Do I need 1000w power supply?

west1980 · 17 Feb 2017 at 13:06

Need a new power supply as current ax860 is causing me all sorts of problems,been looking at seasonic prime 850w or the prime 1000w versions.

I have 980 sli oc edition strix cards,4790k cpu,vengance pro ram 2400MHz,

I do tend to upgrade,but will a 850w psu suffice for newer 1080s in sli and new cpus' such as 6700k and will be over clocking

west1980 · 17 Feb 2017 at 22:10

Thanks for all the info , appreciated

I am leaning towards the xfx xtr as its geared towards gaming,not sure about superflower as I seen that post about the guy having issues getting a rma.

west1980 · 18 Feb 2017 at 10:39

Disco_P said:
There is no such thing as a "gaming" power supply. If anything it would put me off.

I see where your coming from,so many brands offering this and that on a power supply,but how does it put you off?

west1980 · 18 Feb 2017 at 10:56

hornetstinger said:
No, not unless you are lighting your rig with a 500W halogen outdoor lighting lamp.

west1980 · 18 Feb 2017 at 16:16

pastymuncher said:
I would take the Bitfenix Whisper over the XFX XTR as it's cheaper with a longer warranty and it's a more up to date platform. Don't get me wrong, the XFX XTR is a good psu, I wouldn't have suggested it else, it's just that it's been around for a while now and the Seasonic KM3 platform that it is based on has been around for several years. If you were interested in the Superflowers but are put off by that warranty thread there is always the EVGA versions with the longer warranties. The EVGA G2/G3/P2/T2 psu's are based on the respective Superflower units with a different fan and some other tweaks. The EVGA 550w and 650w G2/G3 have 7 year warranties but all the others have a 10 year warranty which gets processed at their UK service centre.

Superflower Leadex Gold = EVGA Supernova G2
Superflower Leadex Gold II = EVGA Supernova G3
Superflower Leadex Platinum = EVGA Supernova P2
Superflower Leadex Titanium = EVGA Supernova T2

I personally think that these are amongst the very best psu's that you can buy at the moment and the new G3 units have improved even further on the already extremely good G2 units. The downside is that they cost more than the Superflower equivalents.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x EVGA SuperNova G3 850W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £147.95

Does seem like the better choice the evga supernova g3

west1980 · 18 Feb 2017 at 19:11

drex69 said:
Just out of curiosity, what sort of problems are you getting with your ax860 ?

I have the same PSU, and have had some strange things going on with my pc over the last couple of months, and I think its something to do with the PSU.

Hybrid fan mode stopped working,pc stutting down ,reseting,real bad coil whine,been troubleshooting every part in pc and it all points to psu.