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The PSU wasn't damaged, but motherboard could. Not by using the tester, it's irrelevant, but by you using the cables incompatible with the PSU.

Sounds like ADATA wins then, it's a better unit.

If you use the DC cables from a different PSU with your new one, be it Seasonic, Corsair, EVGA, whatever. Then the blame is on the user, it's one of the simplest and most frequent user errors. Nothing to do with 'people on this forum'. By using the incompatible cables, the user likely just fried their hardware, so even if swapped to the right cables after, the PC wouldn't work either.

They have, or rather had four, actually. Also, this, from that page :

The 20AWG wires in PCIe and 103% OPP are more concerning. The increased noise level is to be expected really, given it's super compact design.

PCIe 5 also includes 3.2kW transients in the spec so most current production PSUs regardless of wattage may not be able to sustain that. IIRC @jonnyGURU said that they were testing this out, not sure if RM1000x passed. So there's that.

It kinda is and isn't. Almost the same as Bitfenix Whisper or Enermax Revolution DF but with three important differences. - DBB fan on some/most batches, so it will rustle at low RPMs - It doesn't have a semi-passive mode so it would rustle always (the version with DBB fan) - There's no 12V OCP on GPU connectors, so it's essentially a single-rail unit in that regard, despite being essentially advertised as multi-rail (because of what's on the rails distribution label). I'm torn between detiering it to tier A low priority or just moving to single-rail because of that. But otherwise it's a decent unit for the price it goes for as in everything else it's similar to the models i've mentioned above. Here's a review : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbyUI-J16BY LMAO, what made you believe that it's not exactly ? You afraid of cults ? We're harmless, i swear (until you say 'Seasonic is the best')

Run Process Hacker or Process Explorer, they both have a button on the toolbar you can find a process with just clicking on it's window with.

Yes, 850W is enough, even 750W is in most cases.

Yes.

A strange question to ask the man who essentially made the RMx Of course he does. But it's objectively better regardless of Jon's opinion. Flat 50°C ambient rating compared to deceptive 50°C at 80% load and derating to 40°C at 100% with Seasonic. 16AWG cables and high-current terminals compared to 18AWG and plain terminals with Seasonic. A more intelligent fan control due to the usage of an MCU in contrast with Seasonic PSUs. The only Seasonic made PSU that's at least on par with RM-x is EVGA G6. If you don't have that available and if you do - it's not cheaper than RMx then RMx is pretty much the go-to choice. Or RM if cheaper. And if you can return Antec without problems then that's definitely worth to do if you're not in hurry. But on the other hand, even with RTX3080, Antec would probably be fine, pre-2018 revisions shouldn't be encountered today and if you don't plan to mine on the GPU then it's good enough for occasional gaming usecase.

If you already got the PSU then just try it out. If it doesn't shutdown then it's fine. But it probably would, in that case you can just slightly power limit the card, you wouldn't lose much performance anyway. And it's not like sticking an RTX3090 in a build that needs an SFX PSU is a good idea to start with.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/2HbwrH/corsair-rmx-2018-650w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-cp-9020178-na https://pcpartpicker.com/product/gnGbt6/evga-supernova-g6-650-w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-220-g6-0650-x1 https://pcpartpicker.com/product/wmJkcf/bitfenix-whisper-m-750w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-bp-wg750umag-7fm

2021 has technically slightly better fan bearing but the warranty is the same so It doesn't matter. If anything, i would actually prefer RM (again, any version, 2019 or 2021) over them because of the lack of in-cable capacitors, especially if they're also cheaper. And please stop making new threads, if you want to ask another question, do it here, this would bump your thread up.

Or rather, a box of PSUs.

Higher wattage PSUs are harder to design, Seasonic is a relatively small company and apparently, good engineers don't last very long there, so they would need some time before they would be able to make a 1.5/1.6kW PSU, if ever.

How the GPU is connected ? A separate cable for each input on the GPU ? Have you tried to move the cables around to different sockets ?

Well, fair enough, there are of course more advanced and 'better' options than those i've mentioned above, and if you're ready to pay extra for them - why not, but personally i don't really see the point as those 80+ Gold options i've mentioned above are already very good. Anyway, have look at Corsair HX, Super Flower Leadex Platinum SE / EVGA P2 and maybe be quiet! Dark Power Pro 12 but it's too expensive IMO. There's also EVGA P6 but it can't really offer anything that EVGA G6 can't and for some reason is actually less quiet.

RM/RM-x are better, any version. MSI MPG A-GF is not bad per se, but i don't think it's a particularly good choice for a $1.5k GPU.

Neither really. EVGA G6 and Corsair RM-x are cheaper. The former is actually made by Seasonic too, so it's not like you 'lose' anything (even if i consider RM-x a bit better actually), better than pretty much anything else made by Seasonic currently. Seasonic Prime are overpriced and problematic. 850W is enough, 750W is too actually, but 1kW may make sense if you want to overprovision for the next-gen stuff, although that may not actually help, nothing is known about whether current PSUs would be able to handle even larger transients than Ampere currently have.

Please create your own thread with budget, country or the list of available online stores and your complete build specs. But overall probably Corsair RM-x or EVGA G6, or if you want something more high-end'ish then Corsair HX.

Can you start the PC right away or you have to cycle the PSU power switch ?

Is it an actual shutdown or a restart ? As in, does the PC start right right away by itself ?

Mind sharing for what exactly ?

First, these issues wouldn't cause capacitors failure. Second, they were fixed in post 2018 revisions of Seasonic Focus. Third, current revision Seasonic Prime has similar issues, so if anything, replacing your Focus with Prime would just potentially make things worse if you're planning to upgrade the GPU. And lastly, PSU efficiency doesn't really correlate with it's quality and overall performance, there are 80+ Gold PSUs that i'd recommend over some 80+ Platinum/Titanium any day, including Prime PX/TX.