Is 500w psu enough to power a rtx 2070 and a ryzen 5 3600x?

[jami1690]

Is 500w psu enough to power a rtx 2070 and a ryzen 5 3600x?

[Mateyyy]

Depends on what 500W PSU it is. Can you tell us the exact model?

[Downkey]

4 minutes ago, jami1690 said:

Is 500w psu enough to power a rtx 2070 and a ryzen 5 3600x?

what PSU?

[Keamon]

i would say that that's a stretch

[Dr. Commie]

1 minute ago, jami1690 said:

Is 500w psu enough to power a rtx 2070 and a ryzen 5 3600x?

Well NVIDIA would say minimum 650W but, I think 500W could handle it providing there's no OC applied to either CPU or GPU, that being said the addition of your drives etc would probably leave only a 50W gap which isn't really advisable. Also bear in mind, it's better to get a "name brand" PSU with 500W in that case, think quality not necessarily quantity.

[jami1690]

13 minutes ago, Downkey said:

what PSU?

Evga 500w 80 plus 

[--SID--]

No. Every 500w EVGA 80 Plus isn't sufficient for 3600X with RTX 2070.

[Downkey]

1 hour ago, jami1690 said:

Evga 500w 80 plus 

Bad psu. Upgrade that. Do you have a budget for an upgrade?

[jami1690]

1 hour ago, Downkey said:

Bad psu. Upgrade that. Do you have a budget for an upgrade?

Yeah I have around £150

[Downkey]

3 hours ago, jami1690 said:

Is 500w psu enough to power a rtx 2070 and a ryzen 5 3600x?

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/6Y66Mp/corsair-rm-2019-750-w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-cp-9020195-na

[jami1690]

4 minutes ago, Downkey said:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/6Y66Mp/corsair-rm-2019-750-w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-cp-9020195-na

Thank you

[--SID--]

Which country are you living?

 

Edit:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/bq6qqs/msi-650-w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-mpg-a650gf

and

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/Rj22FT/be-quiet-straight-power-11-650w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-bn282

are better quality and more silent dan Corsair RM.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

11 minutes ago, --SID-- said:

are better quality and more silent dan Corsair RM.

Who did you learn that from? Because it's not true.

 

Also, you can not be more silent. 

[Guest]

28 minutes ago, --SID-- said:

 

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/bq6qqs/msi-650-w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-mpg-a650gf

and

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/Rj22FT/be-quiet-straight-power-11-650w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-bn282

are better quality and more silent dan Corsair RM.

Based on what information?

[--SID--]

RM is not RMx. RM had lower quality caps and fan. The MSI and be quiet have better quality internals and better fan than RM and besides that they are multirail with better protections.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

6 minutes ago, --SID-- said:

RM is not RMx. RM had lower quality caps and fan. The MSI and be quiet have better quality internals and better fan than RM and besides that they are multirail with better protections.

Both RM and RMx is better. 

1 not every one needs multirail.

2 looking at the their list, it's A their, low priority (slight issues) but the RM (and RMx and rmi) is, oh that's odd, in A teir with no issues? That's odd.

 

[Mateyyy]

21 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Both RM and RMx is better. 

How's the RM better than both of those units, exactly?

[seon123]

1 hour ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Both RM and RMx is better. 

1 not every one needs multirail.

2 looking at the their list, it's A their, low priority (slight issues) but the RM (and RMx and rmi) is, oh that's odd, in A teir with no issues? That's odd.

 

Ignore the tier list, check out the actual PSUs for yourself. *facedesk*

No one needs multi rail, the same way that no one needs OTP, OPP, SCP etc. It's a protection, and added safety. 

The RM uses a crappy Hong Hua fan, which is a major downgrade from the NR135 in the RMx. 

[electropical]

22 hours ago, seon123 said:

No one needs multi rail, the same way that no one needs OTP, OPP, SCP etc. It's a protection, and added safety. 

The RM uses a crappy Hong Hua fan, which is a major downgrade from the NR135 in the RMx. 

Saying that no one needs multirail and other protections is ridiculous, it's like saying that no one needs grounding or fire extinguishers.

It doesn't matter how rarely they're put to use, fire extinguishers and PSU protections do fulfill specific needs, like the need of not dying in a fire. Do 200w PSUs need to come with multirail OCP? Not necessarily. 1600w units? Yes, probably.

