Asus ROG Thor 850 fully modular RGB PSU now 44% off on Amazon

[Redaktion]

Certified 80+ Platinum and built using low-ESR capacitors, the Asus ROG Thor 850 PSU features dustproof IPX5 wing-blade fans, ROG heatsinks,  Aura Sync addressable RGB lighting, and a LiveDash OLED panel that displays the power draw in real-time. After a 44% discount, it is now available on Amazon for US$139.99.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-ROG-Thor-850-fully-modular-RGB-PSU-now-44-off-on-Amazon.674445.0.html

[Kb9qdi]

So funny how Amazon marks up the list price on products to make it look like a deal.I bought one in September for $169.99 normal list price lol. Sad Amazon.

[G]

It's still overpriced for an 850, and will be obsolete next year given the new ATX 3.0 standards already being utilized.
If you're looking for future proof, probably the dumbest $150 (once you add tax) you'll spend in 2022.
Even if you're build doesn't need anything to do with ATX 3.0/12+vhpwr (for the future of GPUs), your $150 could instead get you a much higher wattage PSU for future expandability, as even the"mighty kings of power efficient CPU/GPU" (AMD) have already shown they need much more power to compete with Nvidia's GPUs.
But go ahead and buy it, you can add "never again make uniformed/impulse purchases" to your new year's resolutions.
Happy holidays to you all!!

[Codrut Nistor]

Do you think that it's all about wattage??? I am sure you don't. I am using a passive Platinum-rated Seasonic in my desktop PC and I'll probably keep it around for another decade (I think I've been using for about 11-12 years already). Oh, yeah, and it only has 450 W.