I think a lot of people still don't know this stuff and it's quite reasonable to expect people not to know this stuff.
Not everyone is an electronic engineer, and if the overall wattage doesn't give the information people need, the sales/marketing should be forced to provide the necessary details right there on the box in "plain language"; RAM speeds are still a pet-peeve of mine.
That said, I've been building PC's for ~25 years and I'm yet to have a PSU fail on me. Anecdotal I know, and with some skew as I've always tended to build near or at the top end.
That said, the Ryzen hard lockups were a real disappointment for me, after spending north of £3500 on my desktop in the OG Ryzen era with an R7 1800X, I was left with a machine that frequently hard-locked when compiling code on all cores and AGESA is such a mess that if it boots at all, it takes several minutes at times to make it past POST.
I really hope the next gen build I make, whatever it is is more stable because I'm not planning to go back to Intel any time soon.
It's believed to be a fault with the Ryzen chips, though don't believe AMD ever officially addressed it (although they were RMAing them repeatedly for hte issue). I sent it back a couple of times for replacements but the lottery wasn't in my favour, and although the one I ended up with is better, it's not perfect;
I was an early adopter, and I accept that but it still left a bitter taste none the less, and ultimately it just meant that my pretty expensive computer barely got used because I hated dealing with it (still have it but barely boot it these days).
Not everyone is an electronic engineer, and if the overall wattage doesn't give the information people need, the sales/marketing should be forced to provide the necessary details right there on the box in "plain language"; RAM speeds are still a pet-peeve of mine.
That said, I've been building PC's for ~25 years and I'm yet to have a PSU fail on me. Anecdotal I know, and with some skew as I've always tended to build near or at the top end.
That said, the Ryzen hard lockups were a real disappointment for me, after spending north of £3500 on my desktop in the OG Ryzen era with an R7 1800X, I was left with a machine that frequently hard-locked when compiling code on all cores and AGESA is such a mess that if it boots at all, it takes several minutes at times to make it past POST.
I really hope the next gen build I make, whatever it is is more stable because I'm not planning to go back to Intel any time soon.