Looking for a PSU

[dosmoney]

Hey folks, currently looking for a 1000w PSU. Budget 250ish at the absolute peak, lower would be nice. 

Needs: Modular and white. White cabling would be nice but I'm also ok with either buying aftermarket or attempting to sleeve my own. Originally I was looking at the white Corsair RM, especially because they come with white sleeving , but the largest they make is 850. Im Leaning towards this Seasonic just wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions or experience with the seasonic?

[Paytend01]

Just curious, why do you need 1000w?

[STRMfrmXMN]

10 minutes ago, dosmoney said:

Hey folks, currently looking for a 1000w PSU. Budget 250ish at the absolute peak, lower would be nice. 

Needs: Modular and white. White cabling would be nice but I'm also ok with either buying aftermarket or attempting to sleeve my own. Originally I was looking at the white Corsair RM, especially because they come with white sleeving , but the largest they make is 850. Im Leaning towards this Seasonic just wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions or experience with the seasonic?

What are you powering that demands a 1000W PSU?

[dosmoney]

Originally I was thinking a 750ish psu. When I entered what i am building on the outervision site, it recommended an 850 watt PSU and I plan on expanding the system. 

 

The system (to start) will be OC Ryzen 1700x (assuming 1.4volts) 16 gb ram, 2 ssd, 2 physical drives, gtx 1080 OC'd (assuming 20% overvoltage) , d5 pump, 6 fans (3 140mm push/pull), and a some RGB strips and periphs. Eventually may add another rad with more fans and possible SLi in the future, as well as more storage and ram, and maybe a second loop if i get saucy.

 

edit: actually reccomended an 820

 

[Stefan Payne]

32 minutes ago, dosmoney said:

Originally I was thinking a 750ish psu. When I entered what i am building on the outervision site, it recommended an 850 watt PSU and I plan on expanding the system. 

 

The system (to start) will be OC Ryzen 1700x (assuming 1.4volts) 16 gb ram, 2 ssd, 2 physical drives, gtx 1080 OC'd (assuming 20% overvoltage) , d5 pump, 6 fans (3 140mm push/pull), and a some RGB strips and periphs. Eventually may add another rad with more fans and possible SLi in the future, as well as more storage and ram, and maybe a second loop if i get saucy.

 

edit: actually reccomended an 820

 

The outervision Calculator is bullcrap. 

 

With THAT rig and only one graphics card all you need is 550W. 

1000W is something you'd want with 4 graphics cards. 

 

 

PS: Ryzen OC doesn't make a lot of sense. You get +50-100W more for 200W or so. Not worth it. Save the money and time for the Memory, that's way more important and can give you way more performance than core OC can do...

[dosmoney]

Just now, Stefan Payne said:

The outervision Calculator is bullcrap. 

 

With THAT rig and only one graphics card all you need is 550W. 

1000W is something you'd want with 4 graphics cards. 

 

 

PS: Ryzen OC doesn't make a lot of sense. You get +50-100W more for 200W or so. Not worth it. Save the money and time for the Memory, that's way more important and can give you way more performance than core OC can do...

 Every forum or site I visit calls every PSU calc crap. there has to be one thats somewhat reliable no?  I figured 1000 was overkill probably going to go with the corsair or seasonic 750

[Stefan Payne]

5 minutes ago, dosmoney said:

 Every forum or site I visit calls every PSU calc crap. there has to be one thats somewhat reliable no?  

 

No, they are all equally shitty.

Especially if you don't know what you are doing.  If you know how to use them, you usually don't need them!!

If you only input CPU and GPU and nothing else, no memory, no drives, no nothing, they can be decent. Like the be quiet calculator...

 

They just add the TDP of the components and throw out some worst case numbers like everything is at 100% load and the drives start spinning. 

 

Just try it, remove one drive and see how the valuce changes. Those things are usually calculated with 24W at best and 50W at worst. And that's something that's just wrong should be obvious because if that was the case the HDD would need some serious heatinking - and they run fine even without airflow.

ANd yes, a HDD can use this 2A - for less than a second, when the motor is starting to spin then it uses the 2A at +12V. 

At normal operation we are talking about a couple of watts, nothing worth thinking about...

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I figured 1000 was overkill probably going to go with the corsair or seasonic 750

Why don't you listen to what people who know their stuff are saying?!
750W is something you can think about with 2 Graphics cards - and you wouldn't want that because it rarely ever works these days. 

 

You don't need 750W

You don't need 650W

 

all you need is a good 500-550W unit...