best gpu for psu

[hollyh88]

So i want to know as the title says which gpu can be paired with the following PSU: 
 Seasonic Focus Plus Gold 850W PSU

I was originally going to buy a 750w of the same brand and model. but then i saw that the 850w was on a sale  pretty lucky find in my opinion.
something i can have that will last me a good while since my current one is a shitfest of an old psu lol. (coolermaster gm g550m)

what is the max i can go with this psu? and do you think it will last a good long time for future high end gpu's as well? 

I was personally debating a 2070 super or 2080 but which gpu would really be better for such a psu? 

I haven't really learned anything much on psu's in my it education. only the basic stuff and label crap. my school thought it was more educational to teach us about motherboards and cpu's and gpu's on the hardware side of things. 

[Zando_]

Wouldn't get the Focus Gold, the higher wattage units are kinda useless. They have issues with high power draw hardware, so it's silly to get an 850W to run any hardware around if it just overheats or shuts down under load. Are there any other options in the same price range? 

[Slottr]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

Wouldn't get the Focus Gold, the higher wattage units are kinda useless. They have issues with high power draw hardware, so it's silly to get an 850W to run any hardware around if it just overheats or shuts down under load. Are there any other options in the same price range? 

I think they already own the focus unit 

[Fasauceome]

Instead you can get a Bitfenix formula gold 550 or 650 and get any graphics card you want. 2080 ti? sure! If you're still in the return period you should consider sending it back.

[Zando_]

4 minutes ago, Slottr said:

I think they already own the focus unit 

OP said they owned a coolermaster unit, I assume they're looking at ordering a Focus Gold or just did, in which case I'd return it like @Fasauceome recommended. 

[hollyh88]

37 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Wouldn't get the Focus Gold, the higher wattage units are kinda useless. They have issues with high power draw hardware, so it's silly to get an 850W to run any hardware around if it just overheats or shuts down under load. Are there any other options in the same price range? 

why would such a thing overheat if i have a 2600x and currently a 1070 on it? or well will have on it. yes i bought it. but.. is it that bad? and why would that series be so bad? linus does always ad for seasonic. 

[Zando_]

4 minutes ago, hollyh88 said:

why would such a thing overheat if i have a 2600x and currently a 1070 on it? or well will have on it. yes i bought it. but.. is it that bad? and why would that series be so bad? linus does always ad for seasonic. 

Seasonic is the brand, they have excellent PSUs and shit ones, same as any other brand. The Focus series has issues with the over current protection IIRC, if you put something power hungry on it like a Vega card or anything the older models just shut down, the newer ones overheat. It probably won't do that with a 2600X and 1070, but PSUs last for years. What happens if you decide to go for a hungrier hardware combo in the future? 

[hollyh88]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

Seasonic is the brand, they have excellent PSUs and shit ones, same as any other brand. The Focus series has issues with the over current protection IIRC, if you put something power hungry on it like a Vega card or anything the older models just shut down, the newer ones overheat. It probably won't do that with a 2600X and 1070, but PSUs last for years. What happens if you decide to go for a hungrier hardware combo in the future? 

will it affect at most a 3600x and 2070 super? 

i personally wouldnt go the highest of highs. i just wanted to have a psu that has enough wattage to keep me up for some years of upgrades. I will never have a 2080ti or any 80ti series. neither will i get an power hungry amd card. or high end intel cpu. 

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, hollyh88 said:

will it affect at most a 3600x and 2070 super? 

i personally wouldnt go the highest of highs. i just wanted to have a psu that has enough wattage to keep me up for some years of upgrades. I will never have a 2080ti or any 80ti series. neither will i get an power hungry amd card. or high end intel cpu. 

Even a 2080 Ti will do fine on a 550W PSU (it's a 250W card like the 1080 Ti, my 1080 Ti at max power target with a very power hungry overclocked Xeon only pulled 553W under the most brutal torture testing). Having 850W on that PSU is useless, since if you run any hardware that actually pulls close to that it'll shut down or overheat. It's just not trustworthy, if you can return it I'd do that and get a solid 550W or 650W unit. 

[hollyh88]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

Even a 2080 Ti will do fine on a 550W PSU (it's a 250W card like the 1080 Ti, my 1080 Ti at max power target with a very power hungry overclocked Xeon only pulled 553W under the most brutal torture testing). Having 850W on that PSU is useless, since if you run any hardware that actually pulls close to that it'll shut down or overheat. It's just not trustworthy, if you can return it I'd do that and get a solid 550W or 650W unit. 

so it is a good psu untill i hit 850 watt? 

[Zando_]

2 minutes ago, hollyh88 said:

so it is a good psu untill i hit 850 watt? 

From what I'm reading it's a good PSU until anything has a high wattage spike for a couple milliseconds or you put it under a high load for a good amount of time. 

Apparently their support is excellent though, peeps had their rigs trip OCP repeatedly and Seasonic hooked them up with higher wattage units to give them more overhead. Those are mostly really power hungry systems though, so long as you avoid anything with high spikes like the Vega cards you should be fine. 

 

(good thread with a discussion of the advantages and issues with this PSU and some hardware combos: https://hardforum.com/threads/anandtech-the-seasonic-focus-plus-gold-750fx-750w-psu-review-seasonic-quality-at-mainstream-prices.1981675/)

 

 

[hollyh88]

6 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

From what I'm reading it's a good PSU until anything has a high wattage spike for a couple milliseconds or you put it under a high load for a good amount of time. 

Apparently their support is excellent though, peeps had their rigs trip OCP repeatedly and Seasonic hooked them up with higher wattage units to give them more overhead. Those are mostly really power hungry systems though, so long as you avoid anything with high spikes like the Vega cards you should be fine. 

 

(good thread with a discussion of the advantages and issues with this PSU and some hardware combos: https://hardforum.com/threads/anandtech-the-seasonic-focus-plus-gold-750fx-750w-psu-review-seasonic-quality-at-mainstream-prices.1981675/)

 

 

ahh okey that's good  yeah i think i will stick with the mid range 70 series of nvidia. so i should never have high wattage spikes. so i think i'm safe for years to come

after putting my old parts into the new case and stuff on wednesday it will look like this: