What PSUs do you guys recommend?

I always overspec and I've never regretted it, currently running 750W Seasonic Prime Gold and it's silent, my old Corsair AX850 was still going strong after 8 years, but it was quite noisy and it made sense to upgrade when spending a substantial amount on a new build. That said you can definitely spend less on a good quality PSU and save a few quid.

I've got a 12 year warranty, so basically it's going to cost me £10 a year.
 
Darujhistan said:
I always overspec and I've never regretted it, currently running 750W Seasonic Prime Gold and it's silent, my old Corsair AX850 was still going strong after 8 years, but it was quite noisy and it made sense to upgrade when spending a substantial amount on a new build. That said you can definitely spend less on a good quality PSU and save a few quid.

I've got a 12 year warranty, so basically it's going to cost me £10 a year.
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I definitely appreciate the longer warranties for some supplies, it's one of the reasons I would spend a little bit more under certain circumstances.
 
Gray2233 said:
I definitely appreciate the longer warranties for some supplies, it's one of the reasons I would spend a little bit more under certain circumstances.
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Yes, horses for courses and personal appetite for risk. I can understand a budget builder not wanting to stick a Titanium rated PSU in their build. Best advice is avoid the bargain basement, no brand PSUs and you should be mostly okay.
 
Troezar said:
Yes, horses for courses and personal appetite for risk. I can understand a budget builder not wanting to stick a Titanium rated PSU in their build. Best advice is avoid the bargain basement, no brand PSUs and you should be mostly okay.
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The following is actually a decent resource:

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1116640-psu-tier-list-40/

I don't 100% agree with it, but for people who are unsure I'd say it's accurate enough to keep them out of trouble.
 
Gray2233 said:
The following is actually a decent resource:

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1116640-psu-tier-list-40/

I don't 100% agree with it, but for people who are unsure I'd say it's accurate enough to keep them out of trouble.
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Agreed I don't think I completely agree either. But a good rough guide. Everyone I know running Seasonic have had very good experiences and they actually make the PSUs unlike most of the branded products. That said the standards are a lot higher these days.
 
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.
 
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opethdisciple said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
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Also it's most unlikely Nvidia will expect people to have a 1kW power supply to run a gpu.
 
opethdisciple said:
Also it's most unlikely Nvidia will expect people to have a 1kW power supply to run a gpu.
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The only reason you would want a 1kw+ psu is if you are running a 64 core threadripper with 2 2080ti's in SLI. For Joe average a decent 650w gold unit is plenty even with top end hardware.
 
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