I found this site from Corsair regarding PSU’s power efficiency.
To make long story short, PSU to the right (Platinum) is much better efficiency than other ones. More efficiency = less energy use = less heat = less noise = less electricity.
SeaSonic
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I had interesting experience with this PSU over last night. It actually began 2~3 days ago. I noticed that PSU started to make some kind of static noise intermittently. I didn’t find out what was causing it until last night.
So, it began when I saw VNC(remote monitoring program) showing some weird numbers on RPM of GPUs and low temperature. I began to suspect that it might be pool server down, which did occur earlier that day. I went to the rig and turned on the monitor. Tah~dah~ it was on BIOS mode!? What the… I checked the SATA cables and restarted. The rig ran fine for 20~30 mins and shut off again!
The rig ran fine for last 3~4 days and what is going on?!
I restarted several times due to same incidences over hours. I tried figure out but I was too tired so I slept at 5 AM. =.=;;
Next morning… I mean.. the same morning, I got up at 8 and called SeaSonic, which happened to be about 40 mins away, for exchange. So, I drove there and picked up new one and came back. Installed again and started up. All seemed fine and it shuts off again!
Now I notice that whenever I click on something while the rig is hashing, I began to hear click noise as I click on the screen. Ha! So… my conclusion is that SeaSonic isn’t stable unit unlike what CryptoBadger indicated. Very high cost unit compare to Antec and Coolmax yet not stable on full blast on mining. I am considering to return and go with 1200W Antec or new company called Shark (costs around $100 for 1200W). I don’t blame CrytoBadger for this. It’s just that I should have done more research. Also, he should have done more research before posting where a lot of people follow his design to start LTC mining.
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