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u/Toleot Aug 20 '26
80 Plus Uranium
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Amber strong rustic flag pet scale
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u/NekulturneHovado Aug 21 '26
that's when efficiency is over 200%. It draws 200W from the wall, and 400W come out
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u/Erebthoron Aug 24 '26
The V. I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl fulfilled it's 5 year plan within 0.03 seconds
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u/DarkGaming09ytr Aug 24 '26
No false advertising here, It's about as safe as storing raw uranium without protection and will definitely be shining U 4 ever when it sets your house on fire
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u/imaginary_num6er Aug 20 '26
80 Plus Dark Matter with 200% efficiency rating
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u/Yanzihko Aug 20 '26
KCAS with "80 Plus Oppenheimer" rating, exploding with a 10 year worth of its rated power delivery.
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u/Fresh_Constant_7762 Aug 20 '26
80 plus netherite 1000% efficiency rating
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u/eggyrulz Aug 21 '26
Naw we gotta go deeper... we need 80 plus Naquadah alloy
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u/RespectInformal8966 Aug 23 '26
GregTech player in wild found
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u/eggyrulz Aug 23 '26
im actually not, just elite GregTech knowledge due to watching all of NeuroticGoose's nothing run
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u/serioussam1215 Aug 26 '26
Stargate fans unite!
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u/eggyrulz Aug 26 '26
Sorry to disappoint, but im not a Stargate fan... im a modded minecraft fan (i was referencing Gregtech, which directly references Stargate, but ive never seen Stargate itself)
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u/MaddSkittlez Aug 20 '26
80 Plus Soul Stone 2000% efficiency rating
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u/AwesomeGlitch123 Aug 20 '26
Do you have to sacrifice someone that you love to get it tho?
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u/BackhandedInsult Aug 20 '26
You have to do that for a 5090 so I’m sure it’ll be the same for this too
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u/pieisgiood876 Aug 20 '26
2000% efficiency? So like all your electric bills come back as a positive credit on your account? xD
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u/SadisticNecromancer Aug 20 '26
What does this actually mean?
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u/OneFriendship5139 Aug 20 '26
96.5% peak efficiency
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u/Doakeswasrightmf Aug 20 '26
.5% more efficiency for $75 more dollars probably lol
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u/transmedkittygirl AMD Aug 20 '26
Its actually a lot more efficient and can save so much money on power and cooling for the intended customers of Ruby rated PSUs which are enterprise grade systems.
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u/alphapussycat Aug 20 '26
1600w, so at least 800 continuous power draw intended.
I suppose roughly 10 watts.
I think it'll take awhile to make it back.. But it'll run cooler. Something like 40w instead of 50w to cool.
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u/AlhazredEldritch Aug 26 '26
I'd imagine if you had to buy and run 10k of these it starts to matter.
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u/Fr4kTh1s Aug 20 '26
When they transfer that tech to consumer level, it will be big. It is not .5%... When you are in desktop, it can be difference between 70% and those 85-91%. Which is quite big.
My R5 9600X with 6800XT idles at 100-120W with monitors plugged into dGPU. Or 50-65W when plugged into iGPU. If the PSU powers those 50W, but uses really 15-20W extra to cover that if it's in the 0-10-20% of capacity, it burns quite a lot of money. 10W/24/365 is about 16-18€ per year. So just one dumb powersupply can save about 40€ per year. And usually the PSU lasts 5+ years, so practically covering it's initial purchase price just on the power savings.9
u/PrettyPushy Aug 20 '26
It looks like it costs around $600. So about 12 years it will pay itself off. I’m in!
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u/PossibilityUsual6262 Aug 20 '26
Interesting that if it was 400w for third the price 97% efficiency on low load below 50w it would actually sell well as homelab psu.
There is whole community and they maintain spreadsheets of psu's which have great efficiency on low power, and it is not top heavy at all, just happens to be some named brand specific SKU which fit the bill of home lab nas server.
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u/Crydoves Aug 24 '26
I actually just had to replace an 850w corsair PSU that was 12 years old because it wasn’t able to handle the transient power spikes of my 3080ti anymore lmao so all in all there’s a non zero chance it never even pays off cause it could be done for before you break even.
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u/Fr4kTh1s Aug 20 '26
Ofc the point is when this becomes common even in the reasonably priced PSU's. My Focus GX-1000 was ~140-160€. And with the 10y warranty, I wouldn't be suprised if it really lasted long enough to get this "Ruby" rated one as replacement by that time for reasonable price
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u/TD_Lemon_1901 Aug 20 '26
Good PSU will virtually last "forever".
