'm on an 850W PSU because i got it for the price of a 500W one because it was B-grade, it didn't have "sufficient packageing"...basically it came in a brown box with bubble wrap with everything still in it unopened instead of everything in a box which says corsair on it unopened...it's silly.
So stupidly powerful (or power hungry) computer or great offer is the only reason to actually get a huge PSU.
Also, remember that alot of people who buy power supplies are system builders, so therefore never buy a full new computer, they just continuously upgrade what they have. If you do that you aren't going to buy a borderline PSU just to then have to buy a slightly larger one when you upgrade something in your rig or add something, you are going to buy one over what you need so you have upgradeing capabilities. That and if you have a PSU that is at 80-90% usage it isn't going to last as long as one under 70% useage because it will start to show the strain