> care about electrical efficiency (there's no big yellow energy tags on
> computers, yet), but would care about noise.  Someone designing a rack

the "plus 80" branding is pretty ubiquitous now, and the best part
is that commodity ATX parts are starting to show up at gold levels.
server vendors have offered gold or platinum for a while now, but it's
probably more important in the home, since personal machines spend more
time idling, thus running the PSU at low demand.  poor-quality PSUs
are remarkably bad at low utilization.

regards, mark hahn.
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