PSU Wattage Selection Trends Amid High-TDP GPU Adoption
Flagship GPUs now demand power budgets that old sizing rules no longer support safely.
Declan Tsui
Platform & Ecosystem Correspondent
Declan covers the structural shifts that reshape the PC market — from socket changes and memory standards to the rise of ARM-based computing on the desktop. Before joining PC Parts Pulse he reported on enterprise infrastructure, which sharpens his perspective on how platform decisions ripple from data centers down to consumer builds.
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