"Haswell Ready" PSU compatible with AMD CPU?

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VacheDeeBoom

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Recently, i got a Thermaltake PSU and it mentions it is "Haswell Ready". I know that it's compatible with the Intel Haswell CPUs but is it compatible with an AMD processor as well?
 
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^^^^^that all depends if the pc oems uses them by default or not in their bios since the release of haswell and since those settings in an pc oem custom bios aren't displayed for the most part no one knows except for the oem maker. so it's hard to tell how many haswell and up based oem pc's have the c6/c7 state actually enabled or not. I know many 3rd party motherboard vendors turn it off by default in the bios so it doesn't cause conflict with any non haswell ready based psu, but many psu's have supported that low state anyhow for years unless you have a really old psu or a really cheap one. take for example the Allied AL-D500EXP psu that's been out since 2007 and newegg's website states that its haswell ready. so it's not like...
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Why wouldn't it be? That "Haswell ready" thing is just marketing. It's the same as "skype ready" headphones, so if it isn't marked that they are skype ready, does that mean that they won't work with it? No, its just placed to attract people that don't have a lot of knowledge about electronics. Most of the good products don't have that "Hasswell/Vishera ready" crap because they don't need marketing tricks to be sold.

But also be aware that AMD CPUs have a considerably bigger power consumption, so can you tell us what model of your PSU and the rest of the build?
 
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^^^^^that all depends if the pc oems uses them by default or not in their bios since the release of haswell and since those settings in an pc oem custom bios aren't displayed for the most part no one knows except for the oem maker. so it's hard to tell how many haswell and up based oem pc's have the c6/c7 state actually enabled or not. I know many 3rd party motherboard vendors turn it off by default in the bios so it doesn't cause conflict with any non haswell ready based psu, but many psu's have supported that low state anyhow for years unless you have a really old psu or a really cheap one. take for example the Allied AL-D500EXP psu that's been out since 2007 and newegg's website states that its haswell ready. so it's not like these haswell ready psu's just hit the market a couple of years ago.
 
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