Motherboard and powersupply future connectivity issues?

[Falcondor]

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Country: Slovenia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for:  Games (Rust, War Thunder, etc.)

Other details:

I'm not sure if the psu and the motherboard are completely compatible.

The psu:  COOLER MASTER MasterWatt Lite 700W 80Plus ATX (MPX-7001-ACABW-EU

The motherboard: ASUS PRIME X570-P, DDR4, SATA3, USB3.2Gen2, AM4 ATX

 

I'm worried because I checked pcpartpicker  where it states that the two parts aren't fully compatible. I pinned the text below. But the site I'm buying the psu and motherboard from hasn't listed any issues and the site claims that the psu has the additional 12v power connector as you can see on the other pinned image below.  So did I miss anything and they aren't fully compatible or is pcpartpicker wrong?

 

Any help is appreciated!

[jj9987]

The motherboard has 8pin and 4pin CPU power connectors. Unless you are doing really heavy overclocking, the 8pin is enough. 4pin is used for supplying extra current in those heavy OC situations.

 

For normal usage, not really necessary. The 8pin can supply plenty of power. So you're fine.

[mbntr]

Yes they are fully compatible, hell you can use a 16 year old PSU inside a modern PC.

Your motherboard has an additional connector that you don't really need unless you do some XOC.

My board has one too and you don't really need it, if you want to plug something in you can still use a PCIe to EPS 

[ProBottler]

The compatibality note stated that the mobo has 2 EPS headers: 1 full 8 pin and an extra 4 pin for extra power, while your psu only provides 1 8 pin EPS connector only.

Nevertheless, your system should still work with the single 8 pin connector, as the extra 4 pin one is due to AMD's presumption of how power hungry their cpu are which turns out they dont need all power from the 12 pins to be able to run 

[ProBottler]

Anyway, can I take a look at your list? @Falcondor

[Falcondor]

@ProBottler

The gpu isn't listed because its gonna be my old 1050ti   that I'm gonna use while im waiting for a good discount on the 2070 super

[ProBottler]

The PSU is my only criticization. You dont need 700w of power even if youre going to overclock your compoments. In my opinion you can get away with 650w, even 500-550w PSU

[owencrispy]

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9 minutes ago, Falcondor said:

@ProBottler

The gpu isn't listed because its gonna be my old 1050ti   that I'm gonna use while im waiting for a good discount on the 2070 super

Also, why the x570 if you arent using an "X" skew of CPU? could you save some money and go with a b450/b550??

[ProBottler]

Just now, owencrispy said:

why the x570

Probably pcie gen 4 future proof.
But yea, its unnecessary, a B550 A-Pro or the good ole B450 Tomahawk Max would be enough

[ProBottler]

7 minutes ago, owencrispy said:

using an "X" skew of CPU

My personal opinion, those X sku cpus are a way for AMD to charge you 50 usd extra with the only advantage is better binned silicon for your XOC needs at best

[owencrispy]

Just now, ProBottler said:

My personal opinion, those X sku cpus are a way for AMD to charge you 50 usd extra with the only advantage is better binned silicon for your XOC needs at best

exactly why i chose the 2600 over the 2600x, it wasnt worth the extra £45

[Falcondor]

46 minutes ago, ProBottler said:

The PSU is my only criticization. You dont need 700w of power even if youre going to overclock your compoments. In my opinion you can get away with 650w, even 500-550w PSU

The 700w psu is me  futureproofing  and because most 2070 supers I've seen recommend at least 650w of power

[ProBottler]

4 minutes ago, Falcondor said:

The 700w psu is me  futureproofing  and because most 2070 supers I've seen recommend at least 650w of power

Dont need to, the recommended PSU wattage by the manufacture has already counted your cpu and other parts' power consumption

Heres the power consuption in GPU intensive workloads

And heres an example in F1 2019

As you can see, the GPU can only pulls 265.2W at its best ability. So imo 700w is overkill

Edited August 4, 2020 by ProBottler