Are there any ATX 3.0 PUS on sale already?

I'm still on Ryzen 5 2600 & 3600 with GFX that are even older. I've got EVGA & Superflower 550 watters powering both & are really overkill for my daily use. Unless either go pop or I win the lottery I dont see me buying ATX 3.0 PSU's anytime soon.
You have graphic card that is older than Ryzen 5 2600 that is still running fine, you dont need to buy ATX 3.0 PSU anytime soon unless your graphic card go pop and you go buy RTX 4000 series or Radeon 7000 series GPU that use 12VHPWR connector then you will need to buy ATX 3.0 PSU to power it. If both RTX 4000 series and Radeon 7000 series will supplied 12VHPWR adapter then that will be great. But when you use it with your EVGA & Superflower 550W PSUs and try to run very demand new ray tracing game, if either your old PSUs shutdown instantly to protect it from power spike or power surge prevent damage to your GPU, HDD, SSD, RAM and motherboard. Your current PSUs would not handle it so you will definitely need to buy ATX 3.0 PSU.

I know what will happen because I saw it with my friend in 2008 when I helped him to installed new motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ and Geforce 8600 GTS, he wanted to played GTA IV after he found out his old Voodoo 5 5500 cant run GTA IV. Replaced old Socket A motherboard, AMD Athlon 1200 and 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 AGP I helped him build it back in 2001. But we not thought about PSU, his old Q-Tec 450W still worked since bought it in 2001 used with Voodoo 5 5500 AGP. I assumed it would able to run it fine with Geforce 8600 GTS with supplied PCI Express power adapter so his PC booted and reached desktop fine, he was able to browsed internet for hours fine and able to run GTA IV fine but after 5 mins his PC shutdown instantly, it happened to every 3D games too he tried ran shutdown instantly after 5 mins. I realised his ancient Q-Tec 450W ATX 1.0 PSU do not have enough 12V power required to run Geforce 8600 GTS stable, I told him he will need a new PSU, I ordered Antec Truepower New 550W PSU with quad 12V rails, he installed it and GTA IV ran great without PC shutdown instantly.

I remembered my first AT 250W PSU in 1996 but cant remembered brand, it ran fine lasted for 4 years until it went pop in 2000. I asked my dad for a new PSU while he was home for lunch break. After work in Glasgow he went to Infiniti Computers in Cook Street asked assistant for new PSU and he bought Q-Tec 300W ATX 1.0 PSU for about £15, it worked fine but it was hot and loud then in 2003 I decided to cleaned my PC removed all dusts and found PSU has full of dusts inside but I would not risked opened it to cleaned dusts off so I dumped it and ordered Antec Truepower 430W for £75.74 after read reviews, PSU went fine for 2 years then I sold it and bought Antec Truepower 2.0 550W ATX 2.0 with dual 12V rails and 6 pin PCI Express in 2005 for about £79, PSU worked fine for 2 years until it went pop in 2007 then I ordered Antec NeoPower 550W Modular PSU ATX 2.2 with triple 12V rails for about £85. PSU worked fine, in 2010 I gave it to my sister and ordered OCZ Z Series 850W for my PC then in 2011 she told me her Antec NeoPower 550W Modular PSU went pop while browsed internet. I gave her my 1 year old OCZ Z Series 850W and ordered £147.58 Corsair AX850 Gold for my PC, AX850 worked fine until it went pop in 2015 and I ordered Corsair AX860 Platnium which my PC run fine for 7 years now. My sister old PC is in other room, 12 years old OCZ Z Series 850W PSU was surprised still worked fine, been tested with RTX 2080 2 years ago ran ray tracing games on old AMD Phenom II X4 940.
 
:confused: I dont know why you would argue otherwise.

But hey how did you was able to afforded almost tripled £250 for £649 RTX 3080 Founders Edition you currently used mentioned in your signature?

I see you have Corsair SF750 PSU in your signature, OCUK has it listed.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £169.85 (includes delivery: £9.90)​


You bought Corsair SF750 for about £159.95 so you considered £159.95 cheap and affordable? If so then Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 750W is not far off at affordable about £190ish until Corsair launch ATX 3.0 PSUs you probably will see Corsair SF750 ATX 3.0 PSU for maybe £160-170ish.

I sold my RTX 3060 TI to a crypto miner for £650 so it was a free upgrade and I got the SF750 on special at £100. I certainly wouldn't buy them at the current prices you posted.

My point was that spending close to £200 is a larger percentage of a total build cost than most people are prepared to spend.

I agree that spending £170 on PSU is somewhat easier to justify but that ignores that the cost of the rest of the rig isn't going to be at a premium.

I'm sure that the RTX 4000 series isn't going to be affordable for most people.
 
