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2 hours ago, willians1002 said:

Should I get the Gold (66€) or the Platinium (89€)?

 

Remember that I need the connectors for:

1x Motherboard

1x GTX 1080 8G

1x SSD

5x Fans (4pin each)

1x water cooler

1x i7 8700K

The gold is fine. The Efficiency difference between gold and platinum isn’t significant from a power savings standpoint. Though it may be slightly more quiet. It’s up to you if you want to spend the extra money. Nothing wrong with either.

 

It’ll have those connections except for fans. I don’t know of a motherboard with five system fan headers, so you’ll likely need a fan hub powered via a SATA power connection to get all fans to work.

 

This works great: https://www.amazon.com/SilverStone-System-Cables-Black-CPF04/dp/B00VNW556I

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Hi @Firewrath9, thank you for your feedback

 

Are you talking about the rear 120mm water cooler?

I was thinking about putting a 360mm or 240mm radiator in the front and the rear and top 120mm fans.

Any suggestions? (Case specs in the image)

 

The PSU can be of any trusted and certified brand. It just must to be Semi or Full modular.

 

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Hi @Firewrath9, thank you for your feedback

 

Are you talking about the rear 120mm water cooler?

I was thinking about putting a 360mm or 240mm radiator in the front and the rear and top 120mm fans.

Any suggestions? (Case specs in the image)

 

The PSU can be of any trusted and certified brand. It just must to be Semi or Full modular.

 

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Yeah i was talking about the ml120l, i would get a 240mm or a 280 as a 120mm isnt that good.

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My Thermaltake Smart 750w is really good for the price. The one test I found of it online showed it was great with ripple and voltage regulation and all that as well. 

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8 minutes ago, violentnumeric said:

My Thermaltake Smart 750w is really good for the price. The one test I found of it online showed it was great with ripple and voltage regulation and all that as well.

What, this review? 

https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5613/thermaltake-smart-750-watt-80-plus-bronze-power-supply-review/index.html

Capxon caps on the secondary side, what looks like an ultra low end sleeve bearing fan, 2,3% regulation and 34mV ripple? That's not good. Looking at the $65 price, it's not very good

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For some reason, my text disappeared.

 

I was saying,

 

In Blue are the 3 included RGB fans

In Red is the radiator

Is it possible to choose in which side the radiator fans stay? I want them in the yellow side so i can see them from the front (like in the other image without the squares).

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Get a SeaSonic Focus

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AX1600i owner. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_GMev0EwK37J3zZL98zIqF-OSBuHlFEHmrc_SPuYsjs/edit?usp=sharing My WIP Power Supply Guide.

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2 hours ago, willians1002 said:

Should I get the Gold (66€) or the Platinium (89€)?

 

Remember that I need the connectors for:

1x Motherboard

1x GTX 1080 8G

1x SSD

5x Fans (4pin each)

1x water cooler

1x i7 8700K

The gold is fine. The Efficiency difference between gold and platinum isn’t significant from a power savings standpoint. Though it may be slightly more quiet. It’s up to you if you want to spend the extra money. Nothing wrong with either.

 

It’ll have those connections except for fans. I don’t know of a motherboard with five system fan headers, so you’ll likely need a fan hub powered via a SATA power connection to get all fans to work.

 

This works great: https://www.amazon.com/SilverStone-System-Cables-Black-CPF04/dp/B00VNW556I

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AX1600i owner. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_GMev0EwK37J3zZL98zIqF-OSBuHlFEHmrc_SPuYsjs/edit?usp=sharing My WIP Power Supply Guide.

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2 hours ago, willians1002 said:

Should I get the Gold (66€) or the Platinium (89€)?

 

Remember that I need the connectors for:

1x Motherboard

1x GTX 1080 8G

1x SSD

5x Fans (4pin each)

1x water cooler

1x i7 8700K

Yes, we're quite familiar on this section of the internet what is contained in a PC :P

 

Your motherboard handles all fans.

Your motherboard takes nearly no power. All PSUs have the connections for an ATX motherboard if they're ATX-spec.
Good, a 1080 does need specific connections, esp. ones with aftermarket heatsinks and power designs.

Your AIO connects to your motherboard.

The 8700K sources power from the 4+4 pin connection on your motherboard, which is the thing mentioned above.

 

As stated above, a Seasonic Focus Plus Gold 550W would be a good choice for you.

My account is almost entirely dormant. Hope you all are having a grand time. Many years of fun were had here.

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23 hours ago, seon123 said:

What, this review? 

https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5613/thermaltake-smart-750-watt-80-plus-bronze-power-supply-review/index.html

Capxon caps on the secondary side, what looks like an ultra low end sleeve bearing fan, 2,3% regulation and 34mV ripple? That's not good. Looking at the $65 price, it's not very good

You're completely wrong :)

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10 hours ago, seon123 said:

Feel free to explain how

34mV ripple is less than 1/3rd of spec, hell, it's almost 1/4th of spec, 2% VReg is also fine, if unimpressive, the caps I won't comment on, neither you not I can gauge what models of caps they use (I do have one of these units, but it's currently in use so I won't pull it apart, when I get another unit to finally replace it I'll crack it open) so saying "CapXon is bad" is misleading...

 

40c temp rating is fine,  overall platform is fine...

 

It's not a great unit, but there's a reason it's "T3", it's not a horrible PSU. 

Just some bapo nerd from 'Straya

 

PCs:

Main: i7 7700K (5GHz 1.4V) | ASUS GTX 1080 TURBO | 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance 3000MHz (3200MHz CL14 1.365V) | ASUS PRIME Z270-AR | Thermaltake SMART 750P | Coolermaster Seidon 240P | Acer Predator X34 (34" 1440p144Hz GSync IPS)

 

Secondary: i5 3570K | Intel HD4000 (RIP Sapphire HD 6850) | 2x2GB + 1x4GB Kingston 1600MHz | ASUS P8Z68-V LX | Corsair CX650 | Coolermaster Hyper D92 | Sony Bravia VPL-VW80 (108" 1080p60Hz projector)

 

Laptop: i7 7700HQ | GTX 1060 6GB MXM | 2x16GB SODIMM | OEM Acer Motherboard | 17.3" Screen (1080p60Hz IPS)

 

iMac: Core 2 Duo T7400 | ATI Radeon X1600 | 2x1GB 667MHz DDR2 | 20" Screen

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4 hours ago, awesomegamer919 said:

It's not a great unit, but there's a reason it's "T3", it's not a horrible PSU. 

$65 price, though. Focus can currently be had for $3 more, and there's also a bunch of other higher end, lower wattage PSUs for the same price. Since OP is powering a 1080, the wattage isn't necessary. 

:)

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