1200W PSU battle: BeQuiet! Vs CoolerMaster

The BeQuiet is about 35£ more expensive, about right for Gold V Plat. The system will have a watercooled 5950X, dual Gen 4.0 NVME, 64GB RAM, 8 x 140mm fans, initially just a 3060 (blew the budget lol) but this will definitely be upgraded end of 2022 to the top 4000 series card, or possibly 2 mid-range cards for GPU rendering. I will not want to have to replace the PSU so it would be nice to have headroom.
 
If you're going to run a top end computer then £35 won't make a lot of difference to the overall price. I'd get the bequiet! as it's a tier A PSU, whereas the CM is a tier B PSU - even though the warranty of the CM is double the bequiet!
 
Thanks - I just found out the only place I can get the BeQuiet! from [in New Zealand] will only offer a 1 year warranty. They say I would have to deal with BeQuiet! in Germany after the first year, and needless to say that is not an option lol.

I think I might wait three weeks and hopefully the Corsair HX1200 Plat will be back in stock, which was what I initially wanted. The stock situation with PSUs seems worse than graphics cards... there are so few 1Kw+ options available.
 
arconz said:
or possibly 2 mid-range cards for GPU rendering
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Mid range cards draw 150-200W, so two of them won't be really any more demanding than single top card.
(if use includes any gaming, multiple cards won't give benefit in that)

And unless manually changing settings all Ryzens top at ~140W draw even under full all core load.

Power draw of other parts is insignificant in comparison and 1kW is easily enough.
 
This is for GPU rendering, 2 cards doubles performance. I would consider the 3080 a mid-range card, 320W each before OC. I used online PSU calculator and my system hit 1K with a 3060 & 3090 combined. I would not be surprised if nVidia push power draw slightly higher for next year.
 
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