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If you're building a new PC, you're going to want to buy a power supply sooner versus later.
- Thread starter Inugami
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I have an EVGA G3 650W from 2018 that I'm optimistic will be fine for adding an Ampere card with my current 8700K @ 4.5 GHz all core.
Long term I'd also like to be able to move over to AMD and grab one of the future Ryzen releases as presumably game development will start to use multithreading more often at which point the 6C / 12T of the 8700K could be a concern. That may be an opportunity to size up on PSU but too early to say what the power requirements would be.
Long term I'd also like to be able to move over to AMD and grab one of the future Ryzen releases as presumably game development will start to use multithreading more often at which point the 6C / 12T of the 8700K could be a concern. That may be an opportunity to size up on PSU but too early to say what the power requirements would be.
Thank you both. I ended up going with Amazon since I'm sending all my PC Parts to my PO Box and I cannot cross the border right now so I'm in no hurry to do it. Plus, even if I wanted to do it right now I wouldn't be able to since my NR200P case I ordered currently has no shipping date šŖ
Just picked up the Seasonic FOCUS GM-750 for $110 to replace a 13 year old power supply. Thanks for the heads up.
my 10 year old hx750 crapped out a few months ago. upgraded to a 2070s and my pc started shutting down when gaming. replaced with a rm750x and paid around $140 in may. its still in stock at newegg (US) right now for that price.
My SuperNova G2 750 turns 3 next month. Hopefully I'm good for a long time. All has been well so far and I've never had a PSU fail on me on any desktop I've ever owned.
edit: goddamn everything is really OOS https://www.evga.com/products/ProductList.aspx?type=10&family=Power+Supplies&chipset=750+Watts
edit: goddamn everything is really OOS https://www.evga.com/products/ProductList.aspx?type=10&family=Power+Supplies&chipset=750+Watts
My AX850 fan is starting to go. But I salvaged an AX1200 and ripped the fan out of it. Looks like it would need to be soldered though.
Thankfully I am still rocking my EVGA G2 750W. I think it'll work for quite a while.
PSU buddies!!!
Luckily due to a huge backlog and not jumping to 4K, I'm basically going to ride my i7 4770 + GTX 760 rig until it finally kicks the bucket. Though it's already halfway there. =/ My HX 750 PSU died and replaced it with a cheaper Rosewill Photon (luckily got it before the pandemic) and one of my 760s also died shortly after (glad I bought two due to buying into that SLI bullshit in my younger days).
My 10+yr old Corsair HX 520w PSU was getting creaky earlier in the year, and it's fan died. I got another Corsair to replace it. This time the RM750x. Seems like I got it just the right time!
Isn't this.... old news? It was true couple months back, but now PSU stock and prices seem to be normalizing.
I get hesitant with used PC hardware nowadays thanks to all the miners in recent years.
PSU prices have been high for the entire year and a good chunk of 2019 as well. I built a PC for a friend in Dec. 2019 and even a cheap semi-modular Corsair 650W Bronze PSU with 5 year warranty was $80.
In 2016, $80 bought me a fully modular SeaSonic 660W Platinum PSU with a 7 year warranty.
In 2016, $80 bought me a fully modular SeaSonic 660W Platinum PSU with a 7 year warranty.
Thanks. I bought the SF750.
My next SFX build going to be insanely expensive, $350 Mjolnir case, 3080Ti / 3090, 64GB Ram and most powerful CPU that can work with a limited AIO.
At least on this side of the globe, yeah they've been out of stock for a while or really expensive. I have an EVGA 450W BR unit since 2018, and it's pretty good, but I fear it will be too low for a b550 + R5/R7 + 3060 down the road so I want to swap it.
I'm looking at a Ryzen 4000 build this year (if they ever get around to release). If I put 32gb ram and a gtx 1060 6gb in there, any ideas what kind of ps I would be needing?
Wooo thanks for the heads up. Planning to change SFF case in November, and I'll sell the node 202 with the psu it came with.
Prices for the Corsair SF450 platinum had not budged in Canada yet, so I ordered that.
