80 PLUS vs Cybenetics: Which Power Supply Certification Offers Better Clarity and Reliability?

If you look at the effective certification guide, it seems to me that the 80 PLUS certification is the best/clearest one. Then you at least know what was measured.

With Cybenetics you get one average value that needs to be achieved, so you don’t know anything, a single average is not a reliable indicator. The additional tests they do have less value, which they themselves say are not absolute requirements, for example the efficiency is titanium, vampire is bronze: overall there is platinum, so if you look at the certificate only, you don’t know anything yet.

80 PLUS is also not ideal, but it gives you at least a vague idea of ​​the efficiency curve. As far as I’m concerned, this ‘new’ method is definitely not progress, but regression with more anxiety and less clarity on what you actually get.

Something similar happens with sound measurements, this is also about an average, not the peak or something like that. So your fan is not on to 400W and higher you have a lawn mower next to your desk, it still gets a good score as an average…

Most likely the certificate will be cheaper or something like that. I definitely don’t see any benefit from it and you still rely on reviews, which is good news for tweakers etc.

If they really wanted to do this right, they should have specific values ​​for both the average and the maximum/minimum and the standard deviation or something similar and make it clear which range in do they perform the measurement, or are weights tied or are they all measured equally, etc. etc. What not to do if you want to represent an entire range with a single number and you don’t trust the source…

[Reactie gewijzigd door TetsuoShima op 7 augustus 2024 17:58]