Which Replacement? Upgrade from 750 to 850

[Tyler-UAC]

I purchased an ASUS GT35 that has a Great Wall 750e PSU that is having issues, so I'm looking to upgrade to an 850W. 

 

Can anyone suggest or provide info as to which of the following will be best compatible for a plug-n-play swap? 

 

• Corsair RM850X 
• EVGA SuperNova GT 850

 

I appreciate any input! 

[Dedayog]

11 minutes ago, Tyler-UAC said:

I purchased an ASUS GT35 that has a Great Wall 750e PSU that is having issues, so I'm looking to upgrade to an 850W. 

 

Can anyone suggest or provide info as to which of the following will be best compatible for a plug-n-play swap? 

 

• Corsair RM850X 
• EVGA SuperNova GT 850

 

I appreciate any input! 

They're both good units.  Since you tell us nothing about your machine, we can't even split hairs between them.  Get either.

[Tyler-UAC]

6 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

They're both good units.  Since you tell us nothing about your machine, we can't even split hairs between them.  Get either.

 

10700KF, RTX3080, 16GB RAM, 3x SSDs. 

 

More or less just concerned with having enough connectors that will be compatible with the existing wiring 

[--SID--]

RM850x is way better than EVGA GT.

[seon123]

2 hours ago, Tyler-UAC said:

has a Great Wall 750e PSU that is having

How did you get to this conclusion? And why not just get an RMA?

[Tyler-UAC]

3 hours ago, seon123 said:

How did you get to this conclusion? And why not just get an RMA?

Long story short, when under load for any extended period of time (30min or more), the entire computer shuts down/loses power and reboots. Under light loads there are no issues. 

 

RMA requires I ship the entire unit across the country, and they won't cover shipping both ways apparently. So getting a new PSU is essentially more cost effective than paying for shipping this whole thing. 

[GoldenLag]

11 hours ago, Tyler-UAC said:

• Corsair RM850X 
• EVGA SuperNova GT 850

RMx is just a way better powersupply, then again i dont know the cost between them, and that may play some part, but if they are remotely similar price wise, RMx is the better choice. 

[Tyler-UAC]

Edited

 

Quick question. I did the PSU swap, and for some reason one SSD blew up. Both are wired to the same power source, but one decided to blow and the other is fine. 

 

Fortunately it was a secondary SSD just holding my game files but I'm still confused as to why it may have happened. 

 

I made the mistake of NOT swapping this set of cables from the old/existing to the EVGA provided ones. However, id think if one expansion Bay drive blows the other should have? I put another SSD in the bay to test and it fired up fine.