Prices for the Corsair SF450 platinum had not budged in Canada yet, so I ordered that.
Should be enough I believe? 650W is plenty for a 2080 Ti now, no reason a node upgrade (both cpu and GPU) would drastically change this, in fact it will probably improve.
Anyone wanting to grab one:
Phanteks AMP Series 750W $110 + shipping, fully modular, SeaSonic innards, In Stock
EDIT - or these:
SeaSonic Electronics Focus Gold Series 550W $100 free shipping, semi-modular, In Stock
Fractal Design Ion+ 660P 660W 80 PLUS Platinum $120 free shipping, fully modular, In Stock
All in A-tier in this list, FWIW.
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Phanteks AMP Series 750W $110 + shipping, fully modular, SeaSonic innards, In Stock
EDIT - or these:
SeaSonic Electronics Focus Gold Series 550W $100 free shipping, semi-modular, In Stock
Fractal Design Ion+ 660P 660W 80 PLUS Platinum $120 free shipping, fully modular, In Stock
All in A-tier in this list, FWIW.
[EOL] PSU Tier List rev. 14.8
PSU Tier List 4.0 rev. 14.8 (END OF LIFE) Last Update: 27-07-2021 Legend : Gray - EoL/obsolete and/or otherwise not recommended for purchase. Green - small form-factor (gold and blue colors are disregarded due to scarcity of SFX PSUs) Gold - best units in the tier (includes requirements for blue ...
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I have this one and it hasn't blown up yet. IIRC it's identical to one of the Seasonics except branding.
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As someone who's literally had a cheap power supply smoke and catch fire (but luckily not take anything else with it) this is very true.
Never cheaped out on once since and never had another issue with stability or... You know... Fire.
I am fortunate that the case and the psu was some of the first parts I bought.
Waiting the new Ryzen, 3080, and a Samsung pcie 4 nvme ssd now.
I bought a 550W a while back; seems pretty high quality. I believe it's the equivalent of SeaSonic's Focus Plus Gold line.
Looking at this review, only real potential issue is it gets loud under high load (like 500W+) due to fan profile. Which honestly, most builds you're not going to be hitting that often if at all.
Phanteks AMP Series 750W Power Supply Review
The Phanteks AMP 750W achieves good performance in almost all sections and it is backed up by a hefty ten-year warranty.
www.tomshardware.com
Do you guys think a 650 watt is still good enough to power what will probably be the 3080 and a 3800x
Well, I'm glad that I don't have to worry about that thanks to the fact that I bought a 750W power supply from thermal take on 2018 when I realized that the one that I had at the time, one with 600W didn't have enough power for me to run FFXV on my PC without crashing my system turning itself off after a few minutes.
This is how my build is probably going to end up btw. Green means I already have the part.
- EVGA Supernova G2 850W
- Ryzen 4800X / 4700X? (depends on how much money I decide to spend)
- RTX 3070
- 32 GB RAM (16x2) 3200 MHz CL16
- Haven't decided motherboard yet
- Samsung 970 EVO 1 TB NVMe SSD
- Toshiba X300 4 TB HDD (7200 RPM)
I'm so excited
- EVGA Supernova G2 850W
- Ryzen 4800X / 4700X? (depends on how much money I decide to spend)
- RTX 3070
- 32 GB RAM (16x2) 3200 MHz CL16
- Haven't decided motherboard yet
- Samsung 970 EVO 1 TB NVMe SSD
- Toshiba X300 4 TB HDD (7200 RPM)
I'm so excited
did you end up getting this? if so, what fan eco mode setting do you use?
i did not. i think my seasonic x650 uses this curve though, unless the newer ones are different
I may upgrade, I have about 95 bucks in amazon credit, future proof my power supply when I finally upgrade from this 1150 build.
I've been slowly buying parts for my build as stuff goes on sale, but I guess I'll just nab a PSU at MSRP just in case.
I just picked up a SilverStone SX700-PT 80+ Platinum SFX fully modular PSU for $175 on Amazon the other day for my new ITX build. I've been really happy with it so far. The cables are flat cables too which makes it easy to manipulate for nice cable management.