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I agree, ATX PSUs have little to offer to the general populace now that >700W SFX is available and is quiet. Especially because a huge portion of people will never reach 300W load with modern hardware. But since manufacturers are still promoting "bigger is better" in cases which most people populate with one of those oversized GPUs, who can blame them when people are paying $800 or €900 for a single GTX 1080.So while SFX PSUs were being "spread thin" in most SFF builds 3 to 5 years ago when 450W was the max and 250-300W TDP GPUs were all the rage, the situation has now reversed and allowed lower power GPUs to become available and SFX PSU power to increase dramatically. Even though SFX PSUs have become a thing in the public and not just the seemingly obscure SFF world, where are the cases ? Are they coming, promised like the dragons were in the first season of Game of Thrones ?And a follow-up question: what will the case manufacturers do with this new possibility ? Will they finally realise huge honking cases are so 2001 and finally proceed to reducing footprint and volume ? Will they hope some other brand will make SFX-compatible cases, even though the brands bringing out the SFX PSUs are already case manufacturers ?It's all so vague right now what the companies as a whole and seperately want to achieve.
I agree, ATX PSUs have little to offer to the general populace now that >700W SFX is available and is quiet. Especially because a huge portion of people will never reach 300W load with modern hardware. But since manufacturers are still promoting "bigger is better" in cases which most people populate with one of those oversized GPUs, who can blame them when people are paying $800 or €900 for a single GTX 1080.
So while SFX PSUs were being "spread thin" in most SFF builds 3 to 5 years ago when 450W was the max and 250-300W TDP GPUs were all the rage, the situation has now reversed and allowed lower power GPUs to become available and SFX PSU power to increase dramatically. Even though SFX PSUs have become a thing in the public and not just the seemingly obscure SFF world, where are the cases ? Are they coming, promised like the dragons were in the first season of Game of Thrones ?
And a follow-up question: what will the case manufacturers do with this new possibility ? Will they finally realise huge honking cases are so 2001 and finally proceed to reducing footprint and volume ? Will they hope some other brand will make SFX-compatible cases, even though the brands bringing out the SFX PSUs are already case manufacturers ?
It's all so vague right now what the companies as a whole and seperately want to achieve.
