I’m turning into a bit of an energy conservationalist, if there’s such a word!

I was dong a bit of reading about energy efficient power supply units for PC’s. I suddenly thought about the cheap 350w Jeantech unit I had in my machine purchased in PC World. I don’t usually buy stuff from there but there’s one down the road and I needed it quick.

I checked it out and it had a 65% energy conversion rating. Apparently this means that if 100w is being used by the PSU 65w actually get delivered at the output stage. I thought this was pretty poor.

Anyways I did some research and after a while I came across Coirsair and there new range of units offers an 85% conversion.

I am now the proud owner of one of the 450w models and must say it’s a very nice unit, well made with loads of neatly bound connections. It was only £35 too.

So I’m saving 20% on my PC electricity costs, should pay for itself soon, cool! Highly recommended to anyone. I’ll be using these or better rated PSU units in all future system builds.

If anyone has any more information on this subject including better rated units please leave a comment.