Power supply with insufficient effectiveness consume excessive amounts of energy and produce excessive amounts of heat. This contributes to heating systems and more than necessary, energy consumption. To combat the problem of poor nutrition was established certification 80 PLUS, on which the power supplies, depending on their effectiveness are assigned to different classes.

Very attractive 80 PLUS Gold certification until recently was the highest estimate, which could get the power supply, but it is now score Platinum, with 90% efficiency. So, the latest version of the table with 80 PLUS certification is as follows:

Standard 80 PLUS Platinum requires that the power supply could maintain 90% efficiency at load of 20% and 91% efficiency at 100% load. The only company that has managed to immediately produce power supplies that meet the standard of Platinum, it is HP, which has already begun to use the PSU 80 PLUS Power Platinum on the market of servers, where the account every watt of energy saved. It is expected that soon the sale will power supplies from various manufacturers certified 80 PLUS Platinum.