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Currently its 875w, handled 290x crossfire nicely, easily powers my now single RX580.
With the efficiencies being made in new parts I may never need to change it (of course it will fail one day).
Still using the Corsair TX 650 I won in a competition on here. Only got a stock Core i7 and 1070 GTX to power so no need to go big.
Corsair HX850i, uses around 50W idle (80+ efficiency) and about 350W load (90+ efficiency). No need to upgrade as this is a fairly new build. Last PSU was a Corsair AX750 which was pretty solid.
750W, and even that is overkill for an mATX system. I only got it because it was cheaper than the 650W I was going to go for.
Corsair TX 750w
Nothing too fancy: an OCZ Mod X Stream Pro 700W for last 6 years, powers: Intel Core i5-3350P, 16GB ram, Asus STRIX GTX970, 1x SSD, 3x HDD and some other bits & bobs with no issues.
I've got a Cooler Master Silent Pro 700W gold. Can't imagine I'll ever change it unless it breaks.
600 inches
edit: *watts
630W BeQuiet PurePowerL8 - old but solid/quiet. No plans to upgrade in the foreseeable future.
eVGA 1300W in main gaming rig.
I admit it's over the top for 1x gpu (1080ti) but it gives me the option to go SLI should I get a 2nd gpu.
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Originally Posted by blokeinkent
350W Enermax NAXN.
powers 5 hard drives and a 750ti all right. no need for anything more powerful.
V850W modular. There was a deal on and I figured it would give me options for SLI but I never went down that path.
My wife has an EVGA 1600W Platinum power supply in her rig (replaced the same 1050W Seasonic as I have in my pc after wall mounting her pc because the seasonic's fan was too loud with no case to muffle the sound)
I have a Seasonic XP3 1050W Platinum in my rig,
Yes I am planning to upgrade to the same EVGA 1600W Platinum that my wife has in her rig.
Neither of us need the power of the 1600W, but it is a choice that is made so the power supply runs quiet because the fan never spins up.
We both run fully custom watercooled gaming pc's which run completely silent. But when I am gaming on my rig the only noise I hear is from the damned power supply fan.
EVGA G2 1000W, purchased a few years back to run 680s in SLI, but now it runs my 7800X and 2070. It's definite overkill - I could get away with 650-700W no problem. So, no, I don't plan on upgrading any time soon. Maybe in another 5 years when my warranty is up.
I have downgraded from a Seasonic G series 750w (gold rated) to a BeQuiet Straight Power 11 550w (gold rated) that I recieved as a review sample on OCUK's forums. Even the 550w is more than I will ever use as the pc in my siggy along with Alphacool VPP655 pump(D5 Vario), 12x 120mm fans, 4x 200mm fans, 2x fan controllers, 2x Temp monitors and a couple of leds for the reservoir only pulls 128-275w at the wall while gaming (depending on the game) and the very max I have managed to make it pull was 367w at the wall while using OCCT's psu torture test. Idling/ internet browsing is 72w at the wall.
What people need to remember is that while the psu may be labelled as 500w, 600w etc it may not be capable of anywhere near that on it's 12v rail where you need the power. There are plenty of psu's that have significantly less on their 12v rail(s) than the overall figure on the label. A modern design, quality psu will have all or near enough all of it's power on it's 12v rail(s). A older design or cheap psu can have much less on it's 12v rail(s). Corsair's CX series were a prime example of weak 12v rails for several years after they ditsched Seasonic and switched to CWT as their oem. The CX600 only had a very poor 480w on it's 12v rail and this didn't improve until the 3rd version which had a 552w 12v rail. Now that they have ditched CWT for Great Wall on the non modular CX series they are actually a decent psu. The CX600 has been replaced by the CX650 which has a 648w 12v rail and the warranty has increased from 3 years to 5 years. It can get much worse than that though. Those so called "high power" psu's that you can buy on the likes of Ebay for £20 often have half their supposed power on the 12v rail and even then it's doubtful that they could ever provide that much without blowing up.
At the end of the day the psu is not a place to save money. Buy a quality one and it will last through several upgrades and many these days have warranties of 7 years, 10 years or even more. £80-100 may seem a lot for a quality psu but is it worth the risk of cheaping out and buying a psu that could fail and take other components with it? If things are tight rethink your other components. Do you really need that super duper top of the line factory overclocked card or could you go for the next one down and save £30-50 which you could put towards a better psu? I know where my money would go.
evga g2 850w .. hit's the sweet spot for me most of the time i'll use 40-70% of it's load . which is where you should use it ..
