700w Gold a little low for a 3080?

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Currently have a 2080 and an overclocked 3800x.

Will be looking to buy a 3080 at some point, not today though!

Can anyone link me on OCUK to the sort of psu I should be looking for?

Thanks
 
It has 672w across it's quad 12v rails so it should be ok but just to be sure use two seperate pci-e leads to power the card and not the pair that are daisy chained on a single lead. I would hold on for a while though as there appears to be a 20Gb 3080 coming although no doubt it will be even more expensive and suck even more power. See here.
 
pastymuncher said:
It has 672w across it's quad 12v rails so it should be ok but just to be sure use two seperate pci-e leads to power the card and not the pair that are daisy chained on a single lead. I would hold on for a while though as there appears to be a 20Gb 3080 coming although no doubt it will be even more expensive and suck even more power. See here.
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Thankyou.

yes I’m going to hold off until the dust settles and both vendors have fully launched. My 2080 will cope just fine till then!
 
pastymuncher said:
It has 672w across it's quad 12v rails so it should be ok but just to be sure use two seperate pci-e leads to power the card and not the pair that are daisy chained on a single lead. I would hold on for a while though as there appears to be a 20Gb 3080 coming although no doubt it will be even more expensive and suck even more power. See here.
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In terms of this daisy chaining I checked my cable and wow your right! It’s two 8 pin heads coming from one pcie power slot on the PSU.
It’s going to look a bit ugly in my case if I use a second set and have two Unconnected 8pin plugs ‘Flapping’ around, can these power leads be bought individually where they don’t split?
 
Brazo said:
In terms of this daisy chaining I checked my cable and wow your right! It’s two 8 pin heads coming from one pcie power slot on the PSU.
It’s going to look a bit ugly in my case if I use a second set and have two Unconnected 8pin plugs ‘Flapping’ around, can these power leads be bought individually where they don’t split?
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I have always used braided cable extensions so that the daisy chained connector is out of sight. I just plug the extension into the primary connector and have never had any problems. My current psu though has individual pci-e leads so no daisy chaining going on.
 
pastymuncher said:
I have always used braided cable extensions so that the daisy chained connector is out of sight. I just plug the extension into the primary connector and have never had any problems. My current psu though has individual pci-e leads so no daisy chaining going on.
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So I shouldn’t use just this cable in the image instead use two of these , using one set of 8pin plugs from each? If so I could always cut one set of and shrink wrap it ;)
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I would have thought that you should be ok with that type as it has a extra 4 wires. I was thinking it was one of the 8 pin ones that split into a pair of daisy chained cables at the gpu end which may indeed have a pair of connectors but you would then be sucking all of that power down through just 8 wires. I have seen quite a few melted connectors at the psu end of that type where the gpu has drawn too much power for the cable/connector.
 
Somewhere there is a video that tests the power consumption and for a mildy overclocked 3080 the recommendation from them is a 650W PSU. 700W will be just fine.
 
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