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Power Supply Unit - Rated By Tier - Buzzsaw - 02-05-2017
Latest Power Supply Unit Tier Listing.
This list goes from Tier 1 (the best) down to Tier 7 (the worst).
Use this as a guide to assist you in selecting the right power supply unit for your computer build.
Tier 1
- Antec - High Current Pro, High Current Platinum
- be Quiet! - Dark Power Pro P10, Dark Power Pro 11
- Corsair - AX, AXi, HXi, RMi, RMx, SF, Vengeance
- Enermax - Platimax
- EVGA - G2, G3, P2, PS, T2, 1000G1, 850W and above GS
- FSP - Aurum PT
- LEPA - G1600
- NZXT Hale90V2
- Seasonic - X, Platinum, Snow Silent, all Fanless units, Prime
- Sentey - Platinum Power, Golden Steel Power
- Silverstone - Nightjar
- Super Flower - Leadex
- Thermaltake - 1250D-T RGB
- XFX - Pro Gold, Pro Black, XTS
- Antec - EDGE, TruePower Classic
- Azza - Platinum
- Cooler Master - V-series (fully modular), VSM-series (semi-modular), Masterwatt Maker (it's way too expensive at 450 USD but it's worthy of being tier 2)
- Corsair - Most RM variants, HX
- Enermax - Digifanless, RG, GX
- EVGA - GQ, B2, 550W and 650W GS
- Fractal Design - Edison M, Tesla R2 650W/1000W, Tesla R3
- FSP - Hydro G
- Gigabyte - XP1200M
- Rosewill - Quark, Fortress, Capstone
- Seasonic - S12G, G-series/SSRM
- Sentey - Solid Power SS
- Silverstone - SX-700 SFX
- Super Flower - Golden Green
- Thermaltake - Toughpower Grand, Toughpower Grand Platinum, Toughpower DPS Platinum, EVO 2.0
- XFX - Pro XXX, XTR, TS Gold
- Antec - High Current Gamer, Neo ECO
- be Quiet! - Straight Power E10
- Bitfenix - Fury
- Corsair - "Grey unit" CXM, CSM, some RM variants
- Deepcool - DQ-ST
- Fractal - Tesla R2, Integra M
- Lian Li - SFX-L
- LEPA - G600
- OCZ - ZX
- PC Power & Cooling - Silencer Mk III, Turbo Cool
- Rosewill - Lightning, Silent Night, Tachyon, Photon
- Seasonic - M12II, M12II EVO, S12II
- Silverstone - Gold Evolution, Strider Gold
- Thermaltake - DPS Gold/RGB, London, BlueEvo 2.0
- XFX - Core, ProSeries Bronze, TS Bronze
- Zalman - EBT
- Antec - EarthWatts/EA Green, Earthwatts Platinum
- be Quiet! - Power Zone, Pure Power L9, Straight Power E9, Pure Power L8
- Corsair - Old CXM "Green unit" variants, Rev. 3 "Green unit" variants
- Cooler Master - GM, GX Storm
- Cougar - LX
- Enermax - Revolution X't
- EVGA - 600B/700B (don't buy the 700B, I don't understand why it exists), NEX-series gold-rated units, BQ
- Fractal Design - Tesla R2 500W
- FSP - Aurum Pro, Aurum
- Inwin - Classic Series
- Rosewill - Capstone G
- Silverstone - Strider Plus, Gold SFX
- Thermaltake - Toughpower Gold, Paris
- XFX - XT
- Antec - Basiq VP-F, Basiq BP
- Corsair - Rev. 2 CX "Green unit" variants
- Enermax - NaXn 82+
- EVGA - 450B/500B, NEX-B
- OCZ - ZT, ModXStream
- Silverstone - Bronze SFX
- Antec - Basiq VP
- Cooler Master - B2
- Corsair - VS
- EVGA - 430W/500W/600W 80 PLUS units
- FSP - Raider Silver
- Fractal Design - Integra R2
- NZXT - Hale82 V2
- OCZ - Fatal1ty
- Rosewill - Hive, ARC (M)
- Silverstone - Strider Essential
- Thermaltake - LitePower, ToughPower, Smart series
- Zalman - GS/GT
- Cooler Master - Elite series
- EVGA - 400W non-80 PLUS certified
- FSP - Hexa
- Thermaltake - TR2
- These are all crap