XFX 750W not modular unfortunately
Had my Enermax 1500w for a decade I think. It had a new fan about 4 years ago as the bearings started to go otherwise it is still going strong and I would hope if it did go wrong that the handmade design means it is easy to repair!
Back when I bought it I was running 1kw easily but now I expect half of that tops. Ironically it only seems to play lego harry potter when my 9 year old gets on it as I quit gaming 2 years ago!
There's a big solar farm only around a mile away from home. That does for me.
Seasonic Prime Ultra Titanium 850w. That's a mouthful. At the time I wanted to buy one of the best. So I went for it.
Corsair ax760
When my Corsair TX650 died (after only a couple of years, not pleased with that) power consumption of my PC build had dropped considerably, so I downsized to an EVGA 550W.
That's plenty for my Ryzen 1600x and R9 285.
650W.
At the time it seemed ott, but with the Vega 56 it's nice to know it can handle any spikes in demand.
I usually overspecify the PSU to get a quieter machine.
Mine is a 700W Cooler master 55A that's all I require for my setup just recently upgraded to RX 580 and FX-8350 so happy with the results....
With multiple PC's, it depends which one you mean.
At the liw end, there are a couple of quite basic and elderly (if they were human, they'd be pensioners and probably luving in a small villa in Marbella by now) that are there to run either specific hardware ir software, and they're of the 230w range.
At the other end is a graphics workstation with a fairly high draw. I'm not at home (home/office) to check but it's a pretty chunky Delta PSU designed to have what the graphics card needed. My recollection is that it's 750w-800w, but I'm not sure.
Then there's a server. This is the old-fashoned full-tower type with space for about a dozen HDs, and a few 5.25 devices too Currently, it has two 6-drive SCSI RAID5 arrarys in it, using hot-swap bays converting most of the 5.25 bays into trayless 3.5" SCSI bays. That, IIRC, has something around the 900w size, and again, a Delta.
My "main" PC is again a full tower, Antec 1200 from memory, with a now fairly elderly (Q6600 era, though a sljghtly newer but low thermal profile "mobile" CPU ... 9300 rinfs a bell) chop, and that, IIRC, is a gold-rated 650w Enermax.
My strategy has always been to work out what I think I need, add 25%-ish for future needs then add 25% to that, so as go never stress a PSU too highly. I want it ru ni g in the sweet spot, but not ludicrously over-specified and never, ever under-specified.
Oh, and always, always always get what I believe is a good quality unit, not one built down to a price. Once I made the mistake of relying on a 'standard' PSU in a pre-configured PC supplied by a company big enough and famous enough to know better. Then something, and I know not what (PSU fault, mains surge, lightning strike, PC poltergeist, dunno what) let go and the resulting power surge cooked a £800 processor, £1000 golden sample video board and both a RAID-5 controller and 4 HD's (about £200 for the board, and 4x£150 for the drives).
I can't prove it, but I'm convinced a well-built and adequately protected PSU would be likely or st least much more likely, to have died itself but without cooking £2500-£3000 of other bits.
Someone said earlier about never skimping on a PSU, and I wholeheartedly agree. Just be aware that neither higb power ratings nor fancy marketing claims are any guarantee of either good design or quality components/manufacturing.
For me, a good PSU is like tyres and brakes on a car/bike .... not a good place to cheap-out. Pay for quality.
Corsair CS650M
Which is an 80+ gold semi-modular unit
probably a little overkill if i'm honest.
My old PC had an 850W unit, with an overclocked FX8120 and a R9 390 plus a bucket load of HDDs, i think i needed the extra. The PC doubled as a room heater ;)
Just picked up an Antec HCG 850W in a sale.
I may build with a 650w evga soon I have the parts for my non bed room. I'm just all is fed ~: up.
Corsair 750w
Kolink 350w.
I may swap to 550w depending on GPU purchased in the future.
750W.
It's an EVGA G3 750 PSU, which I've only owned since the Black Friday week sales. I bought it partly due to it being necessary to be able to power the new GPU I bought around the same time - Vega 56 - as my previous PSU (Corsair VX450W, a model which had the reputation of being able to output 550W in a jonnyguru PSU test if I recall correctly) didn't have the correct connectors to do so.
Another reason for doing so however, was in anticipation of moving to a Ryzen 2 build when it gets released, and I thought that since my previous one was almost 9.5 years old, it made sense to get something more up-to-date anyway.
