Is it worth it?

[lockejaw]

I have the oppopportunity to buy an EVGA SuperNova 1000W P2 PSU for 100 bnib with the shrink wrap still on it. Is it worth it to use that on a new build with a Ryzen 7800x3D and an RTX3070. I know that’s an older generation PSU. Only reason Im changing psu is that my current Seasonic 850 PSU has CableMod cables that werent done correctly. One of the PCI-E cables doesnt have the prproper pin layout and I don’t have the original cables nor any extra Cablemod cables(wouldn’t want to use them anyway). I got lucky I didnt fry my system. Just gave me issues with powering the GPU. Thank you Seasonic for building solid PSUs.

[PDifolco]

6 minutes ago, lockejaw said:

I have the oppopportunity to buy an EVGA SuperNova 1000W P2 PSU for 100 bnib with the shrink wrap still on it. Is it worth it to use that on a new build with a Ryzen 7800x3D and an RTX3070. I know that’s an older generation PSU. Only reason Im changing psu is that my current Seasonic 850 PSU has CableMod cables that werent done correctly. One of the PCI-E cables doesnt have the prproper pin layout and I don’t have the original cables nor any extra Cablemod cables(wouldn’t want to use them anyway). I got lucky I didnt fry my system. Just gave me issues with powering the GPU. Thank you Seasonic for building solid PSUs.

Why don't you simply get a pack of proper Seasonic cables ??

[Failure 101]

6 minutes ago, lockejaw said:

I have the oppopportunity to buy an EVGA SuperNova 1000W P2 PSU for 100 bnib with the shrink wrap still on it. Is it worth it to use that on a new build with a Ryzen 7800x3D and an RTX3070. I know that’s an older generation PSU. Only reason Im changing psu is that my current Seasonic 850 PSU has CableMod cables that werent done correctly. One of the PCI-E cables doesnt have the prproper pin layout and I don’t have the original cables nor any extra Cablemod cables(wouldn’t want to use them anyway). I got lucky I didnt fry my system. Just gave me issues with powering the GPU. Thank you Seasonic for building solid PSUs.

sure thats decent value or just buy new cables???

[Xiee]

Get new cables. That's the safer option.

[dizmo]

How much are cables? If it's not much more to get the better PSU, I'd just do that.

[johnno23]

need to know the exact model of your PSU but a full set is around 50USD on average,

I would not trust the cheap amazon ones.

[lockejaw]

2 hours ago, Xiee said:

Get new cables. That's the safer option.

Just curious why do you say that. Its a new psu. So I just want to understand why. My psu is about 3 yrs old. 

[Xiee]

Just now, lockejaw said:

Just curious why do you say that. Its a new psu. So I just want to understand why. My psu is about 3 yrs old. 

Didn't you say you were using Cablemod cables that "weren't done correctly"?

So, if your new PSU has its own cables that came with it then just use them. 

Or I'm probably misunderstanding something here.

[lockejaw]

1 hour ago, Xiee said:

Didn't you say you were using Cablemod cables that "weren't done correctly"?

So, if your new PSU has its own cables that came with it then just use them. 

Or I'm probably misunderstanding something here.

The cablemod cables are on the psu that I was using. The new one would have the original cables. I can buy new cables for the one I’ve been using but it’s not much more for the EVGA psu that I’m considering. 

[lockejaw]

3 hours ago, johnno23 said:

need to know the exact model of your PSU but a full set is around 50USD on average,

I would not trust the cheap amazon ones.

Yeah I never cheap out on PSU stuff. That’s why I bought cablemod instead of using some cheap extensions or something like that. Apparently I was wrong on cablemod though.