Spec me a new PSU in this day and age?

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PC is getting on a bit, I'm not sure I need to replace anything as it does what I need, but I'm conscious my PSU is now getting onto a decade and the fan seems to be a bit noisier than I remember. Can someone spec me something that will last another decade for not crazy money? Now that xbitlabs and the like are dead I don't really know where to get my reviews anymore.

I'm currently on:
Ryzen 1700
1080Ti (yes that old)

I might replace the components but it would likely be with middle-of-the-road stuff. If I upgrade it'll be because I want parts that I can get waterblocks for so I can finally play about with DIY watercooling, if only I could still get a waterblock for the 1080Ti (it's a non-standard KFA2).
 
shroomz said:
Now that xbitlabs and the like are dead I don't really know where to get my reviews anymore.
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hwbusters has a lot of reviews.

From the current prices on OCUK, I'd go with this one, has a 10 year warranty, so hopefully good for the decade you want:

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £103.94 (includes delivery: £3.99)​

Review here:

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hwbusters has a lot of reviews.

From the current prices on OCUK, I'd go with this one, has a 10 year warranty, so hopefully good for the decade you want:

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £103.94 (includes delivery: £3.99)​

Review here:

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That's cool what about the unknown manufacturers of some of the bits though? I've not come across great wall before, I guess they must license for a lot of resalers?
 
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clone said:
Corsair has great warranty and customer service, cant fault the brand, 850 watt will be fine.
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I'm afraid I'm not on speaking terms with corsair after a set of their speakers and headset broke years ago, I'm still not quite over it :D, thanks I'd have agreed with a hx850i or something in the past
 
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That's cool what about the unknown manufacturers of some of the bits though?
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Yeah, that's something worth noting, but they've been making PSUs for quite awhile and their reliability record is fine (so far as I know).

The problem is that if you do a search for 750/850 PSUs on OCUK, very few models are available (even the TUF appears to be out of stock now :o ) and the prices for comparable PSUs on preorder are much higher.

E.g. MSI's A850G is £140, Seasonic's GX-850 is £140 and Gigabyte's UD850GM is £120, but you'd be a brave man to buy one of those (given Gigabyte's recent PSU history). The Aerocool model is cheaper, but I can't find a reputable review anywhere and while the Phanteks AMP GH is likely to be fine, I haven't seen any reviews of that either and the warranty is 8 year instead of 10 on the TUF Gold.

If I was prepared to spend the extra on a "known quantity", I'd get Antec's HCG Pro Platinum, since even though it is expensive, you do get a platinum rating and it is based on Seasonic's Vertex.

Of course, you can shop around too, but I'm just going by what we can link you.
 
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can only speak to corsair's psu's
they test well typically. low fan noise. low ripple. 10yr warranty.
filtering what is in stock here. there is just the rmx1000 and rmx750 "shift" versions. they trump all others in the list in my opinion. including seasonic's vertex platform.
the more expensive seasonics are very good, as are bequiets. most of them are probably fine. but i see what i see in the review tests.
doesn't matter what brand you get. occasionally a lemon slips through q.a.
 
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shroomz said:
That's cool what about the unknown manufacturers of some of the bits though? I've not come across great wall before, I guess they must license for a lot of resalers?
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Great Wall was the OEM for the original Corsair SF psu's and they were arguably by far the best SFF psu's on the market. I would have no problem with Great Wall being the OEM.
 
Bit of a thread bump, the PSU tier list doesn't seem to have had a recent update as there are units for sale I can't find on there. From the list of OcUK in-stock available units around 800W ish (still the same hardware), any feedback on the two others below in addition to the Asus above? I've fallen down a bit of a rabbit hole that I'm not sure whether I want an FDB fan or a double ball bearing fan inside the thing. My EVGA G2 1300 has done well until recently, I think it's probably just the temperature sensor inside that's gone so probably repairable as the only issue I'm getting is that the PSU fan spins at 100% all the time. I doubt EVGA will want anything to do with it nowadays at ~12-13 years old so I could open it up and try; I might see if they will repair it once their site is back online.

Two other options:
www.overclockers.co.uk

Antec HCG 850 Pro Platinum 850W ATX3.1 Full modular Power Supply

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Asus now £130 not just £100ish.

E - also, I'm a bit confused by just how much the PCIe connectors have moved on. I'm running 1 x 1080Ti which takes 1 x 6 pin (6+2 but the 2 are unclipped) and 1 x 8 pin PCIe (6+2) cables. Nowadays it looks like everything current runs off of 1 x 12 pin cable of higher rating. But how will I bodge the 12 pin cable to fit into 14 pins worth of socket - even if the new 12 pin splits into 2 x 6pins, I'm still missing 2 pins unless it's OK to run without those. Are these PSUs still backward compatible to that extent?
 
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I'd go for the Antec. 10 Year Warranty. Superflower = I couldn't find any mention of a Warranty on OCUK's spec page or on Superflower's Website. When I bought mine (550 watt Platinum) in 2019 it had 5 year warranty?

Spec on the Antec, it says there are 3 6+2 pin PCI-E cables included. AMD GFX cards still run on that connector as well as older NV GFX cards. Buy the Antec with confidence.
 
If I remember right EVGA had 10 year warranties on the G2/P2/T2 series so it's well outside that now. Superflower while they built damn fine psu's (EVGA's were built by Superflower back then) they lagged behind their competitors when it came to warranties and offered 3 years for bronze and either 5 or 7 years on the rest depending on the series.

Right now I would seriously consider the Antec's. They are cracking units built by Seasonic although I feel they are a bit overpriced.

The Superflower Leadex III series are also excellent psu's and are more favourably priced and have a 10 year warranty.

The Asrock Steel Legend seems to be a good psu and has had good reviews. It's a HEC built unit although it seems to be of a far higher quality than their usual efforts and has a 10 year warranty.

The latest Corsair RMx series is suspect and there have been several failures so I wouldn't buy one of those. Likewise the Corsaie RMe series has been cheaped out on and they are not as good as the units they replaced and only have a 7 year warranty instead of the 10 years the previous version had.
 
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E - also, I'm a bit confused by just how much the PCIe connectors have moved on. I'm running 1 x 1080Ti which takes 1 x 6 pin (6+2 but the 2 are unclipped) and 1 x 8 pin PCIe (6+2) cables. Nowadays it looks like everything current runs off of 1 x 12 pin cable of higher rating. But how will I bodge the 12 pin cable to fit into 14 pins worth of socket - even if the new 12 pin splits into 2 x 6pins, I'm still missing 2 pins unless it's OK to run without those. Are these PSUs still backward compatible to that extent?
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The 12/16 pin connector (known as 12VHPWR or 12v-2x6) is exclusive to newer nvidia cards (with a couple of exceptions from Intel and AMD), so you don't need to worry about it.

The old PCIE 8-pins are present on every PSU, including the newer ATX 3.x PSUs with the 12/16 pin connector, but I'd be aware that some PSUs have a very small number of CPU/PCIE ports on their modular panel and with cards that have multiple connectors (mainly a problem with 3) you might have to use a 12VHPWR/12v-2x6 to 8 pin cable, which is an abomination I'd avoid at all costs.
 
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