1000w psu overkill

[TomR19]

Guys there was an old thread about 1000w overkill. I need your advice on my situation thats relevant to this topic. Im looking to upgrade my gpu and the one im getting recommends 650w psu. Mine is 550w. 

What if the 1000w psu is 80plus gold certified and is on offer at a lower price than other 650w 80plus bronze PSUs??? Is it worth than going for the 1000w psu??? In the store I use i found a good brand 1000w 80plus gold rated psu on discounted from 120 to 69. There was also a 650w 80plus bronze from 100 to 89 discount. Wwyd? Advice please?

[minibois]

1 minute ago, TomR19 said:

Guys there was an old thread about 1000w overkill. I need your advice on my situation thats relevant to this topic. Im looking to upgrade my gpu and the one im getting recommends 650w psu. Mine is 550w. 

What if the 1000w psu is 80plus gold certified and is on offer at a lower price than other 650w 80plus bronze PSUs??? Is it worth than going for the 1000w psu??? In the store I use i found a good brand 1000w 80plus gold rated psu on discounted from 120 to 69. There was also a 650w 80plus bronze from 100 to 89 discount. Wwyd? Advice please?

What parts do you have, that you should upgrade from 550W to 650W?

And what is the specific 1000W and 650W PSU's you're looking at?

 

There are good 1000W PSU's and bad 1000W PSU's. (same for good/bad 650W PSU's).

[Slottr]

If there's a 1000W power supply thats less money than a decent 650w unit, it's probably a bomb in disguise

[SavageNeo]

550w is enough for gpu's meant for gaming.

[Fasauceome]

you should list your PC specs so that we can actually see if your 550 watt PSU is something to worry about.

[Boomwebsearch]

3 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

550w is enough for gpu's meant for gaming.

 

Depends on how much power the other components take (besides the GPU) as well including CPU, CPU cooler, motherboard, case fan/s, keyboards, mice, headsets, thumb drives, PCIe expansion cards, etc. And getting close to the very minimum that you need for now doesn't give you much room for future component upgrades.

[TomR19]

!Asus b450f rog strix motherboard 

Ryzen 2600 cpu

M.2 sata ssd 250gb wd

M.2 nvme 500gb samsung

3.5inch 1tb Seagate sata hdd

2.5inch 2tb sshd seagate hibryd drive

Corsair Cw550 psu

Msi armor rtx 2070 gpu upgrading to AMD gigabyte or asus rx 5700 xt both specs say (minimum recommended pau 650w)

 

 

[Deli]

26 minutes ago, TomR19 said:

!Asus b450f rog strix motherboard 

Ryzen 2600 cpu

M.2 sata ssd 250gb wd

M.2 nvme 500gb samsung

3.5inch 1tb Seagate sata hdd

2.5inch 2tb sshd seagate hibryd drive

Corsair Cw550 psu

Msi armor rtx 2070 gpu upgrading to AMD gigabyte or asus rx 5700 xt both specs say (minimum recommended pau 650w)

 

 

How many watt 2070 or 5700XT can draw? ~200w.

How many Ryzen 5 2600 can draw? ~100-120w when overclock

How many watt a 3.5" HDD can draw? 10-12w normal, or 20w when start up.

How many watt an NVMe SSD can draw? 4-5W

 

How often all components go to max load at the same time? Almost never. I doubt at any time your PC will draw more than 400w.

 

Any PSU more than 650w is unnecessary for your set up.

[TomR19]

On 4/28/2020 at 6:08 PM, Deli said:

How many watt 2070 or 5700XT can draw? ~200w.

How many Ryzen 5 2600 can draw? ~100-120w when overclock

How many watt a 3.5" HDD can draw? 10-12w normal, or 20w when start up.

How many watt an NVMe SSD can draw? 4-5W

 

How often all components go to max load at the same time? Almost never. I doubt at any time your PC will draw more than 400w.

 

Any PSU more than 650w is unnecessary for your set up.

In the product specifications it said minimum psu 650w (is that just the retailer trying to get ppl to upgrade) for profit when its not even necessary.

[TomR19]

I took your advice and disregarded the call for psu upgrade.

Big day came finally. It came down to 2 choices. 

GTX 1660 ti (BANG FOR BUCK OPTION)

GIGABYTE RX 5700 XT (more spent FOR THE POWER) In a Gamers Nexus roundup they praised the shit out of this card.

I went with the latter. 

I am a bit worried about the rumours of bugs and game crashes, but I heard with latest drivers things are getting fixed.

what are your thoughts guys? Did I make the right decision?

 

 

 

PS: In the photos below I just went to the order page on the "1660 TI" to get full price including shipping. But obviously I did not complete order. Spent an extra 115.06

 

 

[Gaires]

8 minutes ago, TomR19 said:

I am a bit worried about the rumours of bugs and game crashes, but I heard with latest drivers things are getting fixed.

what are your thoughts guys? Did I make the right decision?

I've had 5700xt since December and only have had 2 black screens during that time.

 

There are of course people with problems still, but hopefully AMD will fix more and more of the bugs now that they've released all the new features.

[TomR19]

2 minutes ago, Gaires said:

I've had 5700xt since December and only have had 2 black screens during that time.

 

There are of course people with problems still, but hopefully AMD will fix more and more of the bugs now that they've released all the new features.

Thanks man. Bit relieved. How is the performance? Are you gaming high res or high FPS?

[Gaires]

3 hours ago, TomR19 said:

Thanks man. Bit relieved. How is the performance? Are you gaming high res or high FPS?

I'm playing on 1440p monitor, but haven't played a lot of demanding games yet.

But the drivers say my average fps on Final Fantasy 15 is 72 fps. I'm running the game 1440p everything on highest, nvidia stuff turned off.

Csgo gets 350fps 1440p low-medium settings.

[TomR19]

7 hours ago, Gaires said:

I'm playing on 1440p monitor, but haven't played a lot of demanding games yet.

But the drivers say my average fps on Final Fantasy 15 is 72 fps. I'm running the game 1440p everything on highest, nvidia stuff turned off.

Csgo gets 350fps 1440p low-medium settings.

Nice It's coming tomorrow. I'm moving over from NVIDIA so I'm gonna have to do a driver wipe is safe mode.