Will my psu handle it

[Rodneyg87]

I reused my old psu in my new build and after putting a watt meter on the cord into the wall I'm finding my system is drawing right at 650 watts from the wall. I am looking at picking up the new ryzen 7 2700x when it launches and the base tdp of the chip is like 20 more watts over the 1700x so I'm trying to figure out if I should bump my psu up some to an 850 or 1000 or is the overall draw since it's an 80+ gold would mean my system draw would actually be in the 580 range if I'm good or since the draw from the wall is reaching that point is it better to upgrade. Now one thing to keep in mind I dont care about how efficient it is I just care about is it enough.and yes I do intend to overclock the piss out of it as well got my current 1700x up to 4.0ghz and my 1080 ti at 2062 so that is a factor

[STRESSMASTER]

That depends on like other power draw sources. you should not rely on the wall watt meter. Just find out max total of each part in the computer and add them together. If u r overclocking add 100watts

[seon123]

What PSU and GPU do you have?

[Jaxzzzzz]

sorry you may have said but what is the wattage of your current PSU

[seon123]

Just now, STRESSMASTER said:

That depends on like other power draw sources. you should not rely on the wall watt meter. Just find out max total of each part in the computer and add them together. If u r overclocking add 100watts

TDPs do not represent the power draw

[STRMfrmXMN]

3 minutes ago, Rodneyg87 said:

I reused my old psu in my new build and after putting a watt meter on the cord into the wall I'm finding my system is drawing right at 650 watts from the wall. I am looking at picking up the new ryzen 7 2700x when it launches and the base tdp of the chip is like 20 more watts over the 1700x so I'm trying to figure out if I should bump my psu up some to an 850 or 1000 or is the overall draw since it's an 80+ gold would mean my system draw would actually be in the 580 range if I'm good or since the draw from the wall is reaching that point is it better to upgrade. Now one thing to keep in mind I dont care about how efficient it is I just care about is it enough.and yes I do intend to overclock the piss out of it as well got my current 1700x up to 4.0ghz and my 1080 ti at 2062 so that is a factor

A 1700X at 4.0 GHz plus a 1080 Ti should not be drawing 650W from the wall. What did you use to measure it? What is the CPU VCore for your 1700X?

 

My 970 and 1700X, both OC'd, use 370W at the wall. Your system should not use nearly double that.

[STRESSMASTER]

1 minute ago, seon123 said:

TDPs do not represent the power draw

I didn't say it did. but it does give you a good baseline to find out individual watt draw for each component. were-as a wall watt meter to a 650w psu will pull 650w most of the time under load. So learning individual watt draw will give you a clearer answer.

[STRESSMASTER]

Oh and i didn't say to find the TDP (which is a WATT dissipation level not a watt usage level) I said to find the individual watts each part uses.

7 minutes ago, seon123 said:

TDPs do not represent the power draw

 

[seon123]

Just now, STRESSMASTER said:

Oh and i didn't say to find the TDP (which is a WATT dissipation level not a watt usage level) I said to find the individual watts each part uses.

 

Most estimates for the power draw is just the TDP. That's what you'll find if you look it up

[STRESSMASTER]

the wall watt draw does seems to be a mis-reading. I have had some PSU draw the max watt under any load. Not sure why but with it doing this I suggest a swap and re-read to verify your psu isn't faulty. I have not seen many PSU actually draw the max during use unless there was a problem.

10 minutes ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

A 1700X at 4.0 GHz plus a 1080 Ti should not be drawing 650W from the wall. What did you use to measure it? What is the CPU VCore for your 1700X?

 

My 970 and 1700X, both OC'd, use 370W at the wall. Your system should not use nearly double that.

 

15 minutes ago, Rodneyg87 said:

I reused my old psu in my new build and after putting a watt meter on the cord into the wall I'm finding my system is drawing right at 650 watts from the wall. I am looking at picking up the new ryzen 7 2700x when it launches and the base tdp of the chip is like 20 more watts over the 1700x so I'm trying to figure out if I should bump my psu up some to an 850 or 1000 or is the overall draw since it's an 80+ gold would mean my system draw would actually be in the 580 range if I'm good or since the draw from the wall is reaching that point is it better to upgrade. Now one thing to keep in mind I dont care about how efficient it is I just care about is it enough.and yes I do intend to overclock the piss out of it as well got my current 1700x up to 4.0ghz and my 1080 ti at 2062 so that is a factor

 

Edited April 6, 2018 by STRESSMASTER

[Rodneyg87]

I have a evga 750 watt gold rated psu my vcore is set to 1.425v with a evga 1080 ti hybrid with a 240mm aio on the CPU with 5 rgb fans and 2 rgb strips 240gb ssd and a 1tb m.2

[TheRandomness]

Your current PSU is fine.

[STRESSMASTER]

2 minutes ago, Rodneyg87 said:

I have a evga 750 watt gold rated psu my vcore is set to 1.425v with a evga 1080 ti hybrid with a 240mm aio on the CPU with 5 rgb fans and 2 rgb strips 240gb ssd and a 1tb m.2

Maybe try disconnecting the RBG strips and test again. that systems should only draw about 400w. just to see if it changes.

Edited April 6, 2018 by STRESSMASTER

[Rodneyg87]

2 minutes ago, Rodneyg87 said:

I have a evga 750 watt gold rated psu my vcore is set to 1.425v with a evga 1080 ti hybrid with a 240mm aio on the CPU with 5 rgb fans and 2 rgb strips 240gb ssd and a 1tb m.2

Forgot to mention my 1080 ti is set to 127% power limit as well

[STRESSMASTER]

13 minutes ago, Rodneyg87 said:

Forgot to mention my 1080 ti is set to 127% power limit as well

still that is under 500w load if my math is right. EVGA watt meter site says even overclocked you should be using around 400w and is suggesting a 650w PSU

https://www.evga.com/power-meter/

RBG should only be a total of 10w-+

[STRMfrmXMN]

14 minutes ago, Rodneyg87 said:

Forgot to mention my 1080 ti is set to 127% power limit as well

So roughly 450W under load. 

 

Your current PSU is fine.

[STRESSMASTER]

for future though use this site

http://www.coolermaster.com/power-supply-calculator/

as for the psu drawing 650w from the wall I'd personally call evga on that. I had one years ago that it seemed to work just fine in all other respects but was over drawing from the wall. as power = $$ evga will probably replace it.

[Rodneyg87]

3 hours ago, STRESSMASTER said:

for future though use this site

http://www.coolermaster.com/power-supply-calculator/

as for the psu drawing 650w from the wall I'd personally call evga on that. I had one years ago that it seemed to work just fine in all other respects but was over drawing from the wall. as power = $$ evga will probably replace it.

Yea it just made me wonder if all the extras I had put into the case were pulling more than what I had figured for since this is the same psu I bought in June 2015 for my old system that I reused. My old system was a i5-4690k overclocked to 5.0ghz at 1.35v with a GTX 980 ti overclocked to 1552mhz and it pulled around 425 from the wall on that setup

[Rodneyg87]

well managed to get my hands on a watt meter that plugs into the wall rather than clamping around the cord and found my setup pulls a max of 529.3 from the wall