What PSUs do you guys recommend?

opethdisciple · 4 Mar 2020 at 10:52

I am thinking of purchasing a new case (Cooler Master H500M) and thought by the time I am doing a rebuild I might as well replace my PSU as well....

Nothing wrong with my current PSU, but it is quite old now. I'm quite sure I purchased it in 2012 and it quite possibly will be fine to carry on, but I am doing the rebuild now and am planning on getting an Nvidia 3080 in the future so should probably look at replacing the PSU.

What do people recommend? I don't have high requirements. Nothing extra in the PC other than the usual. 1 SSD, 1 NVME and 1 soon to be high end GPU.

I noticed a 2080ti for example requires a 650w PSU so with that in mind please recommend me what you would buy to future proof your selves.

Thanks

opethdisciple · 4 Mar 2020 at 10:59

Is 850w sufficient or should I am for 1000w?

opethdisciple · 4 Mar 2020 at 11:12

Ok... I'll stick with an 850w PSU.

I got the 650 value for the 2080ti from the strix product page on this site.

I guess they mean 650w to cover the entire system.

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So it says here, minimum 650w

opethdisciple · 4 Mar 2020 at 11:26

Ok, cheers.

I am right to replace the PSU right... 8 years is getting on a bit?

opethdisciple · 4 Mar 2020 at 11:49

Gray2233 said:
What's the exact model of your current PSU?

Hmm... Not sure right now.. would have to dig it up later tonight. I know it's a Thermaltake Toughpower 850w from 2012.

It could be this: Thermaltake Toughpower W0172RU 850W

opethdisciple · 4 Mar 2020 at 15:02

hornetstinger said:
I like qtec gold dual fanPSU, it means I have to buy a new pc and house every 3 months.

Looks great. Purchased.

opethdisciple · 5 Mar 2020 at 22:44

The one I was looking at buying was the Corsair RM850x.

Seems to get good reviews. My only concern is we don't know yet what the power requirements will be for the 3000 series. I know going by looking at the 2080tis that in general 600 - 650w is sufficient but we never know.

opethdisciple · 6 Mar 2020 at 09:41

Joxeon said:
Generally as tech advances power efficiency improves so if you look at the 1080ti to rtx 2080ti you see a fall which will almost certainly be replicated when going from a rtx 2080ti to 3080ti, it's the same with CPUs with zen2 being much more efficient than zen +, the odd man out in this is Intel in which just gets more power hungry.

Also it's most unlikely Nvidia will expect people to have a 1kW power supply to run a gpu.