Sharkoon Announces WPM V2 Series Power Supplies
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Sharkoon has announced a new budget-oriented power supply.
Sharkoon has announced a new lineup of power supplies: the WPM V2 units. These units are intended as functional and effective power supplies on a budget.
The power supplies will come with power delivery envelopes ranging between 400 W and 700 W, with increments of 100 W. Cooling is achieved with a 140 mm fan.
Sharkoon has equipped the power supplies with a semi-modular cable interface, where the most crucial cables aren't removable, saving money on production and thus your wallet.
Unfortunately, the units don't feature any 80-Plus certification, but are at a starting price tag of €39.99. They'll serve just fine for units running for only a couple of hours per day.
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I completely agree that the PSU is something that I do not cut corners on as every other piece in your entire system is connected to it, so buying something of quality makes sense. I can also see buying a power supply that is larger than needed, but only if you have intentions of adding a second graphics card later. If you only intend on running a single video card (since nothing else you would be adding in the future is going to ramp up power needs anywhere close to a second GPU) it is much better to plan out how much your system is going to draw and buy a proper wattage PSU. The reason being that PSU's run at their maximum efficiency while under a 50% load. So saying your system draws 280 watts, 700w power supply would be ideal if we are assuming it is an 80% efficient model. (80% of 700w = 560w which is the actual output, and loading it 50% puts it at 280w). Getting up into the gold and platinum rated PSU's makes your wattage requirement even smaller from the added efficiency. Please note that this is just to try and hit maximum efficiency, as a lower wattage would still be fine, but you don't want to be taxing it too much.
I apologize Haravikk if that is what you meant by stating " I always try to get a PSU that's several hundred watts more than I need", but I just wanted to clarify that in this case you would need a 700w, but buying a 1000w with no intentions of later adding another GPU would actually be worse. Another thing to consider is that the bigger the PSU, the less efficient they are at idle. So if you leave on your PC 24/7, planning out the proper wattage becomes important again. But like you were saying, this is one component where I always recommend people bite the bullet and buy something nice like a smaller 90%+ efficient model.
As far as this power supply in the article, you can find 80 Plus certified PSU's for roughly the same price after rebate so I don't really see where the value is here.