Matthew Wai wrote:
On another forum, someone thinks that Platinum = high efficiency = complicated design = prone to problems = instability. What do you think?
It might be, and it might not, really will depend more on the design and the components themselves, you cant generalized as a hole imo. Now if we go by that premise, Titanium would be even more complicated and prone to more issues, and i own 3 titanium PSU for a year now, no issues at all, i also own 3 platinum for 3 years and also no issues at all.
Now on the worth pov, i think Gold is a pretty solid standard, coming from Bronze (i never saw silver take over), the difference is big in my experience, most PSU are more quiet, and now its as cheap as it was bronze in back in the day, the upgrade toward platinum is a small one, but also the pricing is very tight now a days (on ATX, sadly not that many options on SFX PSUs), now one thing to keep in mind is that usually SFX PSUs have smaller fans, 80 to 92 mm are more common, some PSU cooling design are based on load others on temperature and some with both, now a platinum PSU should be slightly more efficient thus losing less energy in form of heat, in theory should be a little quieter (something that might be so small that might not be worth it, again depends on each design).
I have preordered the Corsair SF600 Platinum for mini itx build, but its been a month and hasn't shipped from amazon, not sure whats the deal, corsair said august will hit retail, now we are on September and no stock, gives some second thoughts, but its more likely they are trying to lower their stock on the gold versions, but personally i can see them both co exist with a slight price bump. I'll share my thoughts once i get it.