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It's a rebranded HEC unit from a few years back. Not very good, but far from the worst thing I've ever seen. I wouldn't put one in a gaming system that's going to spend a lot of its life under load.

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38 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

It's a rebranded HEC unit from a few years back. Not very good, but far from the worst thing I've ever seen. I wouldn't put one in a gaming system that's going to spend a lot of its life under load.

I play for about 8hrs a day....

Would you recommend an upgrade?

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7 minutes ago, Edddddd said:

I play for about 8hrs a day....

Would you recommend an upgrade?

Yes, you should upgrade.
If you put just 50c in a jar for each hour that you play on your computer, in less than 2 weeks time you will have saved up enough cash for a good quality power supply.

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18 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Yes, you should upgrade.
If you put just 50c in a jar for each hour that you play on your computer, in less than 2 weeks time you will have saved up enough cash for a good quality power supply.

Corsair TX 750M Power Supply

This?

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Just now, Edddddd said:

Corsair TX 750M Power Supply

This?

The Corsair CX450M would be suitable for your 1060 6GB and i5 8400, and a lot cheaper than the TX750M.

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Just now, Edddddd said:

I am planning to upgrade to a 1080 ti tho..... 

is the Corsair cx750m enough....

Why upgrade to a 1080ti?
What monitor are you using, what resolution and refresh rate?

For a 1080ti with the i5 8400 I would recommend something like a Seasonic Focus Plus Gold 550W.

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4 hours ago, Edddddd said:

I am planning to upgrade to a 1080 ti tho..... 

is the Corsair cx750m enough....

If you're looking at a 1080 Ti, do yourself a favor and buy an i7-8700 instead

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6 hours ago, Edddddd said:

I am planning to upgrade to a 1080 ti tho..... 

is the Corsair cx750m enough....

Funnily enough, a CX450M is what I would recommend for a 1080Ti and i5 8400.

 

A Corsair TX550M is plenty. Don't get any more. Even with an 8700K you'd be fine on a 550W with plenty of OC.

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16 hours ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

Funnily enough, a CX450M is what I would recommend for a 1080Ti and i5 8400.

 

A Corsair TX550M is plenty. Don't get any more. Even with an 8700K you'd be fine on a 550W with plenty of OC.

A CX450M is not going to work well with a 1080 Ti.

 

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7 hours ago, jonnyGURU said:

A CX450M is not going to work well with a 1080 Ti.

 

You mean PCIe connectors, right? That's probably it.

 

Heck.

 

Well a 450W unit is what I would recommend, but you get my point.

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5 minutes ago, Stefan Payne said:

No, he means the Plattform/Topology as the CXM is Double Forward.

The CX-M has two PCIe.

I spent 5 hours in stop and go traffic today. I might be out of the loop or drunj on a lack of sleep, but are we going to not recommend OK double-forward units for 1080 Ti systems now?

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16 minutes ago, Stefan Payne said:

That is what Jon said...

I mean, he might be a Guru but I don't see why. The only serious mark against the CX450M, for me at least, is the fan, and the unit is at a price point where they can't do much more to keep making money on the unit so far as I can tell, so it doesn't really bother me.

 

I'm so tired. I'm gonna sleep. If JG walks me through something I don't understand about double-forward designs and 1080 Tis not meshing together well, then I'll read it and learn tomorrow. But for now, it doesn't seem a huge issue to me.

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A couple things:  While 1080 Ti's have been measured requiring a relatively low amount of power *< 300W), that's from sites measuring RMS power.  1080 Ti has been measured (using more expensive equipment like an oscilliscope) at very heavy transient peaks for very short periods of time.  Too short to be measured by a power meter, but long enough to trip a PSU's OCP or OPP.   That's part of the reason why the Corsair One uses an SF600 and not just an SF450.

 

As for the double forward topology:  It's as Stefan said.  The high power, high slew loads of these graphics cards cause the main transformers to make buzzing noises.  Some louder than others (for example:  A CX-M running Catzilla is louder than a VS running Catzilla), but I've yet to hear (or not hear) a DF based PSU not make noise from the transformer under certain loads.  Will it work?  Sure.  Will it be annoying?  Potentially.

 

So I would suggest a 550W with a resonant LLC topology for any of these higher end cards.  For power, for silence, and for the correct number of PCIe connectors (typically).  If the user has to have modular, they're just going to need to up their budget.

 

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