...Q-Tec 300W ATX 1.0 PSU for about £15, it worked fine but it was hot and loud...

...bought Antec Truepower 2.0 550W ATX 2.0 with dual 12V rails and 6 pin PCI Express in 2005 for about £79, PSU worked fine for 2 years until it went pop in 2007 then I ordered Antec NeoPower 550W Modular PSU ATX 2.2 with triple 12V rails for about £85. PSU worked fine, in 2010 I gave it to my sister ... then in 2011 she told me her Antec NeoPower 550W Modular PSU went pop
Good thing it was noisy, because that was the only thing preventing it from blowing up.
Q-Tec was Chinese fireworks brand:
https://www.hexus.net/tech/reviews/...wer-supply-unit-roundup-taoyuan-2005/?page=19

And lots of those early Antec PSUs were famous for CWT's use of uber garbage Fuhjyyu capacitors.
CWT must have made them semi-free for Antec to have kept using those as many years as they did considering that there must have been quite a lots of RMAs.

Don't remember exactly who made those particular NeoPower models, but IIRC they used standard Chinese capacitors.
So that was about the expected life span at least with waste heat of the time.
 
Good thing it was noisy, because that was the only thing preventing it from blowing up.
Q-Tec was Chinese fireworks brand:
https://www.hexus.net/tech/reviews/...wer-supply-unit-roundup-taoyuan-2005/?page=19

And lots of those early Antec PSUs were famous for CWT's use of uber garbage Fuhjyyu capacitors.
CWT must have made them semi-free for Antec to have kept using those as many years as they did considering that there must have been quite a lots of RMAs.

Don't remember exactly who made those particular NeoPower models, but IIRC they used standard Chinese capacitors.
So that was about the expected life span at least with waste heat of the time.
I wished I took notes of all my old PSUs UL numbers to find out who OEMs manufactured years ago.

Not sure about Antec Truepower 430W, very hard to find OEM manufacturer on google.

Antec Truepower 2.0 550W was the high end Antec PSU OEM manufacturer is Seasonic.
Antec NeoPower 550W Modular PSU OEM manufacturer is Seasonic. I remembered Antec reused same NeoPower model in Neo and HE to saved budget costs.


Antec Truepower New 550W PSU OEM manufacturer is Seasonic.


I remembered back in 2010 people on NVNews forum advised me not to buy Antec PSU again with multi rails because they told it is unreliable, it would not able to handle more powerful GTX 470 so they advised me to get a PSU with single rail, recommended OCZ Z Series 850W. They also advised me to avoided semi modular because they said it not reliable as wired power cables.

OCZ Z Series 850W/850M PSU OEM manufacturer is Sirtec.


Corsair AX850 Gold PSU OEM manufacturer is Seasonic.

I remembered back in 2011 after read review of Corsair first full modular PSU, I was suprised to see many people on forums bought it said full modular cables are now reliable so I decided to ordered Corsair AX850, I hated messed wired cables management.

Corsair AX860 Platinum PSU OEM manufacturer is Seasonic.

I was read very concerned news about 12VHPWR power adapter safety risk.


Think I will avoid adapter and rather buy ATX 3.0 PSU with native 12VHPWR power cable just to be safe. You really dont want to try out 12VHPWR power adapter on ATX 2.0 PSU and see your house on fire.
 
Antec Truepower 2.0 550W was the high end Antec PSU OEM manufacturer is Seasonic.
True"bomb" 1 and 2 were CWT with Fuhjyyus, just like "Smartbombs".
Also NeoPower 380/480 were made by CWT. (insides clearly not Seasonic)
Again NeoHE was Seasonic.

I remembered back in 2010 people on NVNews forum advised me not to buy Antec PSU again with multi rails because they told it is unreliable, it would not able to handle more powerful GTX 470 so they advised me to get a PSU with single rail, recommended OCZ Z Series 850W. They also advised me to avoided semi modular because they said it not reliable as wired power cables.


I remembered back in 2011 after read review of Corsair first full modular PSU, I was suprised to see many people on forums bought it said full modular cables are now reliable so I decided to ordered Corsair AX850, I hated messed wired cables management.
At least nearly all Seasonic made Antecs were UL level 6 devices meaning those separate current limiters existed only on paper.
(can't say for Neo HE because of blurry low res pics in reviews)

So people were just following fashion...
 
True"bomb" 1 and 2 were CWT with Fuhjyyus, just like "Smartbombs".
Also NeoPower 380/480 were made by CWT. (insides clearly not Seasonic)
Again NeoHE was Seasonic.

At least nearly all Seasonic made Antecs were UL level 6 devices meaning those separate current limiters existed only on paper.
(can't say for Neo HE because of blurry low res pics in reviews)

So people were just following fashion...
Found Antec NeoPower 550W label I recognised it was exactly same label I remembered my old Antec NeoPower 550W had.