 

As for the fan that comes with the RM, it uses a custom driver IC, which makes it significantly quieter than the OG Hong Hua fan. The RMx being dead silent should not spoil us into thinking that anything louder than it qualifies as loud. The RM is still far quieter than most PSUs in the market, and is definitely quieter than most GPU fans under load.

[seon123]

1 hour ago, electropical said:

Saying that no one needs multirail and other protections is ridiculous, it's like saying that no one needs grounding or fire extinguishers.

It doesn't matter how rarely they're put to use, fire extinguishers and PSU protections do fulfill specific needs, like the need of not dying in a fire. Do 200w PSUs need to come with multirail OCP? Not necessarily. 1600w units? Yes, probably.

Read the post that I replied to for context, to see why I worded it like that. Should be fairly obvious that I'm arguing for multi rail.

1 hour ago, electropical said:

As for the fan that comes with the RM, it uses a custom driver IC, which makes it significantly quieter than the OG Hong Hua fan. The RMx being dead silent should not spoil us into thinking that anything louder than it qualifies as loud. The RM is still far quieter than most PSUs in the market, and is definitely quieter than most GPU fans under load.

While it may be better than the Hong Hua fans used by Seasonic, they still need to spin faster at the same load, generating more noise, comparing the RM to the RMx. I said it is a major downgrade from the NR135, which it is.

[electropical]

On 1/31/2021 at 1:40 AM, seon123 said:

Read the post that I replied to for context, to see why I worded it like that. Should be fairly obvious that I'm arguing for multi rail.

Not obvious at all, quite the opposite actually.

 

The guy you were replying to was saying that there are use cases that need multirail OCP, just not every use case out there (which is true).

Then, you went out of your way to "correct" him (even though there was nothing to correct there). 

 

Anyway, no need to have beef over this, you've been criticizing seasonic enough over the lack of multirail for me to know that you value this feature. 

On 1/31/2021 at 1:40 AM, seon123 said:

While it may be better than the Hong Hua fans used by Seasonic, they still need to spin faster at the same load, generating more noise, comparing the RM to the RMx. I said it is a major downgrade from the NR135, which it is.

According to Aris' testing, the HX850 is basically just as loud (23 dBA on average) as the RM850 (25.7 dBA on average).

 

Would you say that the NR135P (FDB) that comes with the HX850 is a major downgrade from the NR135L (riffle bearing) that comes with the RM850x because the latter generates only 16.6 dBA of noise on average (Aris' testing) ? 

 

I don't know about you, but I'm okay with the modified Hong Hua fan. What I'm not ok with, is Corsair including cables with in-line caps in the box of the RMx for marketing purposes. Unless those caps help with the transient load power spikes issues, I consider those cables to be a major downgrade from the normal cables that come with the RM. For the same price, I would rather go for an RM850 over the RM750x (for the record I have an RM750x). 

[seon123]

40 minutes ago, electropical said:

According to Aris' testing, the HX850 is basically just as loud (23 dBA on average) as the RM850 (25.7 dBA on average).

 

Would you say that the NR135P (FDB) that comes with the HX850 is a major downgrade from the NR135L (riffle bearing) that comes with the RM850x because the latter generates only 16.6 dBA of noise on average (Aris' testing) ? 

Interestingly, it seems like the noise level numbers for the RM and HX might not be directly comparable. Comparing the review on THW for the RM with the Cybenetics report, both have an average noise output of 25.66 dBA. But for the HX, it's 22.94 dBA on THW, and 20.25 on Cybenetics.

 

But no, I would not say that it's a major downgrade. While the RMx 2018 is very similar to the RM 2019, the HX is more similar to the old RMx. This means it's 20.25 dBA to 19.95 dBA, not 20.25 dBA vs 15.83 dBA. I originally compared the fans using the RM and RMx, as it's pretty much a 1:1 comparison, with pretty much the same PSU.

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

1 hour ago, electropical said:

Not obvious at all, quite the opposite actually.

It was obvious.

[Guest]

People get so salty talking about PSUs, it's mildly entertaining

[Downkey]

6 minutes ago, Shabba said:

People get so salty talking about PSUs, it's mildly entertaining

fr. i just recommended the rm because it was 97 at the time (which is a great deal)