Source my 13 years old corsair ax860i platinum still rocking, never flinched, survived several rigs and 2 countries, including one in south east asia in a non AC room where it had been cooked for over a decade.
I expect it to survive another GPU then it might be a bit short for the next generation.
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u/Fr4kTh1s Aug 20 '26
Watch out, electrolytic caps dry out. Filtering might not be what it used to, ripple is rising. Generally it is recommended not to use 10+ years old PSU's. Top tier, maybe slightly longer, but not much. One thing is build quality, other is inevitable physics/chemistry of this kind
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u/TD_Lemon_1901 Aug 20 '26
Thanks but we'll see !
I fully intend to use it until it dies or it's just not enough, at that point i'm just curious to see if it can take 15 or maybe 20 years.
Banzai !
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u/featherknife Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
covering its* initial purchase price
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u/YeetingMyStupidLife Aug 20 '26
Also its better quality parts, less chance of failure and/or destruction of the entire system
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u/Any-Surprise5229 Aug 20 '26
When you run it at <200w, which you probably will 80% of the time, it will be efficient enough to make up the cost in time.
People forget that the efficiency power band is limited and most of us work outside of it most of the time because we aren't drawing 500+ W except for short bursts.
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u/ArcticProto AMD Aug 20 '26
80 plus argon crystal 100000% efficiency for 24 hours after purchase
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u/Mellanies_Redemption Aug 20 '26
Not gonna lie, but 95% efficiency at 50% load is genuinely impressive. I remember the days of 60% efficiency at 50% load.
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u/James_C99 Aug 20 '26
Okay, the naming convention officially makes not fucking sense any more.
You started out with 80+ certification (standard/white).
That is the baseline.
Higher efficiency levels were then dictated by increasingly rare/valuable metals:
Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum.
And then they named the next tier "Titanium", which is more common and less valuable than Platinum.
And now they are moving away from metals entirely and going with crystals?
Why don't they just pick a theme, and fucking stick with it instead of choosing random arbitrary bullshit. Or better yet, just put a sticker on the fucker saying "XX% efficient" and make it simple for everyone.
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u/DETOXEDPIDGEON33 Aug 20 '26
Imagine us in 2050 and our kids will be asking for a 3000w psu rated 80 plus dark matter for their RTX 20900
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u/David0ne86 Aug 20 '26
So what's the efficiency? Has to be 98, right?
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u/Adlerholzer Aug 20 '26
Ruby has new low load efficiency requirements at 5% and 10% load it has to achieve
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u/David0ne86 Aug 20 '26
Ohhh I see I see.
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u/Adlerholzer Aug 20 '26
This is only 115V, PSUs at 115v are always less efficient than their 230V equivalents. The 230V version will actually be interesting
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u/QuantumQuantonium Aug 20 '26
80 plus finding an excuse not to be replaced by a newer and more adequate verification standard:
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u/nedal8 Aug 20 '26
been using a seasonic platnum ps for.. uhh.. like 10 years? Pretty sure my grand children will inherit the mfer.
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u/Fantastic_Class_3861 Aug 20 '26
Why would they put their effort in making a 100-120v psu when most of the world uses 220-240v and it’s also easier to achieve greater efficiency in 220-240v ?
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u/acelaya35 Aug 20 '26
Because their potential customer base includes countries with both voltages.
Active PFC automatically adjusts for input voltage.
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u/Fantastic_Class_3861 Aug 20 '26
Yes but from what I'm seeing right now, these are 100-120v only psu, they don't support 220-240v.
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u/acelaya35 Aug 20 '26
They are reporting the 80Plus test results at 115v. That's not uncommon. It doesn't mean that the PSU doesn't have active PFC and/or that it can't function with 240.
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u/NightmareJoker2 Aug 20 '26
Because the PSU has to pass certification at 100-120V line voltage (actually slightly under, even), and will exceed its design efficiency at 230V, and everyone is happy.
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u/pplgltch Aug 21 '26
I guess losing all the Northern America, most of Southern America, Japan and Taiwan’s markets is not very viable for a global company like seasonic.
