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Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec by davrosthedalek on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @09:24AM (#14202710)
Somewhere in the power supply, power is converted via a switched inductance, the power transfer is controlled by the switching frequency, with toughly the same energy transferred for each cycle (constant I_peak). Losses are roughly f*I_peak^2. There are several factors limiting maximum f, so to get a bigger maximum power, bigger power supplies have bigger I_peak. Thus, for the same transferred power, a bigger supply will have bigger I_peak and smaller f, but since I_peak appears squared, the loss is worse. (This is the rough explanation, the devil is in the details)

Additionally, many power supplies are worse at load regulation if their load is too low.

Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec by mirekrusin on Thursday April 27, 2017 @06:01PM (#14215131)
I just looked at corsair's efficiency graph and it seem that the best efficiency is around 50% of load on their PSUs.

Additionally up to around 35% load the fan is off, passive cooling is enough.