Quick Question, Worth going for a 1000w PSU over a 750/850 PSU

Meridiusuk

Meridiusuk

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Hi there

So is it worth going for a 1000w PSU over a 750/850 PSU at the same price

Seasonic gold Ultra 1000W
or
Seasonic 850w focus/prime titinium

all are the same price at other places

I ask this as i know 1000W is over kill for any system but i ask this becasue the 1000W can be had for the same price as the 850W at the moment and are the same brand.

looking to build a 3900x or 3950x with a Vega card and gigabyte x570 master

would i benifift or lose andything by going the !000W over 850W like heat of noise.

thanks
 
Stu said:
The Prime Titanium range has quality components... That would be my choice.
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so what your saying the seasonic Gold Ultra Prime does not have quality compnents as the titainum i find that strange. what i am asking is there more problems with the 1000w over the 850w or 750w would it be wotrht going for the 1000w for the same price ? as i dont need it but also dont want to get one if the 1000W gets hotter or sounds louder.
 
The gfx card I have says min 750w so I was looking at the 850 to be sure. But I did notice the 1000w on sale at the same price now.

Yep I read there is a new focus model out that prob will have the fixes and problems sorted from the past. Also the primes are getting replaced to.

The problem is I thought the older models would have dropped in price but instead the new models are very expensive and the older models have went up in price and are about £30 behind the new range and are still silly money.
 
Phil2008 said:
Id go for the lower wattage one as it will have better quality stuff in it.. You get what you pay for these days.
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that makes no sence at all, a lower Wattage PSU would not mean better quality components. to be honest a higher wattage unit should have better components to get it higher.
 
Anyhoo, I just seen a 1000W Titanium Seasonic on sale and that is cheaper than these right now

850w gold, platinum and Titanium (alll higher priced)
750w platinum and Titanium (gold is lower priced)
650w Titanium (gold & Platinum are lower price)

the only PSU i can find that is the same price as the 1000w Titanium at the moment is 750w platinum version, as 850w versions are all more expensive. Even the new 850w focus platinums are slighty higher or same price at the moment.

so what would you go for ? i know i dont need 1000W but to get the same type of psu and price i would need to get the 750w platinum or focus 850w platinum.

the only cheaper PSU than the 1000w Titanium Seasonic is the

Seasonic Focus PX 750
Seasonic PRIME Ultra 750

Seasonic Focus PX 850
Seasonic PRIME Gold 850

thanks just thought i would ask as the 1000W Titanium is on a good price at the mement

thanks
 
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I have always bought seasonic since an antec psu decided to blow my motherboard years ago instead of turning itself of. Never had another brand since seasonic.

I am not to clued up on other psu manufactures as I have always been toled seasonic are one of the top psu's out there.

I am sure I read that some corsair psu where not that good ? Or it depended on what was inside them as I say I am not to clued up on what manufacture use what type of manufacture inside there psus.
 
pastymuncher said:
Corsair has been gradually redesigning and relaunching their psu line up to bring them up to a very good standard. The once awful CX series are now fairly good and worth a look for a budget build although there are cheaper alternatives. The worst of the remaining line up are the awful Corsair VS series so they are to be avoided. The new Corsair RM series are very good PSU's. It's built by CWT (one of the worlds biggest manufacturer of psu's) to Corsairs specifications. It's fully modular with quality all black cables, is gold rated for efficiency and has all of it's 750w available on a single 12v rail. You can read a review of it here.

I am known on here to be very insistant on picking a quality psu so if it wasn't any good then I wouldn't have recommended it. I will only ever recommend components that I would be 100% happy to use myself and as the psu is argueably the single most important component in a pc it has to be good for me to recommend it.

Ironically that Antec psu that blew up on you (can happen with any brand) may well have been a Seasonic built unit as Antec uses them as one of their oem's. Brand loyalty based on a single rogue psu failing is not sensible as it rules out many excellent alternatives. In fact brand loyalty, no matter what it's for makes very little sense these days.
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thanks

that site you linked to has the review of the psu i found to and gets a good review also

https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/reviews/seasonic-prime-ultra-platinum-1000w-psu,5397.html
 
pastymuncher said:
Sorry, I was looking at the titanium version for some reason. It's actually 2.5x the price of the Corsair RM750 which is still a ridiculous amount to spend while gaining very little for the extra cost.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
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The whole point in this post is because I found the psu a lot cheaper than your post here for the 1000w Also you can not compare 750w prices to the 1000w prices. The 1000w price is a sale price and prob a one off and not the normal price. This is the reason in the post to see if I might as well get the 1000w as there the same price as lower wattage models.
 
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