PSU help

[zaquedidit]

So I'm working on getting my parts together to build a home music studio PC/Hackintosh/light gaming rig. I've put together a parts list and PC part picker says it'll pull around 434W, I'm wondering how accurate that is.

 

Also I'm wondering if I got a 550W PSU if that would be enough and any reccomendations. I have to order through amazon and it's being shipped outside of the US

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[Haro]

What PSU have you ordered ? 

Yea 550 will be more than enough

Your system won't pull more then 300ish watts 

[Stahlmann]

PSU is fine. But for ~300 $ you could get a 10600K (if in stock) and a decent Z490 mobo for 200-250 $ which will perform better in any task.

[zaquedidit]

31 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

What PSU have you ordered ? 

Yea 550 will be more than enough

Your system won't pull more then 300ish watts 

I haven't ordered a psu as yet, I haven't ordered any parts I'm waiting to order them all at the same time. Is there any that you would recommend?

 

[Haro]

Just now, zaquedidit said:

I haven't ordered a psu as yet, I haven't ordered any parts I'm waiting to order them all at the same time. Is there any that you would recommend?

 

Tx550m

Rm550x

MWE gold 

Straight power 

Pure power 

Something cheaper 

Cx550 (grey label)

[zaquedidit]

25 minutes ago, Stahlmann98 said:

PSU is fine. But for ~300 $ you could get a 10600K (if in stock) and a decent Z490 mobo for 200-250 $ which will perform better in any task.

I'm working with a $1400 budget so going up wouldn't work out in that budget

[zaquedidit]

1 minute ago, TofuHaroto said:

Tx550m

Rm550x

MWE gold 

Straight power 

Pure power 

Something cheaper 

Cx550 (grey label)

Are these all brands? Sorry I'm new to the whole PC building thing

[Haro]

Just now, zaquedidit said:

Are these all brands? Sorry I'm new to the whole PC building thing

Brand has nothing to do with quality 

These are models

[Tan3l6]

2 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

Brand has nothing to do with quality 

Yeh, most brands don't manufacture their own PSU-s only order them form fatcories that produce many product lines to many different "brands" 

Life is like a box of chocolates - you have to do a thorough investigation as to what is and what isn't a decent PSU.

[Stahlmann]

13 minutes ago, zaquedidit said:

I'm working with a $1400 budget so going up wouldn't work out in that budget

I'm not talking about going up in price, it will cost less while performing much better. For your budget you're overspending on your mobo anyways.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i5-10600KF 4.1 GHz 6-Core Processor	$277.50 @ B&H
Motherboard	MSI Z490-A PRO ATX LGA1200 Motherboard	$150.98 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$438.48
	Mail-in rebates	-$10.00
	Total	$428.48
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-06-17 09:23 EDT-0400

 

EDIT: With this mobo you can easily do an all-core OC to 5.0GHz if your cooler allows it.

[zaquedidit]

2 minutes ago, Stahlmann98 said:

I'm not talking about going up in price, it will cost less while performing much better. For your budget you're overspending on your mobo anyways.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i5-10600KF 4.1 GHz 6-Core Processor	$277.50 @ B&H
Motherboard	MSI Z490-A PRO ATX LGA1200 Motherboard	$150.98 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$438.48
	Mail-in rebates	-$10.00
	Total	$428.48
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-06-17 09:23 EDT-0400

 

EDIT: With this mobo you can easily do an all-core OC to 5.0GHz if your cooler allows it.

From what I've read newegg doesn't accept international credit cards so I figured I'd just buy everything off of amazon instead, does that motherboard support thunderbolt/have thunderbolt connectivity? I'm just wondering because I know that the gigabyte can be fairly easy to build a hackintosh with and how much of a difference does it make between the brands? Is that i5 better than the i7 that I've chosen?

 

Sorry for all the questions I'm just super new to building computers and all this, I have a friend helping me but he's also very busy so I've been trying to research as much as possible.

[zaquedidit]

18 minutes ago, Tan3l6 said:

Yeh, most brands don't manufacture their own PSU-s only order them form fatcories that produce many product lines to many different "brands" 

Life is like a box of chocolates - you have to do a thorough investigation as to what is and what isn't a decent PSU.

Ohhh ok, i've seen people recommending sea sonic, corsair and EVGA. I guess they're just well known and trusted? 

[Tan3l6]

1 minute ago, zaquedidit said:

Ohhh ok, i've seen people recommending sea sonic, corsair and EVGA. I guess they're just well known and trusted? 

Yea well as brands they are mostly good, but the cheaper models are bad.

As stated before me - depends of model.

[Stahlmann]

1 minute ago, zaquedidit said:

From what I've read newegg doesn't accept international credit cards so I figured I'd just buy everything off of amazon instead, does that motherboard support thunderbolt/have thunderbolt connectivity? I'm just wondering because I know that the gigabyte can be fairly easy to build a hackintosh with and how much of a difference does it make between the brands? Is that i5 better than the i7 that I've chosen?

 

Sorry for all the questions I'm just super new to building computers and all this, I have a friend helping me but he's also very busy so I've been trying to research as much as possible.

Sorry don't know about thunderbolt, i've never used it myself and never looked out for it on any mobos.

 

The 10600KF also has 6 cores. i5 and i7 actually means nothing in terms of performance or core Count between generations. The 10600K will boost higher than the 8700K. Also the 10600KF supports Hyperthreading, which will help heaps in production workloads. In singe-core tasks it competes with Intels own 9900K.

[zaquedidit]

1 minute ago, Stahlmann98 said:

Sorry don't know about thunderbolt, i've never used it myself and never looked out for it on any mobos.

 

The 10600KF also has 6 cores. i5 and i7 actually means nothing in terms of performance or core Count between generations. The 10600K will boost higher than the 8700K. Also the 10600KF supports Hyperthreading, which will help heaps in production workloads. In singe-core tasks it competes with Intels own 9900K.

Ahhh ok I think I understand now, amazon doesnt have the 10600KF but they have a 9600k, would that be the same situation in terms of performing better than the original i7 I was looking at?

[Stahlmann]

1 minute ago, zaquedidit said:

Ahhh ok I think I understand now, amazon doesnt have the 10600KF but they have a 9600k, would that be the same situation in terms of performing better than the original i7 I was looking at?

The 9600K should be cheaper at 200-250 $ and with a bit of tuning should easily overclock to 5.0 GHz all-core and then outperform the 8700K. But in terms of productivity it still has the same problem by not having hyperthreading compared to the 10600K(F).

[zaquedidit]

9 minutes ago, Stahlmann98 said:

The 9600K should be cheaper at 200-250 $ and with a bit of tuning should easily overclock to 5.0 GHz all-core and then outperform the 8700K. But in terms of productivity it still has the same problem by not having hyperthreading compared to the 10600K(F).

After doing some research the programs that I use for music production actually recommend to turn hyper threading off when using them. With that being said what would you recommend in place of the 10600KF?

[Jeppes]

32 minutes ago, zaquedidit said:

After doing some research the programs that I use for music production actually recommend to turn hyper threading off when using them. With that being said what would you recommend in place of the 10600KF?

What kind of music production? Because Ive seen people buy the new mac pro or even new Threadripper systems for that. Those have a bit more than six threads available.

[zaquedidit]

2 minutes ago, Jeppes said:

What kind of music production? Because Ive seen people buy the new mac pro or even new Threadripper systems for that. Those have a bit more than six threads available.

I produce anything from hip-hop to afrobeat, to EDM, EDM takes up more processing power though due to the plugins that I have to use to get my sounds. I also record and mix music as well too.