Help picking a 750W-850W PSU

[Ennox]

Hi there,

 

I'm in the process of building a new rig (first time in like 10 years) and spent hours looking up comments here on LTT about the "golden" Tier A PSUs and narrowed down my choice to the following models (availability and pricing already taken into account).

 

Enermax Revolution D.F. 750W (99€)
Fractal Design Ion+ 860P 860W (120€)
Super Flower Leadex III Gold 850W (128€)
Corsair RMx White Series RM750x 2018 (127€)
Thermaltake ToughPower GF1 ARGB 750W (145€)

 

I decided to go with 750W+ because of Igorslabs suggestion when using a RTX 3080 plus overcklocking. if the price-diff was < 20€ I picked the 850W model.
The system powered will be your vanilla 8C/16T AMD-System (Zen3) with either RTX 3080 or the AMD derivate and possibly a DVB-C-Tuner. Since I'm a sucker for quite operation the GPU could well end up under water.

Is any of the listed PSUs clearly favorable above the others? Corsair is almost sold out for sane prices here therefore there's only the RMx White on the list.

And the ION+ is the only blue PSU on that list but nevertheless recommended quite often - how come?

 

I've read the reviews but any insight is more than welcome!

[Carbonado]

4 minutes ago, Ennox said:

Hi there,

 

I'm in the process of building a new rig (first time in like 10 years) and spent hours looking up comments here on LTT about the "golden" Tier A PSUs and narrowed down my choice to the following models (availability and pricing already taken into account).

 

Enermax Revolution D.F. 750W (99€)
Fractal Design Ion+ 860P 860W (120€)
Super Flower Leadex III Gold 850W (128€)
Corsair RMx White Series RM750x 2018 (127€)
Thermaltake ToughPower GF1 ARGB 750W (145€)

 

I decided to go with 750W+ because of Igorslabs suggestion when using a RTX 3080 plus overcklocking. if the price-diff was < 20€ I picked the 850W model.
The system powered will be your vanilla 8C/16T AMD-System (Zen3) with either RTX 3080 or the AMD derivate and possibly a DVB-C-Tuner. Since I'm a sucker for quite operation the GPU could well end up under water.

Is any of the listed PSUs clearly favorable above the others? Corsair is almost sold out for sane prices here therefore there's only the RMx White on the list.

And the ION+ is the only blue PSU on that list but nevertheless recommended quite often - how come?

 

I've read the reviews but any insight is more than welcome!

Even though Corsair's rm series here is white, i would personally go for it as it is a highly lauded brand, and i have personally seen how good the RM series os, so if you would ask me, i would choose the Corsair RM750x

[Stormseeker9]

I would just go with a Corsair Rmx or RMi.

 

 

[Ajukrezi]

same as they say only because tis a known brand.

but this post someone has really done the job of investigating.

 

EDIT: just realized that is what you mentioned in the first part 

[Juular]

10 hours ago, Ennox said:

And the ION+ is the only blue PSU on that list but nevertheless recommended quite often - how come?

It's decent, just has a bit worse characteristics, not critically so. Although since Enermax Revo DF is significantly cheaper than everything else i see no reason not to go for it, it's a good PSU. Just keep in mind that it's multirail and you'll need to follow the manual to connect each PCI-e cable to separate rail.

[Ennox]

Thanks for the suggestions!

I went with a Corsair RM850x - better safe than sorry.