The EPA version is energy star compliant.

If that's not listed then its not energy start compliant.

ENERGY STAR Most Efficient Program can be found on the EPA website.

 

80 Plus is a voluntary certification program intended to promote efficient energy use in computer power supply units (PSUs). Launched in 2004 by Ecos Consulting, it certifies products that have more than 80% energy efficiency at 20%, 50% and 100% of rated load, and a power factor of 0.9 or greater at 100% load. This is not Energy Star nor is it on the EPA website.

80 Plus test type 115V

80 Plus		80%	80%	80%
80 Plus Bronze		82%	85%	82%
80 Plus Silver		85%	88%	85%
80 Plus Gold		87%	90%	87%
80 Plus Platinum		90%	92%	89%
80 Plus Titanium	90%	92%	94%	90%

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@Kushdraggerwrote:
Can someone help please.
850W EPA Bronze PSU Liquid Cooled Chassis vs
850 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply with High Performance Liquid Cooling

Are these the same?. I upgraded from stock to 850 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply with High Performance Liquid Cooling but when I got the spec sheet it said 850W EPA Bronze PSU Liquid Cooled Chassis. Bronze doesn't seem like an upgrade at all can someone help asap thanks.

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It's the difference between the sales-webpage and the bin-list/pick-list ... same thing.

You upgraded from the 460w to the 850w ... smart-move. :Yes:

Nothing wrong with a 80-Bronze SMPS (at least it has a certification). Also, the Dell 850w PS also goes into the Area-51's and some Precision Workstations.

Thank your for your reply! I dont know much about these things. I upgraded afew things off the Aroura R7 an it through me off big time seeing that change. So the bronze is still good? I wonder why they didnt offer a silver gold or platinum upgrade for it or are they not too much more different from the upgrade I chosen? I just know they are better conductors..

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@Kushdraggerwrote:
So the bronze is still good? 

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Yes.

My take on it is that it's more about how efficient the SMPS is ... not necessarily the quality or dependability. You should probably Google it if you want more info.

You pay Quite a bit more  for a few percent Efficiency.

80 Plus Bronze        82%
80 Plus Silver          85%
80 Plus Gold           87%
80 Plus Platinum    90%
80 Plus Titanium    92%

This is marketing Hype like DDR vs DDR2 vs DDR3 vs DDR4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Yt4vSZKVk

Same with Mhz myth.

Aka Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 670  3.80 GHz or  Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6300 2M Cache, 1.86 GHz.

The correct choice is the Core2 Duo being MORE THAN 200 percent faster than Netburst Pentium 4 piece of Junk. (Which is why these 2004 processors are END OF LIFE and AGP.)

AGP 2x is not 2 times faster than AGP

AGP 4x is not 4 times faster than AGP

AGP 8x is not 8 times faster than AGP

Same with Ram.

2 Gigs is horrible

4 Gigs is ok

8 Gigs is fine

16 and up is insignificant unless you are running virtual machines etc.

 

 

 

 

 

I see what you me thanks for that information. All in all this is what I ordered in short

Killer Wireless 1535 Driver
Killer 1535 802.11ac 2x2 WiFi and Bluetooth 4.2
Tray load DVD Drive (Reads and Writes to DVD/CD)
2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (Storage)
256GB M.2 PCIe Solid State Drive
16GB Dual Channel DDR4 at 2666MHz (2X8GB)
NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GTX 1080 Ti with 11GB GDDR5X
850W EPA Bronze PSU Liquid Cooled Chassis
Windows 10 Home (64bit) English
OC Controls
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7K 8700K (6-Core/12-Thread, 12MB Cache, up to 4.7GHz with Intel(R) Turbo Boost Technology)

an as a major gamer I've been outta the PC areas for awhile an been with ps3 an ps4 that being said I have alot more to learn as alots changed in 20 years. I feel I built a good machine to handle whatever I will throw at it.

Recommend you check the ram to make sure they did ship 2x8 and not 1x16, as they sent me.  I changed to 2x GSkill Ripjaws V, which was a big ramspeed improvement.

I was using an R7 with the same setup, except a 1TB spinner and a Samsung SM961 512GB NVMe PCIe.   It would do 4.8, but would get pretty hot and loud if heavily loaded.

Thank you for that information an I will definitely check everything over 3 times an then have a buddy that knows alot more the I check aswell

Ty I cant wait to get back to a real grind of gaming