Upgrade advice please...

JollyJamma said:
You're welcome.

I'd think that a very well made PSU will be a good investment and going for the new standard just adds legs to that long term purchase.

I'm happy with my AM4 system as the new AM5 and Intel products are too expensive for my wallet but it doesn't mean I wouldn't love to buy them.
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just taking a look at that thor psu..is that the new connector for the gpu on there..is so, def worth paying extra not to have those **** splitters ruining the look of build(gpu dependent of course)
 
Craig_d1 said:
just taking a look at that thor psu..is that the new connector for the gpu on there..is so, def worth paying extra not to have those **** splitters ruining the look of build(gpu dependent of course)
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I was more thinking about the transient loads being handled better with the communication wires from the psu to the GPU personally.
 
JollyJamma said:
I was more thinking about the transient loads being handled better with the communication wires from the psu to the GPU personally.
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Seeing as the new nvidia 4090 series cards come with a 4 way splitter, a current gen psu with right power capacity should be able to handle it no problem, or nvidia wouldn’t sell their gpu’s with splitter, as would leave them open to class action lawsuit (esp in U.S.). a current gen quality psu will do the job no problem, so for me comes down to do you want to plug in 4 sets of standard pcie cables into a card(each handling 150w), or 1 new cable(which can handle 600W)...both is a max of 600w so if there's a massive power spike, both will be in trouble, as will exceed amount of power that can be delivered to gpu(plus 75 w on both from pice slot from mobo)
 
Still waiting for the Asus 1000w PSU - still shows as 'pre-order'.
The Thermaltake Toughpower 1200w ATX3.0 is in stock now, for £70 more.
Should I change it to that (is it overkill?) or wait?
 
Craig_d1 said:
Seeing as the new nvidia 4090 series cards come with a 4 way splitter, a current gen psu with right power capacity should be able to handle it no problem, or nvidia wouldn’t sell their gpu’s with splitter, as would leave them open to class action lawsuit (esp in U.S.). a current gen quality psu will do the job no problem, so for me comes down to do you want to plug in 4 sets of standard pcie cables into a card(each handling 150w), or 1 new cable(which can handle 600W)...both is a max of 600w so if there's a massive power spike, both will be in trouble, as will exceed amount of power that can be delivered to gpu(plus 75 w on both from pice slot from mobo)
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Where do we land on the new GPU power adapter and the recent melting fiasco? Class action lawsuit? #meltgate?

I can see why EVGA left the Nvidia partnership.
 
JollyJamma said:
Where do we land on the new GPU power adapter and the recent melting fiasco? Class action lawsuit? #meltgate?

I can see why EVGA left the Nvidia partnership.
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Hard to tell, as hard to know how many people are actually affected...It's not the psu's that are failing though, it's the 4 way splitter, and even then might not be that. Saw yesterday someone that has a atx3.0 psu had their 16pin connector melt and that's just the one connection(and melted at the gpu end), so could just be the amount of power going thru such a small connection, so would that mitigate a redesign of the connector(that would be a huge cost as would result in class action as people would want full refunds for their psu's)..personally don't quiter understand why they made them so small..the power hungry cards already had 3 x8 pin chunky connectors..they could have made 1 the size or 2x8 lets say, and made it chunky and robust, don't think people would have complained(or even 1.5x an 8 pin connector)..damn things transferring 4x the juice
#going to have to do another build soon. Think I'm going for my rm1000x again and seriously looking at the 7900xtx..if rast performance is 1.5x(be cautious) a 6950xt for $100 less selling price, and from the 6950xt reviews on hardware unboxed, I'd be happy with that...can't say I did much gaming with RT with my 3080fe so far..turned it on for control for a bit, and looked good, but basically played it without it on
 
Craig_d1 said:
personally don't quiter understand why they made them so small..
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Nvidia, this is all on them. They wanted the new connector to be as small as possible so they could make smaller PCBs for their newer cards. By trying to save £0.10 on the manufacturing with having smaller PCB they have created this entire issue.
 
Still waiting on this atx3 PSU, been on back order for weeks now.
As I am going to be running a 3090, should I keep waiting or buy an older PSU? (If so, which one?).
Thanks
 
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