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PSU ranking and tier (as of FEB 2016)

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bodieph:
list from toms hardware (its the most recent I could find, the rest are from 2015). also the tier numbers are different depending on which site its coming from (some sites have up to tier 7)
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

Tier One
The highest quality and most stable Power Supply Units available. Protected by industrial grade protection circuitry and can output wattage at a rated maximum temperature of 50°C or below. These units are also Haswell certified, meaning they can cope with the C6 and C7 sleep states of 0.05Amps without triggering the under-current protection switch. May even go over labelled wattage and still work until it safely shuts down.

Tier Two
As above, just slightly lower quality. Still safe to use and are all stable for any PC of today's standards, including Haswell C Stepping certification. Recommended for those on a fairly limited budget.

Tier Three

Still safe to use and stable, just lower quality components. Not really ideal in serious overclocking or super-high load situations, such as a Bitcoin mining rig or a high end gaming system.

Tier Four

Built down to a low price. Not exactly the most stable units ever created. Very basic safety circuitry or even thin gauge wiring used. Not for gaming rigs or overclocking systems of any kind. Avoid unless your budget dictates your choice.

Tier Five
Avoid IMMEDIATELY. These units are highly unsafe to use. No such protections added, very thin gauge wiring used, false advertising and too much to list. Reference to a higher tiered unit for a better, money saving and a much safer unit. For your safety's sake, please don't order or pick one up for use in your system. These units are a potential fire hazard and could even kill you, let alone your system.
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Tier one
Antec High Current Pro Platinum Delta Electronics

Be Quiet 
Dark Power Pro P10 / 850w FSP (550w - 750w) / Seasonic (850w - 1200w)
Dark Power Pro P11 850w FSP

Corsair 
AX / AXi series 760w - 1200w Seasonic (AX) / Flextronics (AXi)
AX1500i Flextronics
HXi Channel Well Technology
RMi Channel Well Technology 
RM1000x Channel Well Technology 

Cooler Master V series / V series 1200w Seasonic

EVGA
SuperNova G2 / P2 / T2 Super Flower
Supernova GS Seasonic 
Supernova GQ FSP 
Supernova PS Seasonic 

Enermax DigiFanless 500w Channel Well Technology

Firepower Silencer MK3 1200w Super Flower

FSP 
Aurum PT FSP
Hydro G FSP

LEPA G1600 Enermax

Seasonic
Platinum series Seasonic
Snow Silent 1050w Seasonic
X series / X series XM2 Seasonic

Silverstone Nightjar Platinum 520w Seasonic

Super Flower 
Leadex Gold / Platinum / Titanium Super Flower
Golden King Super Flower
Golden Silent / 430w Super Flower

Thermaltake
ToughPower DPS-G RGB 1250w Channel Well Technology 
Toughpower DPS-G Platinum 1050w Enhance Electronics 

XFX
Pro series Black edition Seasonic
Pro series Black edition Limited Edition 1000w Seasonic
Pro series XXX / Semi-Modular Seasonic 
XTS Fanless Seasonic

bodieph:
Tier two

Andyson 
Platinum-R 850 / 1200 Andyson 
Titanium N 700w Andyson 

Antec
EDGE Seasonic
Earthwatts Delta Electronics/ Earthwatts Platinum FSP
High Current Gamer Delta Electronics (Non-Modular) / Seasonic (Semi-Modular)
Truepower Classic Seasonic (Essentially a Non-Modular version of the EDGE series)

Azza Platinum Super Flower
Be Quiet Straight Power 10 FSP 
Cooler Master VS Series Enhance
Corsair RM 850w Channel Well Technology 
Cyonic AU-550X / 650X Seasonic 
Enermax Platimax Enermax
EVGA Supernova B2 Super Flower

Firepower 
Silencer MK III 400 500 600 / 750 850 Super Flower
ZX Great Wall

Fractal Design Edison M Seasonic 
High Power / Sirfa Astro GD Sirfa

Rosewill
Capstone series Super Flower
Lightning series Super Flower
Quark 1000w Enhance
Silent Night 500 Watts Super Flower
Tachyon series Super Flower

Seasonic 
G series / G series V2 Seasonic 
M12-II EVO (fully modular) Seasonic 
S12G (Think of 2011 - 2013 Seasonic G series) Seasonic 
S12-II Seasonic 

SilentumPC Supremo M1 Gold 550w Sirfa

Silverpower
SP 460w Fully Modular Seasonic 
SP Semi-modular Seasonic 

Silverstone 
Strider Gold Evolution Enhance 
Strider Plus 750w 850w 1000w 600w Enhance 
SFX-G / SFX-LG SX-G = Enhance / SFX-LG = High Power / Sirfa 

Super Flower Golden Green / Modular / HX series Super Flower 
Sentey Golden Steel Power 850 Watts Super Flower 

Thermaltake
Toughpower Gold 850M Enhance 
Toughpower Grand 1200F High Power / Sirfa 
Toughpower Grand Platinum 850w 1200w Enhance 
Toughpower DPS Gold Channel Well Technology 

