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Anyone with experience will tell you, never skimp on the PSU. It's the beating heart of your machine. You may have heard of cheap PSU's frying and blowing up people's machines, but even if they don't, cheap PSU's can cause system instability, BSOD's, and wear down your hardware over time. Don't build a nice house on toothpicks. It's going to collapse at some point. ALWAYS have a budget for a halfway decent PSU, not just wattage or 80 Plus efficiency either. You should also scale your PSU budget with your build. High end builds should have high end PSU's (Platinum or Titanium, super name brand) This right here is $90 , a fantastic deal, and is insanely good / high quality. 10 year warranty and would last you multiple builds. Feed your computer fine nutrition, not junk food. https://www.newegg.com/seasonic-focus-plus-650-gold-ssr-650fx-650w/p/N82E16817151186

Be VERY...VERY careful putting in random aftermarket cables to a PSU. It must be exactly for that model...the EXACT model. If you use the wrong cable, you could fry your whole system. I always recommend Seasonic at the top of any list. They've been in the business since the 70's. Other brands buy a lot of their parts from them and repackage (EVGA comes to mind). I've never had a Seasonic fail. I've seen multiple Corsairs fail (1-2 years old, 750W Platinums). Anecdotal sure, but anyone will tell you Seasonic are one of the best in the business. Super high quality parts, fantastic long warranties, super clean power... all providing a stable and long lasting system. Their FOCUS and Prime line of PSU's are the most popular. I'd recommend 750W-850W GX or PX models for your build. You'll have the thing for 10+ years and multiple builds. https://seasonic.com/

I currently did a big computer upgrade in two phases. Almost everything is new but my PSU since I thought I could keep using it. I mainly use this as a workstation, gaming second, but after seeing power draw in benchmarks, I was a little concerned, especially the combo power draw with my CPU and GPU. When I do game, I'm doing 1440p /4K high refresh. Seasonic 750W Prime Platinum (still has about 8 years on the warranty) NO OVERCLOCKING Intel 14700K (coming from a 9940X 14-core OC'd 36%) Asus Z790 Creator 64GB 6400mhz (32GBx2) ASUS 4070Ti Pro Art All Noctua air cooling (NH-D15S and 3 case fans) 3 NVMe drives, (two Gen4) 1 SSD

Wow that's quite the comprehensive reply. I guess where I'm at is I use my system for Photoshop heavily with hundreds of layers in my files (easily filling 40-50GB of ram is I wanted). I also do occasional video editing, and of course.... gaming. I guess my hope is that going to a 14700K is going to have me FEEL it. I'm hoping just using Windows 11 / Photoshop / Premiere / Gaming... it's just going to stomp on my current setup. Granted, what I have is stable AF, but I know it's getting long in the tooth. At least on paper (benchmarks) I know the gap would be staggering, but numbers aren't always everything.

Interesting, one thing I forgot to mention is I AM overclocking at 36% from the motherboard, putting all cores at 4.1ghz, but I know that pales in comparison to modern gen chips.

Like the title says, I currently have a 9940X 14-core/28 threads, but it's Skylake-X architecture (2017 tech). I have a 4070Ti and play at 1440p and 4K 144hz depending on the game. From a real world standpoint, should I notice considerable gains upgrading to something like a 14700K? (rumored 20-core October 17th release) If we base it on something now, let's say a 13700K?

Yeah, aware it's QLC, but this is a storage drive that will be loaded with media and files with limited daily use. The P3 Plus is only $10 more for PCI-E Gen 4.0. I think that's worth it for something I plan to have 5-10 years.

That's why I planned to get two of them. I'm going through a core rebuild of my system (prepping for 14700K Pro Art Build) and I'm cutting all the fat out of my current system with years of old ssd's, an hdd, and a freaking optical drive lol. Will have almost all storage as NVMe on the mobo.

Ok thank you. I had a feeling it seemed to be overhyped. I understand DRAM being useful for an OS or project drive, but storage is much more forgiving. I've never had an SSD fail on me, and I'm hoping this one lasts a long LONG time. (aka a decade)

I was looking at a 4TB Crucial P3 Plus since they are at a really good price right now. I was planning to use it as a strict storage drive, housing videos, music, dumped files and will mostly just sit there. I've heard DRAM-less drives have lesser lifespans, but if it's used as a storage drive, will that be negligible? It will NOT be used as a scratch drive with constant read and writes going to it. Is this a safe idea, or do I seriously need to look at DRAM drives for this use case? 4TB Acer Predator drives are also at amazing deals WITH DRAM, but I don't know their longevity and reputations as SSD makers. (I usually get Samsung)

whoops you're right. My bad! Sorry about being misleading. I'll change it!

FYI... my CPU is from late 2018.... it's a 9040x (almost same exact chip as 7040x), 14-core / 28 thread, Skylake generation. EDIT: 9940X was the processor. I made a typo

Curious on thoughts about my situation. I'm actually on 7th gen Intel architecture (Skylake-X) with an HEDT CPU 9940x 14-core. I BARELY made the Windows 11 support cut. I'm on a 3070Ti graphics card but got thinking... any new video cards are going to start seriously getting bottlenecked. I have a gaming 4K 144hz monitor, but occasionally keep it at 1440 to reach 144fps at high settings in games I play. I also use Photoshop heavily with large projects and currently have 64GB of 3200 RAM. I'm definitely upgrading at some point, but am wondering if I'm wasting my time waiting for Arrow Lake. Meteor Lake is all but cancelled for desktop. Would a 13700K destroy what I have? Would that IPC uplift and DDR5 memory give me noticeable boosts across the board without even upgrading the GPU? Also, I'd like to stick to Intel since I need Thunderbolt support and the applications I use favor Intel, FYI.

Yeah, he checked the logs and nothing specific shows. Just random crash errors with little information. Not sure if he saw an Event ID 41 error. I can ask him.

Oh yeah, memtest was ran and found no issues. I'll add to my initial post. CPU's rarely go bad, but I feel when they do... they simply don't post at all. Would be strange if that was the case, but temps are actively monitored and are totally within safe levels (70-80C at load). I've seen issues where a board isn't getting the proper power, voltage to ram running XMP and being unstable. Manually boosting voltage can solve this, but we ran stock 2133mhz just to try and made no difference.