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Hi, I have a ryzen 5 1600 running at stock (Looking at upgrading soon) and a Corsair TX550M power supply.

For the meantime until i upgrade my CPU will my PSU have enough wattage to supply it? Is it worth buying a new psu?

 

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Should be fine. The TXM is solid and i even ran a 3080 with a 650W psu before.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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1 minute ago, Stahlmann said:

Should be fine. The TXM is solid and i even ran a 3080 with a 650W psu before.

ok nice lol, I thought so. My old card used to whine so if the new one does it I'll probably end up replacing the PSU anyways just to stop that annoying noise.

Thanks for the help :) 

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Just now, BornOrca said:

ok nice lol, I thought so. My old card used to whine so if the new one does it I'll probably end up replacing the PSU anyways just to stop that annoying noise.

That's exactly what happened with my 650W PSU and why i switched to a RMx 850W :D

 

It ran fine at 650W but was noisy.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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Just now, Stahlmann said:

That's exactly what happened with my 650W PSU and why i switched to a RMx 850W :D

 

It ran fine at 650W but was noisy.

ahhh fair enough lol. Sorry to trouble you but I had one last question. Can cleaning a PSU cause a GPU to coil whine? Cuz before I cleaned my PC with compressed air my GPU never made the noise. I know the noise isnt coming from the PSU but plenty of people say online PSU can cause GPUS to coil whine. Sorry if it's a stupid question I just want to know.

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1 minute ago, BornOrca said:

ahhh fair enough lol. Sorry to trouble you but I had one last question. Can cleaning a PSU cause a GPU to coil whine? Cuz before I cleaned my PC with compressed air my GPU never made the noise. I know the noise isnt coming from the PSU but plenty of people say online PSU can cause GPUS to coil whine. Sorry if it's a stupid question I just want to know.

PSUs "can" cause GPU coil whine. But many GPUs have whine no matter what PSU you have. Idk about the cleaning thing, but you have to be careful with compressed air. You could rip off capacitors or other parts from the PSU's pcb (or any PC hardware for that matter) and permanently damage it.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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Just now, Stahlmann said:

PSUs "can" cause GPU coil whine. But many GPUs have whine no matter what PSU you have. Idk about the cleaning thing, but you have to be careful with compressed air. You could rip off capacitors or other parts from the PSU's pcb (or any PC hardware for that matter) and permanently damage it.

ok, thanks. It was a can of compressed air so I highly doubt it did the pressure that came out of that thing was weak af.

If it starts whining tho im gunna replace it cuz its rly annoying lol. I doubt it is tho cuz im borrowing my friends 1050ti atm cuz i wanted to return my 2060 super and his card barely whines at all.

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The TX550M is a good quality unit and 550W is plenty for a R5 1600 and 3060 Ti. You're fine.
Often people forget that Nvidia says 650W is minimum on the 3070 for example is still on an i9 with like 64GB RAM.

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Just now, FRD said:

The TX550M is a good quality unit and 550W is plenty for a R5 1600 and 3060 Ti. You're fine.
Often people forget that Nvidia says 650W is minimum on the 3070 for example is still on an i9 with like 64GB RAM.

ahh yeh the r5 1600 uses barely any power lol.

Thanks for the help :) 

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2 minutes ago, BornOrca said:

ahh yeh the r5 1600 uses barely any power lol.

Thanks for the help :) 

Technically your build could even run on a 450W PSU, but generally this isn't done and it would have to be a quality PSU like a BitFenix Whisper 450W.
Gladly your PSU is in Tier A of PSU's, literally the only disadvantage is not having full modulair cables. Other than that it's great.

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52 minutes ago, james0n said:

Im thinking of getting the rmx 850w once the 30 series has better stock and 11th gen desktop intel comes out, how well do you recomend the rmx? Thanks

rm850x is high quality. that is pretty much all you want to know.

intel 11th gen wont be extra odinary tho. it can beat AMD on gaming but probably by really small margin anyway. If they are cheaper (or at stock) than AMD counterparts then sure, but otherwise they will be kinda obsolate. 

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2 hours ago, james0n said:

I understand what your saying however my choices for going with intel is because i plan on taking advantage of the iGPU for my linux host and ill be passing my 30 series gpu to a Win10 VM for gaming. I will say tho that if their was a 5600x with even the most basic Vega iGPU i would be using that in a heart beat. 

You could also just buy a cheap 2nd dGPU to use with a 5600X. They don't even use a full 16x PCIE slot most times.

 

I can fully recommend the RMx 850W. The Rmx are known to be very resistant to the RTX and RX transient power spikes. Even the 650W version worked flawlessly without any stability issues.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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