Whats the sweet spot for a hardware/Game test rig?

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Armageus said:
Surely depends on what you plan on testing?
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MagicBoy said:
What are you testing? There's the answer...
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i just updated the title to be a bit more specific as i did make it vague doh!

i dont know what hardware yet, just i had a system before for testing hardware and gaming to which i started youtube channel for, but was on a low end scale and with a bit more spare time currently i want to get back at it.

right now im thinking of using a basic system i just built that sports an Asrock A320M which is why i said about no overclocking and its fitted with an A6 9500 which will enable bios updates for ryzen, but im using an old 300w dell psu i salvaged to make sure the system runs, so i would need to upgrade that before anything else.

I suppose what im asking is for a single card setup, what is the sweet spot ie like 550w or greater!, basically something that wont need to be changed when the cpu/gpu gets changed, i wouldnt want to be too limited.
 
ExoMale said:
thanks for replies.




i just updated the title to be a bit more specific as i did make it vague doh!

i dont know what hardware yet, just i had a system before for testing hardware and gaming to which i started youtube channel for, but was on a low end scale and with a bit more spare time currently i want to get back at it.

right now im thinking of using a basic system i just built that sports an Asrock A320M which is why i said about no overclocking and its fitted with an A6 9500 which will enable bios updates for ryzen, but im using an old 300w dell psu i salvaged to make sure the system runs, so i would need to upgrade that before anything else.

I suppose what im asking is for a single card setup, what is the sweet spot ie like 550w or greater!, basically something that wont need to be changed when the cpu/gpu gets changed, i wouldnt want to be too limited.
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Something that can take pretty much any cpu or gpu combo, something like a Seasonic 650 would be where my money goes. I have a 750 seasonic running 7 low end GPU's so yea for literally any cpu/gpu combo test it's got to be something thats about 650.
 
I would advise to get a quality one with a good warranety like 7 or 10 years. I tend to get gold EVGA (made by superflower I believe). Some of the corsairs now have 10 yr warrantys.
 
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