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well the Seasonic units are nice but very expensive where i'm from prices are as follows. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WfaIi9LMbmxOE-8JOXpfE02XkSPuOv_BRudWR73kRn4/edit?usp=sharing I forgot to mention i'm partaking in folding@home when i'm not using my desktop

my only concern has been when i used Outervisions PSU watt calculator, which seems pretty extensive, then it calculates load wattage at 633W. i've linked configuration below. https://outervision.com/b/0fmxYE

Hey LTT forum I'm in need of a new power supply as my old one has given up. I have posted all relevant hardware below, i useually run a 10% OC, on the CPU, but I like to tinker. and the GPU i was not able to I recently upgraded my system to full loop watercooling and a 1080Ti so i'm now running an I7-6700k on an asus Z170 sabertooth mrk1. with a 1080Ti I currently only have 2 DDR4 memory modules installed but i'm planning to upgrade to 4 Sticks later on. Storage is broken down as 1xnvme 2x SSD 1x SSHD & 1x HDD the water cooling is taken care of by an EK-Fluid Gaming 360 loop. with a total of 6 fans in the case I have some case light in my which is handled by a Corsair Node pro controller with 6x30cm strips attached I'm quite intrigued by the power monitoring abilities of the RM750i from Corsair and the E850 from NZXT, but i am also aware that for less money it's possible to pickup an Fractal Design Ion+ Platinum 860W or 760W instead for a lower price. There might also be other alternatives i should look and this is where i hope you guy can help, I have been speculating whether a 660W unit could do the trick, but i'm also somewhat concerned about noise and i'm aware that the fan would turn on earlier in a 660W unit. Lastly i have been considering an SF750 from corsair, not because i have a build that requires an SFX but i'm thinking of maybe goin ITX when MOBO+CPU needs upgrade. Any and all advice are much appreciated.

im hard pressed to see what he would use 24 gb of ram in a system that old and DDR3 is not usefull in upgrading the rest. If he wants to upgrade CPU and motherboard he will anyway be moving to DDR4. so i would advise against this, unless he has a program that really uses a ton of ram. If you can give us a little more information about what program he is using how much and how often, and if upgrading system is something he is considering then a list of current components and a budget would be very helpfull.

Microsoft did write that it would never die while charging (because it will throttle when at low battery) . Still sucks though

Both of the previous is suggesting Very good CPUs but if it mainly ment for gaming maybe a little too good a better balance between CPU and GPU price would be as seen below i generated a couple of options both for AMD and Intel builds. if you wanna do PUBG 1080 60fps you want at least a 1070 any other mainstream title is gonna be fine on high settings with a 1060 and in some cases a 1050Ti For all of the build i upgraded to a 500gb last gen SSD as the storage volume is more important for this level of build than those marginal gains to upgrading to newest gen. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZpKH6X i5-8400 + GTX 1070 Ti --- with rebates 1523USD without 1563USD https://pcpartpicker.com/list/4zkcWX 5-1600x + GTX 1070 Ti --- with rebates 1506USD without 1566USD https://pcpartpicker.com/list/9tCmnn I5-8600k + GTX 1080 --- with rebates 1633USD without 1703USD https://pcpartpicker.com/list/FfhPM8 R7-1700x + GTX 1080 --- with rebates 1616USD without 1706USD all of these will handily run 1080p 60fps and the lower prices system could easily be downgraded to a 1060 and still be reasonable system (though we would start to run into an overpowered CPU compared to GPU for most titles) you could easily save around 20 USD on any of the buildy by going down to non RGB ram(reular triden Z or corsair LPX). partucularly AMD is very dependent on ram frequency for how well it performs They don't support over 3200MHz though so keep it at that. going for a Hyper 12x is deffinetly a possible cheaper alternative if you don't plan to OC alternatively darkpower has a very solid Air cooler for around 50USD. PSU (especially if not planning to OC and if going with the 1070TI builds could easily be dropped down to a RM500 which could in turn bed exchanged for a cheaper 500W plus powersupply from any reputable brand for a further savings. A good thing about high wattage is theres a bigger chance you can keep the fan from spinning and light loads. the added efficency is not worth it if you are looking at power consumption. you will usually be looking a 6 years + payback time for your extra investment.

for a little bit of a perfomance "showdown see attached link" GPU gaming benchmarks, with relevant with GPU's around the performance of a 980m,  from Notebookcheck.net. what price do you find these at compared to for example desktop GTX 970 or 980s used? both of these will blow the 980m out of the water. I'd have a hard time imagining 980m being significantly cheaper than a 970. but prices might be different where you are from.

External DAC is deffinetly the way to go for better audio quality. your "performance" gain is heavily gonna depend on how good your onboard audio is. Personally im using a 140 USD DAC but that's clearly not an option for U. But for audio performance for the money External DAC beats internal PCI card basically everytime. for me it made a big difference but my internal audio was deffinetly not perfect either and my headphones are alot harder to drive.

Running 4 drives in RAID 0 is a terrible idea. the risk of error get extremly big. for each disk you add to a raid 0 aray you multiply the risk of whole array failure. CUDA_Cores suggestion is a much better option than your thought of raid 10 array. Also what are you reading and writing so much that it's worth the risk of raid for trying to achieve this bump in speeds from raid?. if it's just for snappier system performance i would deffinetly go with NVME for system maybe add a bit of SSD for bulk and use HDD for backup. TL:DR. CUDA_Cores is right

Yeah that should fine as long as you don't run a big overclock the GPU. (or more importantly not a big overvoltage) :https://outervision.com/b/fTpIy1 if you run a good overclock including overvoltage and an AIO plus some extra fans then i would deffinetly upgrade note that this is with a very high overclock :https://outervision.com/b/8YHU1Y But play around with it add in all periherals. and look at. what you can do in my opinion if you are trying to hold of the PSU purchase and get most possible gaming performance is to dial back the CPU OC and then put in a decen GPU OC instead. but if you wanna run both overclocked both for the sake of your ears and the sake of your PSU i would get an 750-850W instead. there is some hardware degradation over time and the performance of your PSU will decrease over time but you have a PSU from a reputable brand and. it should be just fine for now.

I'll just bump this thread as i'm dealing with the same issue

the new razer blade it would be sweet to use that for my engineering studies instead of my 5 year old chunky dell and then i could play the sweet games on it