Bitfenix Formula 550w vs 650w

[Whiro]

So I’m planning to get new psu for my ancient system, now my question, is it worth paying extra £7 (yes £7) for 650w ?? My specs are in the signature, just gonna add that I’m oc both cpu and gpu quite heavily plus want quiet system (doing custom waterloop)

[Bombastinator]

18 minutes ago, Whiro said:

So I’m planning to get new psu for my ancient system, now my question, is it worth paying extra £7 (yes £7) for 650w ?? My specs are in the signature, just gonna add that I’m oc both cpu and gpu quite heavily plus want quiet system (doing custom waterloop)

Uffda. 7£.  Thing is it’s a 970.  they don’t pull many watts.  I’ll say yes only because I think you will pull it and upgrade it.  I don’t think you think you will.  But I think you will.
 

 

Dunno why anyone would watercool a 970 unless maybe they already had a water block that fit only it.  A 970 is weaker than a 580.  It’s a 3.5gb card and it’s not even a fast one.  The only cool thing about it is it’s the last Nvidia card that did native analog.  A 980ti I get.  A 970 I don’t. 

[Whiro]

10 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Dunno why anyone would watercool a 970

Because I’m loving this card haha 

Tbh I found really cheap waterblock for the card so why not.

I’m not playing enough to justify buying new system but always wanted to play with water cooling.

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, Whiro said:

Because I’m loving this card haha 

Tbh I found really cheap waterblock for the card so why not.

I’m not playing enough to justify buying new system but always wanted to play with water cooling.

That’s actually a fairly good reason.  I keep forgetting “just to mess about with it” is not only a good reason around here but a not unusual one.  I still say go for the bigger PSU on the grounds that something else is liable to catch your eye and it will be more useful.  Too much power won’t hurt anything.

[Whiro]

1 minute ago, Bombastinator said:

That’s actually a fairly good reason.  I keep forgetting “just to mess about with it” is not only a good reason around here but a not unusual one.  I still say go for the bigger PSU on the grounds that something else is liable to catch your eye and it will be more useful.  Too much power won’t hurt anything.

That’s what I thought, especially that the price difference is sooo small (less than pack of cigarettes ) thx buddy