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Hi! just wanted to ask everyone here who knows a thing or two about power supplies. I currently have a x570 asus motherboard and a 750W thermaltake powersupply. However when i looked at my parts in pcpartspicker, it mentioned that there could be compatibility issues mainly due to the x570 requiring 12 pins as compared to my power supply only having a 4+4. Should I be worried about this or not. Thank you. (I have no plans on overclocking at all)
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Oh I see... I've read about that the 8pins are enough because one set of 8 pins can give 384W (somewhere around this value)
Is the 384W the max handling for the whole motherboard (including the other parts?)
Considering my specs
Ryzen 7 3700xx570 asus tuf gaming wifi
3600 mhz 16gb ram
gtx 960 (or even if I do upgrade it in the future,)
1. can the smart handle this already? (cuz if it can, I won't consider finding a different power supply since what I have should be enough)
2. I don't plan on overclocking anything at all. if ever, i'd probably just maximize the 3600mhz ram I have (im not sure if this is considered as overclocking -
the 384w mentioned is only going to the CPU, the rest goes via the 24 pin on the motherboard.
the main issue with smart is that it regulates 12v and 5v together, which I wrote a post about here:
wattage wise you'll be able to do it with a 550-650 totally fine, the focus would be a good example, but of course not your only option