• 0 Posts
  • 10 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 17th, 2023

help-circle




  • Particularly in low-load scenarios there can be quite a big difference when it comes to PSU efficiency. While newer ATX PSUs have become better with regards to efficiency at low load, a Pico PSU can still be quite a bit better. Older ATX PSU often don’t even reach 60 % efficiency at 5 % load (which would be a typical load for such a system at idle), sometimes considerably less than that. At the same load a Pico PSU can easily be at 85 % efficiency.
    Of course, at higher loads the difference is way smaller.