Efficiency
A PSU always draws more power out of the socket in your home than it provides to the PC System. The difference is dissipation or heat. To give you an example - when the PC Power & Cooling PSU provides 850 watts to the PC system it needs 1058 watts from your mains. The efficiency is the ratio between Power IN and OUT. Aopen scores best with 84 percent while Antec still has some room for improvement.
Power Factor Correction
The power factor shows how much your PSU distorts the power drawn from the mains. This kind of displacement is also known as the Cosine of phi. Ideally it would be 1.00 (no displacement or distortion) but none of the PSU is able to manage that. Enermax achieves top values here. Fortron, however, is not very convincing. But bear in mind that Fortron is the only PSU in this roundup that is completely silent due to passive cooling.
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