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PSU Replacement

Aelita Sophie
By Aelita Sophie
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Though I think I know what I need (about 500Watt should probably be sufficiënt from a reputable brand.) I wonder what suggestions you guys will have. The PSU I currently have is a very old Corsair GS800 with changeable led light (no clue why, rarely use it). I believe I bought this back when the AMD Phenom 2 X6 1100t just released. I'm still using it in my main system right now. Though I'm noticing power drops. My 5v rail delivers 4.8/4.9 without load (acceptable) but reduces to 4.4v whenever a decent load will be present. Say for example charging a phone or connecting a USB microphone. The drop gets so low that it disconnects all USB devices for a moment. This occurs on both 2.0 and 3.0 Where 3.0 it seems to happen with more ease. Also I used to have my system on a 4.8Ghz overclock stable at 1.35v but these days I cant get it stable on 4.5 Ghz. My system is already 2.5 maybe 3 years old, but for my use case it doesnt make sense to upgrade to a newer platform. Thus I think replacing the PSU is the best bet.

My current system:

 

  • i7 4770k (Want to overclock back to 4.8 Ghz if possible, currently running 4.4)
  • MSI Z97 Gaming 7
  • 32GB DDR3-2133Mhz Kingston Savage
  • Asus Strix GTX 970
  • Samsung 960 Pro 256GB M.2 NVMe
  • Corsair Obsidian 750D
  • Corsair GS800

Main RIG: i7 4770k ~ 4.8Ghz | Intel HD Onboard (enough for my LoL gaming) | Samsung 960 Pro 256GB NVMe | 32GB (4x 8GB) Kingston Savage 2133Mhz DDR3 | MSI Z97 Gaming 7 | ThermalTake FrioOCK | MS-Tech (puke) 700W | Windows 10 64Bit

Mining RIG: AMD A6-9500 | ASRock AB350 Pro | 4GB DDR4 | 500GB 2.5 Inch HDD | 2x MSI AERO GTX 1060 6GB (Core/Memory/TDP/Avg Temp +160/+800/120%/45c) | 1x Asus Strix GTX 970 (+195/+400/125%/55c) | 1x KFA2 GTX 960 (+220/+500/120%/70c) | Corsair GS800 800W | HP HSTNS-PD05 1000W | (Modded) Inter-Tech IPC 4U-4129-N Rackmount Case

Guest RIG: FX6300 | AMD HD7870 | Kingston HyperX 128GB SSD | 16GB (2x 8GB) G.Skill Ripjaws 1600Mhz DDR3 | Some ASRock 970 Mobo | Stock Heatsink | some left over PSU  | Windows 10 64Bit

VM Server: HP Proliant DL160 G6 | 2x Intel Xeon E5620 @ 2.4Ghz 4c/8t (8c/16t total) | 16GB (8x 2GB) HP 1066Mhz ECC DDR3 | 2x Western Digital Black 250GB HDD | VMWare ESXI

Storage Node: 2x Intel Xeon E5520 @ 2.27Ghz 4c/8t (8c/16t total) | Intel ServerBoard S5500HCV | 36GB (9x 4GB) 1333Mhz ECC DDR3 | 3x Seagate 2TB 7200RPM | 4x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB

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Minimum Corsair CX-M grey or Seasonic S12II

Best Evga G2/G3, Corsair RMx and many more

Check out the PSU tier list. Get any PSU at least tier 3.

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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3 hours ago, ZM Fong said:

Minimum Corsair CX-M grey or Seasonic S12II

Best Evga G2/G3, Corsair RMx and many more

Check out the PSU tier list. Get any PSU at least tier 3.

I'll definitely will look into those. My first choice would've been the Corsair RMx series. The Be Quiet! PSU's seems really promising as well.

Main RIG: i7 4770k ~ 4.8Ghz | Intel HD Onboard (enough for my LoL gaming) | Samsung 960 Pro 256GB NVMe | 32GB (4x 8GB) Kingston Savage 2133Mhz DDR3 | MSI Z97 Gaming 7 | ThermalTake FrioOCK | MS-Tech (puke) 700W | Windows 10 64Bit

Mining RIG: AMD A6-9500 | ASRock AB350 Pro | 4GB DDR4 | 500GB 2.5 Inch HDD | 2x MSI AERO GTX 1060 6GB (Core/Memory/TDP/Avg Temp +160/+800/120%/45c) | 1x Asus Strix GTX 970 (+195/+400/125%/55c) | 1x KFA2 GTX 960 (+220/+500/120%/70c) | Corsair GS800 800W | HP HSTNS-PD05 1000W | (Modded) Inter-Tech IPC 4U-4129-N Rackmount Case

Guest RIG: FX6300 | AMD HD7870 | Kingston HyperX 128GB SSD | 16GB (2x 8GB) G.Skill Ripjaws 1600Mhz DDR3 | Some ASRock 970 Mobo | Stock Heatsink | some left over PSU  | Windows 10 64Bit

VM Server: HP Proliant DL160 G6 | 2x Intel Xeon E5620 @ 2.4Ghz 4c/8t (8c/16t total) | 16GB (8x 2GB) HP 1066Mhz ECC DDR3 | 2x Western Digital Black 250GB HDD | VMWare ESXI

Storage Node: 2x Intel Xeon E5520 @ 2.27Ghz 4c/8t (8c/16t total) | Intel ServerBoard S5500HCV | 36GB (9x 4GB) 1333Mhz ECC DDR3 | 3x Seagate 2TB 7200RPM | 4x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB

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