New build psu suggestions

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Hi, would anyone mind suggesting a psu for my new build?

Ryzen 1800x
Vega 56 pulse

These are the main parts that are definitely going to be in the build as they are already brought.

Would preferably want a budget psu that will get the job with a bit of headroom and modular.

Cheers.
 
Ah alright yea just read a bit and everyone said you can’t go cheap on one because its the part powering everything. Cheers ill look now at that!
 
A better choice would be the Gigabyte Aorus P750 750w. This one has a 10 year warranty compared to the Bitfenix Whisper M's 7 years. It's a fiver cheaper too plus you get a extra 100w. It's gold rated and fully modular with black ribbon cables and has excellent quality internal components. The downside is that every cable has capacitors sticking out of them. The Bitfenix Whisper M has them on the 24 pin cable but they are covered by a large shroud. On the Gigabyte they stick out of the plugs. Supposedly they are there to give cleaner power delivery but surely they could have come up with a better solution. It's still a excellent psu though.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Avoid a budget psu at all costs especially with a power hungry card suce as Vega. One thing I will advise is that whichever psu you end up with power the Vega with two seperate pci-e cables and don't power it from the pair of leads on a single cable. Using a single cable with Vega be it a 56 or 64 can throw up stability problems. This is sorted by using a single connector from two seperate cables. This is also a reason to get a psu above 550w because 550w and under usually only have a single pci-e lead.

Thanks that’s always good to know! And yea that looks like a very nice psu, especially it coming with 10 years warranty.
 
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