chos5555

Alright, great, thanks for the explanation

The HWBusters article has in the conclusion as a con "Efficiency needs boosting, especially at light loads" That's mainly where I saw it. Alright thanks, since I already have it on my profile, I'm buying from basically anywhere in Czechia (alza.cz is the biggest shop here, so I guess there)

Yeah, of course I know what's been happening to the 13th and 14th gen intel CPUs, unfortunately, this and some of the other things (like GPU, RAM, case) I already have for a good amount of time. I don't really mind limiting the voltage for the time being and waiting for what Intel comes up with, but I'm probably not gonna be changing the CPU now Thanks, gonna check those out. I know I'm building a high end machine, but since my last PC lasted me for 8 years, going for something that can also be efficient when just watching videos and not blasting the latest games could save some money in the long run Definitely gonna take a look Would a 1000W be enough if I upgrade to a newer (probably higher TDP) GPU down the road?

Hey everyone, While building a new PC, I got a bit stuck on what PSU to choose. First of my specs: Intel i9 14900KF Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super 92GB (2x48) 6400 DDR5 Corsair Dominator Titanium Asus ROG Z790 Maximus Formula Lian Li O11 Dynamic Evo XL Full custom watercooling (CPU for now) 10 Noctua fans (9x140mm, 1x120mm) EK D5 pump That said, I'm gonna look to upgrade the GPU maybe next generation, or the one after if I can and watercool the GPU also and if it's ever stable, I'd like to add another 92GB of RAM just for the lols. From a few wattage calculators I tried, with a moderate overclock, it tells me I need around 950W. With how power hungry future GPUs are looking (I saw some rumors about 5090 having 500W TDP?!) I'd like to get a slightly bigger one to make sure I don't have to upgrade in the future until I build another computer (current PC lasted me like 8 years). Right now I'm looking at 2 options: BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 13 1300W - 355 USD Seasonic Prime TX 1300W - 460 USD The prices are what I can find locally, the Seasonic is out of stock almost everywhere, while the BQ is on a little bit of a sale. I'm mainly looking for quality, but not for a crazy premium. Is the seasonic worth the premium? I've heard the BeQuiet is not so efficient when running at low power (when PC is idling). I also heard about some loud fan issues, but I've found those for both, so that's not a factor I guess. Basically I've got a couple questions. 1. Most importantly, is the Seasonic worth the 100 USD premium? 2. Would a 1000W suffice even when taking a possible future crazy-TDP GPU into consideration (that would allow me to get something like the FSP Hydro Ti Pro 1000W, which looks good and is cheaper)? 3. Any disadvantages of the 2 PSUs I'm considering or a better one I should take a look at? Thank you for any and all replies, Chos

Primocache worked for me, I will see how good the performance boosts will be and I will decide if I want to pay for the program, right now I have the free trial. Thanks to als of you for helping me!!

Thanks, I will look into that

So I can't do it?

Ummm, When I try to type $SSD, $HDD or Get-StorageTier -FriendlyName *SSD* I get nothing in return, I think I should get at least something, right?

I actually don't remember exactly, cause I was searching online and was trying everything I found , fortunately I backed up my files , brief overview: I created a pool in Storage Spaces through control panel, which included simple resiliency and I included the RAID 1 4TB array and the SSD, I actually don't know if I setup a Virtual Disk afterwards in powershell, that would probably be the problem right? EDIT: I tried to delete the old pool and created a new one, and tried the command you posted, Get-StoragePool "4TB" | New-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "4TB Cached Storage" -ResiliencySettingName "Simple" –StorageTiers $SSD, $HDD -StorageTierSizes 110GB, 3.63TB, and yes, I have the pool named 4TB, so that should be fine and it says: New-VirtualDisk : Failed to run CIM method CreateVirtualDisk on the MSFT_StoragePool (ObjectId = "{1}\\DESKTOP-U6R94VR\ root/Microsoft/Win...) CIM object. Pole CIM nesmí obsahovat elementy, které jsou null. Název parametru: value At line:1 char:25 + ... ool "4TB" | New-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "4TB Cached Storage" -Resil ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (MSFT_StoragePoo...crosoft/Win...):CimInstance) [New-VirtualDisk], CimJobE xception + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CimJob_ArgumentException,New-VirtualDisk Any ideas?

I pretty much got it to work, the only thing I can't do, is increase the cache size I only have the the 1GB cache that was set when I created the pool, the storagepoolfriendlyname slot is empty when I try to list it in powershell, I do not know how to set it and I need it to increas or modify the cache. Do you know how to set storagepoolfriendlyname or how to increase cache without it?

You can go full balls to the walls and go RAID 0 on everything if you only want speed, but then of course, 1 drive fails, you loose all the data in the array, maybe you could use some HDDs in raid 1 or 5 or 6 or 10 for all of your data(not doing separate arrays for apps, games, data, etc.) and use like a 250, 500 GB or 1 TB SDD to cache it with some kind of software. I would still install the OS on the PCIE SSD anyways

hmmm... that is a pretty intiresting setup, as you asked, games only load better on SSDs(in RAID 0 or not), I would put the OS on the PCIE SSD, cause if you put it on the 4 SSDs in RAID 0, you would have much greater chance of one of them failing and loosing your OS, maybe if you wouldn't put ANYTHING on there, no apps, nothing, maybe you wouldn't mind if you lost the OS, you could just install another copy of Windows EDIT: I would put your most used data on the SSDs and OS on the PCIE SSD

yes, if it has SATA connectors, you can

You most likely CAN buy replacements boards, they should be easy to find on sites like Aliexpress, when you search for the drives name(example: STBD6000100) and you should find replacement boards.

Ok, thanks