Help picking out 450-550w psu

[fnkmstr]

I'm building a ryzen 5 2600, gtx 1060 system, plan on overclocking a bit. Turns out picking out a psu is a complicated issue.

Not sure if I should go 450 or 550w.

I'm in Europe and I picked out a couple units that are available to me and are considered good or not so good:

 

Fsp hexa 85+ 550w - 57€

Seasonic s12 520w - 60€

Coolermaster masterwatt 550w - 70€

Corsair cx550 / cx550m - 70€ / 73€

Be quiet pure-power 10 500w cm - 76€

Cougar gaming gxf 550w - 76€

Bitfenix formula 550w - 80€

 

Coolermaster masterwatt 450w - 58€

Corsair cx450 / cx450m - 60€ / 66€

Super flower platinum king 450w - 73€

Seasonic focus gold 450w - 80€

 

What would be considered best value for the money?

 

[seon123]

Either the GX-F or the CX450. Although you could also check the price for the Pure Power 10/11 400W

[fnkmstr]

Both Pure Power 10 and 11 400w are around 56€. But 400w sounds like its cutting it too close. Some of those PSU calculators are suggesting around 380w load wattage

[seon123]

8 minutes ago, fnkmstr said:

Both Pure Power 10 and 11 400w are around 56€. But 400w sounds like its cutting it too close. Some of those PSU calculators are suggesting around 380w load wattage

PSU calculators overestimate by a ton. With a 1060, you'll draw closer to 200W when gaming. 400W is absolutely plenty. 

[LukeSavenije]

9 minutes ago, fnkmstr said:

Both Pure Power 10 and 11 400w are around 56€. But 400w sounds like its cutting it too close. Some of those PSU calculators are suggesting around 380w load wattage

calculators are bullshit. on 400 i could run my own system...

 

tho that does sound like a good price for it

[fnkmstr]

Would this be considered a good buy compared to CX or Pure Power 10/11?

Bitfenix Formula Gold 450w - 65€

 

[seon123]

9 minutes ago, fnkmstr said:

Would this be considered a good buy compared to CX or Pure Power 10/11?

Bitfenix Formula Gold 450w - 65€

 

Yes, very. 

[Stefan Payne]

4 hours ago, fnkmstr said:

1. Fsp hexa 85+ 550w - 57€
2. Seasonic s12 520w - 60€
3. Coolermaster masterwatt 550w - 70€
4. Corsair cx550 / cx550m - 70€ / 73€
5. Be quiet pure-power 10 500w cm - 76€
6. Cougar gaming gxf 550w - 76€
7. Bitfenix formula 550w - 80€
    
8. Coolermaster masterwatt 450w - 58€
9. Corsair cx450 / cx450m - 60€ / 66€
10. Super flower platinum king 450w - 73€
11. Seasonic focus gold 450w - 80€

 

What would be considered best value for the money?

 

1. Not really
2. ABSOLUTELY NOT! Its the worst of the bunch
3. naa, not really. Its OKish, but I have my beef with it (the Semi Fanless mode for example)
4. somewhat OK, non CM to be prefered
5. good choice
6. best choice, though warranty might be limited to a bit of your money back, if you're lucky
7. Best choice, if you don't want to use ultra high end GPUs like VEGA, x080ti, or something like that.
    
8. nope, same as 550W just with 100W Less (I think
9. see 3
10. Its decent, simple sleeve fan and on the louder side (in Idle), thus for the price not interesting
11. I don't like Seasonic for various reasons...

So the best one would be the Bitfenix Formula and Cougar GX-F.

Cougar has the disadvantage that no representation of Cougar in Europe no more. So not much Warranty, sadly. Though out of that bunch, its my preferred one especially since I really tortured my GX-F with my new VEGA64 Card and though I think it might have some whining, it ran without issues.

[Stefan Payne]

4 hours ago, fnkmstr said:

Both Pure Power 10 and 11 400w are around 56€. But 400w sounds like its cutting it too close. 

Are you overclocking without any regards for the Hardware?

Are you planning something like VEGA64?? Or other Highest End GPUs??

With a normal mid range Card like RX480 or something like that and a reasonable CPU like Ryzen 7/1700x you're way under 400W.

[fnkmstr]

8 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

Are you overclocking without any regards for the Hardware?

Are you planning something like VEGA64?? Or other Highest End GPUs??

With a normal mid range Card like RX480 or something like that and a reasonable CPU like Ryzen 7/1700x you're way under 400W.

Thanks for the detailed response.

I narrowed it down to Formula Gold 450w and Pure Power 11 500w, basically the same price but Pure Power 11 has a 3yr warranty vs 5yr on Formula. Should I go for longer warranty or more wattage for future upgradeability?

 

8 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

Are you overclocking without any regards for the Hardware?

Are you planning something like VEGA64?? Or other Highest End GPUs??

With a normal mid range Card like RX480 or something like that and a reasonable CPU like Ryzen 7/1700x you're way under 400W.

I plan on running r5 2600 on 4.0/4.1ghz if possible, probably gonna oc the 1060 aswell, tho I mostly play cpu intensive games. Probably upgrading to 1070ti/2060 once/if needed.

[seon123]

9 minutes ago, fnkmstr said:

I narrowed it down to Formula Gold 450w and Pure Power 11 500w, basically the same price but Pure Power 11 has a 3yr warranty vs 5yr on Formula. Should I go for longer warranty or more wattage for future upgradeability?

The Formula, because it's a better, higher end PSU. What can you power with a 500W, that you can't with a 450W?

[Stefan Payne]

7 hours ago, fnkmstr said:

Thanks for the detailed response.

I narrowed it down to Formula Gold 450w and Pure Power 11 500w, basically the same price but Pure Power 11 has a 3yr warranty vs 5yr on Formula. Should I go for longer warranty or more wattage for future upgradeability?

That is not correct.

Both have 5 Year.

https://www.bequiet.com/en/powersupply/pure-power-11/1532

 

In the end, both are good, the Pure Power is slightly quieter (not much, hardly noticable).

 

7 hours ago, fnkmstr said:

I plan on running r5 2600 on 4.0/4.1ghz if possible, probably gonna oc the 1060 aswell, tho I mostly play cpu intensive games. Probably upgrading to 1070ti/2060 once/if needed.

no problem with either unit.