XFX 
TS 430w / 550w-SEW Seasonic
XTR series Seasonic

bodieph:
Tier Three

Antec VP / VP w/P or F suffix Delta Electronics

Be Quiet 
Power zone series 650 850 750 1000 FSP 
Pure Power / Pure Power CM HEC Compucase 
Straight power E9 FSP 

Cooler Master 
G Modular Channel Well Technology
GX II Enhance 
Silent pro M2 / Gold / Platinum Enhance 

Corsair
CS Great Wall
RM Channel Well Technology (450w - 650w, 1000w) / Chicony (750w)

Deepcool Quanta 750w 1000w 1200w Channel Well Technology 

Enermax 
naXn ADV 650 Watts Enermax 
Revolution X't series Enermax 
Triathlor / Triathlor FC series Enermax 

EVGA 
430W / 500W HEC Compucase 
500B / 600B HEC Compucase 
NEXG FSP 

Firepower 
Fatal1ty 2012 1000w Gold Channel Well technology 
Fatal1ty 2016 750w High Power / Sirfa 
ZT series High Power / Sirfa 

FSP 
Aurum 92+ FSP 
Aurum Gold FSP 
Aurum S FSP 
Aurum Xilencer FSP 

Fractal Design 
Integra M series High Power / Sirfa 
Newton R3 Series ATNG 

InWin
Commander III InWin / Powerman 
GreenMe series InWin / Powerman 

Kingwin Powerforce 850w High Power / Sirfa 

LEPA 
G500 Enermax 
Lepa G900 Enermax 

NZXT Hale 90 V2 FSP 

Rosewill 
Capstone G1200 Enhance Electronics 
Fortress Series ATNG 
Hercules 1600 Watts High Power / Sirfa 
Hive / Hive S series High Power / Sirfa 
Photon 750w High Power / Sirfa 

Silverstone 
Strider Essential 400w 500w 600w High Power / Sirfa 
ST300F / ST450F FSP 
Strider Gold S 750W v2 High power / Sirfa 
Strider Platinum 750w High power / Sirfa 

Thermaltake
London 550w Channel Well Technology 
Toughpower1200M 1350M 1500M Channel Well Technology 
Toughpower Gold 1200w Enhance 
Toughpower XT 775M Channel Well Technology 
Toughpower XT Gold series (Really confusing name, since they are rated Platinum) Channel Well Technology 
Toughpower XT Platinum 1275w (Please don't confuse this one with the XT Gold line) Channel Well Technology 

XigmatekMaverick S 500w Andyson 
Xilence Performance A series HEC Compucase 
Zalman/b] ZM-700 GSM High power / Sirfa 

bodieph:
Tier Four

Aerocool 
GT Series 500s 700s 1050s HEC Compucase / Andyson (1050S model only)
Integrator 600w HEC Compucase 
Strike-X series 800w 1100w Andyson 
Templarius Imperator series Channel Well Technology ( 550W, 650W) / Andyson (750W - 1150W)

Cooler Master Elite II 550w (technically a 500w unit, maybe a typo from design department) Unknown OEM. Possibly HEC Compucase 

Corsair 
CX / CXM Channel Well Technology
VS Channel Well Technology 

EVGA NEXB FSP 
Firepower Fatal1ty 2013 High Power / Sirfa 
FSP Raider series FSP 
InWin Glacier ATNG 

LEPA 
MaxBron B1000M Yuelin 
MX-F1 series (Trigger-happy Overcurrent protection and very poor quality capacitors) Channel Well Technology 

NZXT 
Hale82N 650w FSP 
Hale82 V2 700w High Power / Sirfa 

Raidmax Cobrapower 500w (Not to be confused with Akasa's Cobra series) Andyson
SilentumPC Vero M1 600w Sama / Guangzhou AOJIE 
Thermaltake Smart / Smart M Channel Well Technology (M Suffix, 550P, 650P, 750P) / HEC Compucase (430P, 530P, 630P, 730P) / High Power (1000M, 1200M)

bodieph:
Tier Five

A-TOP technology
Apevia
Apex (SUPERCASE/ALLIED)
Artic / Ace (They're the same company)
Aspire (Turbocase)
ATADC
ATRIX
Broadway Com Corp
CIT
Coolmax
Deer
Diablotek
Dynapower
Dynex
Eagletech
Enlight
Evo labs
EZ-cool
Foxconn
G7
HEC / Compucase Orion
HEDY (should be WAAAYYY lower down than these units. They're that bad)
iBall
iStar computer co.
Jeantec
JPac
Just PC
Linkworld electronics
Logisys computer
Macron
MSi (just stick to their GPUs and motherboards)
NMEDIAPC
Norwood Micro/ CompUSA
Okia
Powercool
Powmax
Pulsepower
Q-tec
Rocketfish
SFC
Sharkoon
Shuttle
Skyhawk
Startech
Storm
Sumvision
Tesla 
Ultra

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