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Hey guys,

Looking at building a home rendering server in fall, and need some suggestions on Power Supplies.

The rack-mounted system will be running three MSI GTX 980ti in SLI, running off an Asus P9D LGA1150 Server-Grade motherboard, with an Intel Xeon E3 1230V3 Haswell CPU, as well as eight WD Red NAS 4TB HDDs, and four Intel 535 Series SSDs (all fitted into a NORCO RPC-4116 4U Rack Mount chassis).

I've been looking at a couple of Silverstone and EVGA options, but wanted some insight into something that is more tried-and-tested with these types of server configurations. I've also been looking at the APC Smart-UPS RM SMT1500RM2U as a good bang-for-buck UPS solution for the system.

I don't have an overall budget at the moment as this build is fairly far off, but wanted to see what you guys could suggest.

I will be moving from London, England to Austin, Texas before I actually start this build, so any insight as well into the North American PC Component market would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Justin

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why not get a real redundant server PSU instead of a consumer one?

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3 980 ti's in SLI? For that I would go for a 1000-1200W PSU. Also are you going to buy the parts in London or USA?

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Just now, Enderman said:

why not get a real redundant server PSU instead of a consumer one?

If you've got a suggestion for one, I'll totally check it out! This is a bit of a learning curve for me, so I'm completely open to suggestions :)

1 minute ago, Abdul201588 said:

3 980 ti's in SLI? For that I would go for a 1000-1200W PSU. Also are you going to buy the parts in London or USA?

Looking to purchase all the stuff in the USA, likely September time.

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make sure it is fully redundent

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I was thinking about the Corsair AX1200i. I've been seeing good reviews for it, and it's 80 Plus Platinum rated.

Thoughts?

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12 minutes ago, Holford said:

I was thinking about the Corsair AX1200i. I've been seeing good reviews for it, and it's 80 Plus Platinum rated.

Thoughts?

It's an excellent PSU. Go for it. :)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | CPU Cooler: Stock AMD Cooler | Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING (WI-FI) | RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (4x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16 | GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB Zotac Mini | Case: K280 Case | PSU: Cooler Master B600 Power supply | SSD: 1TB  | HDDs: 1x 250GB & 1x 1TB WD Blue | Monitor: 24" Acer S240HLBID | OS: Win 11 Pro.

 

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