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Model NeoHE550
UL Level 6 E176105

E176105 is Seasonic.

I found Antec TruePower 430W label I recognised it was the same label.

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E161451 is CWT.

Found Antec TruePower 2.0 550W label I recognised it was exactly same label my old Antec TruePower 2.0 550W had.

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Model TPII-550
E176105 is Seasonic.

It seemed there are 2 different Antec TruePower 2.0 550W models. One from Seasonic and other from CWT.

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Model TP2-550EPS12V
E161451 is CWT
 
silverstone has just released the Hela 850R which is fully ATX3.0 and platinum cybenetics rated. Available off of amazon.com for $215 US. So not cheap (really, what is these days?), but the real deal.
$215 for Silverstone Hela 850R look like very expensive for £220ish. Silverstone seemed very expensive brand like ASUS so Thermaltake will be much cheaper than Silverstone and ASUS.

I found ASUS announced prices for ASUS ROG Loki PSUs in Philippines:

ROG-LOKI-750P-SFX-L-GAMING – PHP 11,930
ROG-LOKI-850P-SFX-L-GAMING – PHP 13,420
ROG-LOKI-1000P-SFX-L-GAMING – PHP 15,650

That included 12% VAT in Philippines, I removed 12% VAT and converted to US Dollars:

ROG-LOKI-750P-SFX-L-GAMING – $185
ROG-LOKI-850P-SFX-L-GAMING – $208
ROG-LOKI-1000P-SFX-L-GAMING – $243

Converted to GBP with 20% VAT included:

ROG-LOKI-750P-SFX-L-GAMING – £190ish
ROG-LOKI-850P-SFX-L-GAMING – £210ish
ROG-LOKI-1000P-SFX-L-GAMING – £250ish
 

MSI is welcoming two new ATX 3.0 compliant power supply units: the MEG Ai1300P PCIE5 and MPG A1000G PCIE5

MSI press release's first sentence is very confused and the end of press release they gave 5 product pages links.

MSI launched not 2 but actually 5 new ATX 3.0 PSUs:

MEG Ai1300P PCIE5 1300W Platinum
MEG Ai1000P PCIE5 1000W Platinum
MPG A1000G PCIE5 1000W Gold
MPG A850G PCIE5 850W Gold
MPG A750G PCIE5 750W Gold

When you visit MEG Ai1000P PCIE5 product page below...


You will notice 2 images mentioned ATX 3.0 Ready:

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But when you visit MEG A1000G PCIE5 product page below...


You will notice 2 images mentioned ATX 3.0 Compatible:

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ATX 3.0 Ready PCIe 5.0 Ready
ATX 3.0 Compatible PCIe 5 Ready

ATX 3.0 COMPATIBLE??? :confused:
 

Cooler Master launched V SFX Platinum, V Gold i series and MWE Gold V2 ATX 3.0 PSUs:

V SFX Platinum 1300 $329.99 Launch Q1 2023
V SFX Platinum 1100 $309.99 Launch Q1 2023

V Gold i850 $209.99 Launch Q4 2022
V Gold i750 $189.99 Launch Q4 2022

MWE Gold V2 ATX 3.0 1250 $199.99 Launch Q4 2022
MWE Gold V2 ATX 3.0 1050 $179.99 Launch Q4 2022
 
I wonder when 1200W Loki will be available ?? I would still buy the 1000W Loki as my current SF750 Corsair can't handle "TDP unlocked" 3080Ti.

OCUK, or anyone know when you will start selling 1000W loki?
 

ASUS announced all new TUF Gaming Gold ATX 3.0 Fully Modular PSUs:

TUF Gaming 1200W Gold ATX 3.0
TUF Gaming 1000W Gold ATX 3.0
TUF Gaming 850W Gold ATX 3.0
TUF Gaming 750W Gold ATX 3.0

ASUS increased to 10 years warranty for TUF Gaming Gold ATX 3.0 Fully Modular PSUs from previous 6 years warranty on old TUF Gaming Bronze Full Wired models.

I noticed all retailers now slashed TUF Gaming Bronze PSUs prices, I think they all working on it to clear all old stocks for arrival of new TUF Gaming Gold ATX 3.0 Fully Modular PSUs.

TUF Gaming 750W Bronze cost about £70 now, TUF Gaming 750W Gold ATX 3.0 could cost about £100ish.
 
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XPG announces XPG CYBERCORE II series Platinum ATX 3.0 PSUs:

XPG CYBERCORE II 1300 Platinum ATX 3.0
XPG CYBERCORE II 1000 Platinum ATX 3.0

I am surprised to find ADATA selling XPG brand PSUs but found it not available in UK and Europe markets but it seemed only available in US market.
 
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