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That is very impressive.

Changing out the PSU is typically quite simple. You start by unplugging and removing all the power cables (24 pin, EPS CPU, PCIe, SATA, ect.) from the system. You may have to remove a case fan or two to unplug the CPU power cable. Then take out the four screws that hold the PSU in place and remove the PSU. You'll find these screws on the same side as the PSU's switch. Now reverse the process to install the new PSU. It may get more complicated in a small form factor case. IMPORTANT: Cables from one PSU are unlikely to be compatiable with another PSU. Never use PSU cables with any PSU other that isn't the one they came with, unless you have triple checked that the cables are compatiable.

My concern is that GPUs often experiance momentary spikes in power draw. This is apparently less of an issue on the newer 40 series cards than it was on 30 series cards but I still have concerns. Tbf, the PSU should protect your hardware if it turns out that 650W wasn't enough, so I guess you could just try the 650W and see how it goes. But I'd 750W now instead of having to make two seperate upgrades.

@Tegneren @PDifolco I always find it easier to just scroll down to the cable list The PSU has enough PCIe 6+2 cables, but I'd still be concerned that a 650W PSU wouldn't be powerful to run a 4080 Super. I my opinion OP should get a 750 or 850W PSU (depending on their other hardware).

@Ricodotsh I think a 650W PSU may be insufficent (even if you have enough cables), in terms of power capacity, for use with a 4080 Super. Using a 4080 Super with a 650W PSU means there is a chance that you'll trip the overcurrent protection on the PSU during heavy load causing the machine to suddenly turn off. You probably want a 750W or 850W PSU (depending on your other hardware). What CPU, Motherboard, other components, ect. do you have? (need this to estimate power usage)

I didn't feel any of the above explainations were complete, so I'm adding this: When a manufacture makes a HDD or SSD they measure its capacity in Terabytes (TB), but Windows measures drive capacity in Tibibytes (This is usually written TiB, but for some reason windows writes it as TB which is why there is always confusion on this topic). The difference between Terabytes and Tibibytes is they use different prefix systems. Prefixs like Kilo, Mega, Giga and Tera are Decimal prefixs and therefore you multiply or divide by 1000 to move between them, so 1000 Bytes is a KB, 1000KB is a MB and so on. However, Prefixs like Kibi, Mebi, Gibi and Tebi are Binary prefixs and therefore you multiply or divide by 2^10 (or 1024) to move between them, so 1024 Bytes is a KiB, 1024KiB is a MiB and so on. Because of this a TB is 1,000,000,000,000 Bytes while a TiB is 1,099,511,627,776 Bytes (almost 10% larger). The effects that the above has are as follows: Here is the capacity information of the WD SN740 SSD in my laptop. In total it stores 2,047,720,046,592 Bytes which is actually about 2% more than the 2TB (2*1000^4 or 2,000,000,000,000 Bytes) the drive manufacture said the drive would have. However, windows measures the drive in Tibibytes and 2TiB would be 2*1024^4 or 2,199,023,255,552 Bytes. Clearly while the drive has more than 2TB, it has less than 2TiB. To get the 1.86 figure, Windows does 2,047,720,046,592 divided by 1024^4 which gets 1.86(23.....) TiB.

Does anyone have any tools for Cage Nut Insertion/Removal that they specifically recommend? (shopping in the UK)

that's fair, what are the games he's looking to play?

looks to me like my advise is a bit out of date, that said, looking through I'd still take the 1080Ti if the OP is playing triple A titles, as there are plenty of games using more than 8GB vram at max settings even at 1080p.

"it crashes" or "it instantly shuts off"... I assume you meant the latter, but if it is the former I'd suspect a software issue. Well, look you could go out and get a 1500W PSU to guarantee that in every case you'll never need to upgrade again... but that isn't sensiable. Given the kind of hardware you are buying, you won't need more than a 850W to get by for the lifetime of a PSU (a good 650 or 750 would run your current machine imo).

What is your current PSU? if it were actually underpowered for the machine, you'd be experiencing sudden shutdowns. If your machine isn't doing this you probably shouldn't upgrade the PSU.

You could get a used 1080 Ti for this money which would be a much better card and net you an extra 3GB of Vram.

Okay, what games specifically? When you say the "The 201$ psu is from neweggs “builder flash sale”" do you actually mean that your getting the board, memory, storage, case and PSU for $201?

very good point @sarve this matters cause a 12400F can't provide a graphical output and therefore the system will require a GPU.

Okay, so the issues... 1) You've given no budget, usecase or location. We need to know these things to advise you any sense. 2) There is no motherboard listed here, so no way to tell if it all really fits together any sense. 3) A 550W PSU is very limiting 4) You likely want to consider all your parts at the same time to get the best deal.

My guess is they are not showcased cause they are just standard. I suggest ordering one on Amazon or whatever and trying it out. From what I remember they are also ubiquitous in France and Italy.

I just bought a B550 Taichi exactly because it has a second PCI-E x16 slot (that runs at x8) Just as average nerd points out: I need it connect a HBA card in my NAS (allows you to connect up a ton of HDDs). My main machine also has the same feature and my plan is to install 10Gbe at a later date. I think I will be using 3 PCIe slots in all 3 of my machines very soon. My main: GPU (x16), 10Gbe card (tba) (x4), TV Tuner card (x1) My NAS: GPU (x16), 10Gbe card (currently 2.5Gbe) (x4), HBA (x8) My second machine: GPU (x16), Capture Card (x4), 2.5Gbe card (x1)

In the UK they are on all of them (afaik)

Stop giving these companies ideas...

fair point, message updated

An 850W PSU would be sufficent for a 4070ti super, but depending on your other components you might not even need that. Also, you don't need the PSU to have a 12vhpwr adapter, as GPUs currently come with PCIe6+2 to 12vhpwr adapters. If you CPU is a 5600 or similar I expect you could get away with a good 800W, maybe even a 750W.

I'm looking to upgrade the connection between my NAS and PC to 10 Gb ethernet. To keep the costs of this project down, I'm looking on the used market. However, the NICs available at good prices on the used market all seem to have SFP ports, instead of RJ45 ports, and I don't have any experiance with SFP yet. To start, I heard somewhere that SFP module/transciever compatability was a minefield, with modules only be compatable with NICs made by the same company. Is this true? The NIC that had caught my eye was a Mellanox MCX311A-XCAT CX311A. Is there any way I could find a list of compatiable SPF modules/transcievers? A RJ45 module would be ideal as the cheap switches use RJ45. Anyone know if such a NIC would be compatiable with TrueNAS (or would I need to do extra work to get it working)?

Can I ask what your hoping to achieve with this arrangement?

Case fans need to be connected to the motherboard. There should be 2 wires coming out of them. One for fan control and one for RGB control. Make sure both are connected. As for the front RGB, check for any unplugged front panel connectors.

Okay, so I've gone away and done some looking at SAS expanders and I came accross this: https://www.bargainhardware.co.uk/hp-727251-b21-12g-sas-expander-pcie-x8-fh-g9-g10-876907-001 A few google searches suggests that it should be compatiable with my LSI 9207-8i and that it should work just fine in a PCIe x1 slot as the PCIe x8 connector is only used for power draw (other options that came up were molex or sata powered PCIe risers). In order to connect it up to the previously mentioned Chassis (I looked at chassises with inbuilt SAS expanders but they were super expensive), I'm looking at buying 6 SFF-8643 to SFF-8087 cables and 2 SFF-8087 to SFF-8087 cables. Anyone have any extra information for me on this subject?