PSU is dead! Spec me a new one

madindehead · 2 Mar 2015 at 20:16

Hey guys,

Building my 5820K build tonight, and powering it all up, turns out my PSU is dead. Not sure how that happened between last night and today.

Anyways: I pulled my girlfriends PSU from her system to check nothing was damaged. Seems to boot fine to the BIOS, not going ANY further until I have a better PSU.

I need a 1000W supply. Looking at the Seasonic P Series 1000w. Best PSU for the money? I hear Seasonic are the best around.

I need to order it tomorrow, so please help me out!

snips86x · 2 Mar 2015 at 20:18

Seasonic and Superflower. Can't go wrong!

RJC · 2 Mar 2015 at 20:27

What are the rest of the specs

One option:

YOUR BASKET
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 1000W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £149.99
Total : £159.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

madindehead · 2 Mar 2015 at 20:52

Rest of the specs are:

5820K (Overclocking to 4.5GHz if I can)
Asus X99-S
16GB DDR4
GTX 970 (Upgrading to 980 soon) and with the ability to SLI.

I want a PSU that will last.

snips86x · 2 Mar 2015 at 20:53

As above, that unit RJ has linked will be perfect!

pastymuncher · 2 Mar 2015 at 20:53

EVGA Supernova G2 1000w built by Superflower and based on their Leadex Gold units (essentially the same internals) but with a whopping 10 year warranty. Cheaper too.

RJC · 2 Mar 2015 at 20:54

A 750w / 850w will be fine for a dual 980 setup.

Edit: 850w will be ok.

madindehead · 2 Mar 2015 at 20:59

RJC said:
A 750w / 850w will be fine for a dual 980 setup.

Edit: 850w will be ok.

Even overclocking my 5820K? I just want to be safe

JasonM · 2 Mar 2015 at 22:02

Seasonic X 1050w for £143.99

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-021-SS

This is what I would choose.

madindehead · 2 Mar 2015 at 23:07

Looking at either a Seasonic X-Series (shame about the gold) or a SuperFlower Leadex gold. Both look damn good I might have to roll.

JasonM · 3 Mar 2015 at 04:17

I own 4 Seasonic X Golds, 3 650w's and an 1050w, 3 are in servers. Every PSU still runs, including the first I purchased in 2009.

There is no coil wine, I don't hear the fans, not even sure if they run as there is never really any dust on PSU filters, they don't run hot. They are stable and it's easy to undervolt CPU, Chipset, Memory by good amounts.

The only downside is cables on the Seasonic's are a bit short for my Silverstone FT-02 cases, however that case is a long case.

There was a number of the Seasonic Platinum's that were failing, this was around 2 years ago. I presume this is fixed, however this is why I have stayed with the X Golds.

madindehead · 3 Mar 2015 at 10:10

I think I'm gonna go for this. I know people recommended the X Gold unit. Still looks superb. But this looks amazing, and has great reviews on JonnyGuru etc

YOUR BASKET
1 x Seasonic Snow Silent 1050w '80 Plus Platinum' Power Supply - White £199.99
Total : £209.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

RJC · 3 Mar 2015 at 13:37

madindehead said:
Even overclocking my 5820K? I just want to be safe

Looking at a review of your cpu they got 320w including system with it overclocked to 4.5ghz and two 980's pull something similar - so around 650w I think your system would pull