Wrong. Crappy PSU would not feed your shiny GPU properly with electricity.
During spikes this might even burn the System and in long term it reduces the longevity of the components especially on the GPU. Those measurements are true only if you count perfect laboratory conditions without external heat, bad electricity network and without peaks also Overcloaking is not included.
If your PSU works at 40° C continuously for months instead of lets say the "ideal" 20°C you cannot expect that it would work with the same efficiency.
Also going after qualitative PSU is must. Does not look at the After-Market Label or at the bronze/gold/platinum labelling much but look deeper who manufactured it.
I suggest reading this article: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/powe...,2913.html
The spikes and the OC and the lack of ideal conditions brings the said 20% extra power as a rule of thumb. I personally run 10 years old Fortron PSU branded as 600 W OCZ something even if it is 670 W when I done the measurements. I changed the fan few years ago after it died, other then that I changed like 5 systems since I bought it and I guess it could hold a few more years.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
