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So about a year ago I purchased the GTX 1070 Ti. When it came, I realised that it needed one single 8 pin pcie which my old psu didnt have. So having just bought a graphics card I didn't have much to spend and so went with this power supply https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Artic-750W-Black-ATX-Gaming-PC-6-2Pin-PCIe-PSU-Power-Supply-120mm-Blue/192754332959?epid=10026964137&hash=item2ce10db51f:g:GboAAOSwnh5cDtHf . At that time I didnt really know about PSUs and how important they were but now I have understood how important they are. Its been over a year and I have have upgraded my cpu, mobo and case to a more expensive one. Rig: GTX 1070Ti (no oc), Ryzen 5 3600(oc to 4ghz and 1.375v) , B450 TOMAHAWK with 5 Fans connected and Vengeance Pro RGB 2x8GB 3200MHZ RAM. Now the only component that has not been upgraded is the PSU. From what I know, the PSU I currently have has 32A on the 12V single rail which means the watts the rail provides is 384W. According to online sites, the minimum my pc needs is 390W. Then I used some application to check the voltage on my direct rail as I was confused as to how my pc was working and it turns out my single rail voltage was at 12.56V. This got me worried as a few months before I knew this, I was OCing my GPU to like +169mhz on core clock and +420mhz on memory with voltage cranked to +20% which could have fried my PSU. So now I don't oc the gpu and have overclocked my cpu by only a little. I am thinking of getting https://www.ebuyer.com/856009-thermaltake-litepower-650w-80-plus-psu-ps-ltp-0650npcn-uk-2 for Christmas (I have no pocket money at the moment so cant upgrade now). Do you think this PSU will suffice?

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Throw that firebrick awa. Buy something like a Corsair RM550x or be quiet straight power 10/11.

 

550w psu is all you’ll need 

 

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While you can't trust software voltage readings, that PSU is undoubtedly junk. There's a reason it's 1/3rd the cost of normal 750W PSUs.
"Artic" Jeeze, it can't even spell its own name correctly. Did they get charged by the letter for the logo design?
 

22 minutes ago, SRBUZZ242 said:

Better than the PSU you currently have, but not by much. You'd just be wasting your money buying another junk PSU.

 

You really need to spend more than 30 pounds on a PSU if you expect to get anything that isn't junk. However, that doesn't mean you need to spend more than 100 pounds either. For a Ryzen 3600 + GTX 1070 Ti I'd look at something like one of these.

Corsair TX550M

Bitfenix Formula Gold 550W

CPU: Intel i7 6700k  | Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170x Gaming 5 | RAM: 2x16GB 3000MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX | GPU: Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080ti | PSU: Corsair RM750x (2018) | Case: BeQuiet SilentBase 800 | Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34 eSports | SSD: Samsung 970 Evo 500GB + Samsung 840 500GB + Crucial MX500 2TB | Monitor: Acer Predator XB271HU + Samsung BX2450

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