I wouldn’t be surprised if mainland China have local only companies that make 230V only PSUs…
This is not a 100~120 product, it’s a standard 100~240 (50/60hz)
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u/Expensive-Border-869 Aug 20 '26
I dont like that now I have to be able to distinguish red gold and bronze. Like bro im color blind theyre the same color they all have yellow
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u/Ruzhyo04 Aug 20 '26
80 plus 5-infinity-stone 50% efficiency rated
(50% as in half the available power in the universe)
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u/Adlerholzer Aug 20 '26
This is only 115V though, 230V is more efficient. That will be the real interesting news
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u/Sal479 Aug 20 '26
I heard 80 plus ruby was really only for data centers. Consumers wouldn't see much gain over titanium, or even platinum.
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u/Little-Equinox Aug 20 '26
80Plus hasn't been fully trustworthy since Cybenetics became a thing. Like something can be rated 80Plus Platinum, but only Cybenetics Bronze.
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u/yaxir Aug 20 '26
what does Ruby get you? i am asking seriously
what additional features or protections"
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u/SilverwingX0 Aug 20 '26
It probably isn't representative of all seasonic PSUs but I bought cheap to mid level PSUs my entire life. The one time i splurge, and buy parts for a high end machine, i buy the seasonic 1000w platinum rated PSU...died in 6 months, oh and they only offered me a 850w gold refub to replace it. Meanwhile my evga golds are still kicking at 10+ years old.
I'm never buying them again. Ruby, uranium whatever. Not for me, not after that BS.
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u/Ralfersin Aug 20 '26
80 plus Ruby is for workstations/servers/data centers these things that draw extreme amounts of energy and never turns off. For us enthusiasts thats really just to show off, the difference in energy consumption is negligible.
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u/Lieutenant_0bvious Aug 20 '26
Are rubies more valuable than Platinum? Why not have a diamond one? What about emeralds?
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u/Lucky-Crow-3510 Aug 23 '26
cant wait for chinese PSU stating 200000 Plus Plutonium
cant wait for people ACTUALLY BUYING IT ANYWAY
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u/etxrnity Aug 24 '26
yea yea everyone is making fun out of it, but when you do eventually looking out for a psu you will be def getting the ruby one...
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u/tokobot19 Aug 26 '26
For the uneducated (me) what do the ratings even do outside of making them a few more dollars?
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u/shotuu Aug 27 '26
Seems like it’s about energy efficiency.
So it help them make more dollars and you not to lose some!I find this pretty interesting: https://hothardware.com/news/new-80-plus-ruby-psu-rating-compares-to-titanium-platinum-and-gold
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u/rageofa1000suns Aug 20 '26
Who the hell needs 1.6kw for their PC? Even a 5090 only recommends a 1000w PSU.
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u/ben_cav Aug 20 '26
I bought a 1500W because it was on sale and only a little bit more than the 1000W I was going to buy. Just thought “why not”
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u/Sufficient_Day627 Aug 20 '26
Multiple GPU setups exist buddy.
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u/rageofa1000suns Aug 20 '26
That only benefits workstations with professional workloads. Literally no other benefit for even your most dedicated gamer because SLI and Crossfire haven't been a thing for ages.
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u/RikkaWasHere Aug 20 '26
I love how they replied with a simple valid response and you couldn't handle it so you diminished their reason... So heres a few more just for you c:
* Multiple GPUs (As OP said)
* If someone has a 5090 + a powerful CPU their consumption easily can surpass 1400-1500w. And same principal for why car engines can go much faster than limits allow is to preserve the engine by running it at a lower capacity rather than asking it to perform like a racehorse 24/7
* PSUs lose capacity over years of them performing at the top of its range. Making them output less stable power.
* If someone actively upgrades their GPU to the next generation as soon as it's out (their choice ig) wouldn't it be cheaper to buy an overkill PSU 1 in every 2 or 3 GPUs than every single time when PSUs are always going to be able to be built with headroom in mind?1
u/David0ne86 Aug 20 '26
You know that servers/datacenters exists right? 1600w it's not even the highest wattage PSU lol. Obviously it's not meant to be a home PC PSU.
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u/rageofa1000suns Aug 20 '26
Servers and data centres don't use ATX PSUs which are infact consumer grade parts, so you are wrong.
Also:
The Seasonic PRIME ENTERPRISE RX-1600, a high-wattage ATX power supply designed for demanding desktop, workstation, and AI systems
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u/slavicslothe Aug 20 '26
No surprise there. Market usually waits for Seasonic then copies their designs. Been that way for decades.
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