650 W.
I would have gone for a smaller rating but they don't make the Seasonic Prime Ultra Titanium PSUs any smaller. The fan never needs to run, which was a large part of the reason to buy it.
Running an EVGA Supernova P2 850W powers my system flawlessly, and still got 8 years on the warranty.
90 watt Pico PSU.
Runs 13 watt idle.
Runs Fortnite/World of Tank using 65 watt at the 220v power plug.
Why use 1000 watt, when you can have quite and cool operation ?
Seasonic X-660w. Great quality unit that I've been using for a long time. It's always been enough for my needs, although in hindsight I think I should have gone for a 750w. I have a pretty hefty over lock, and I think a 750w would keep me more in the peak efficiency range.
mines a FSP Hydro 850w.
650W - a 95W CPU & 250W GPU leaves plenty left over for mobo and a bunch of drives
EVGA Supernova 650P2.
520W.. Corsair HX modular series and has surpassed my expectations.
Old OCZ ZX1000W. Totally overkill for my rig now. Bought it when I ran tri-xfire for a eyefinity setup. Thought about buying a smaller one for ages buut cant justify the outlay when this one still works fine.
550w fanless. Hate noisy pc. Would never put up with racket for gaming pc. Run Ryzen 7 1700 geforce rtx 2070 16gb ram no issues in bfv
20KW moderated by 3 variacs supplying my CPU directly.
This allows me to make toast whist running Pifast.
1600Watt still running quad titan X. Used to run dual 1500 watt back when evga SR2 and quad gtx580 :D
EVGA 850 BQ 80+ bronze PSU.
Was considering SLI RTX 2080Ti's when I got this, but the high price of the cards killed that dream.
The power draw of the combined cards is concerning too.
Currently, PSU is powering i7 4770, 32GB RAM, 2 SSD's, 1 HDD and a GTX 1080.
620w Antec
600W More than enough for my needs.
My PC (Ryzen 7 1800X + GTX 1070) can draw around 250W from the wall on load so I specifically chose a 500W power supply for the best efficiency (this is the efficiency graph for my SX500-LG):
https://www.silverstonetek.com/image...sx500-lg-1.jpg
My main concern was noise however, as opposed to a few percentage of extra efficiency and I chose this PSU because it's effectively silent up to 50% load:
https://www.silverstonetek.com/image...sx500-lg-4.jpg
I've never gone above 50% load so I'm not sure how loud my PSU can get but the curve does show an exponential fan speed curve as load goes up.
Components have been relatively stable in terms of max power draw, if not more efficient, so I didn't bother getting a higher wattage for upgrades as I can't see my future use requiring more power.
Corsair HX850i and no need to upgrade it anytime soon. If anything, it's somewhat overkill for a system with a single GTX 1080 Ti and only 32Gb ram. But I wanted to be ready in case I ever decided to get a second GTX 1080 Ti, but that need never surfaced as a single GPU handles 1440p@165hz Gsync just fine in every game I play. Zero need for a new PSU for a very long time to come.
850W Seasonic.
rm850 for my fury x :)
I own two 1,300-watt PSUs.
EVGA 500w, which replaced my old Tagen 480w silent
EVGA 650W GS - 80+ Gold and basically silent.
It's a bit overkill for me at the moment because I sold my graphics card - but it will be great in terms of efficiency no matter what card I put in.
I currently run a PowerCool 950w Modular 80 plus.
Way overkiil for what I need, but it was a bargain at the time, a good 4 years ago, and hasn't given me any trouble.
Corsair RM850i (Overclocked i7 and two overclocked 980Tis, lots of drives, so no, not overkill). My peak usage with both cards pushing at the same time is about 700w. My idle usage on Windows upon startup is about 220-240w. Connected to 1500VA CyberPower PSW PSU. Not only not planning on upgrading, but I fully expect this 3 year old unit to last at least another 10 years through different systems. I still have 10+ year old Seasonic S550 and Corsair VX550, for test builds and other stuff I do when bored.
I've got a high-efficiency Corsair 750W unit, don't think I'll need an upgrade.
11 year old Seasonic S12II-430 powering the system in the specs thingy on the left.
Regular dust removal and one (!) fan replacement is all it needed in over a decade. Still going to grab a M12II-520 Evo for my planned Ryzen upgrade later this year (mainly for cable management). Here's hoping it'll be equally reliable...
Still using an OCZ 600W that's about 6 years old. It seems to power my i7 8700 and 1080Ti quite happily.
EVGA G2 1000w, because it was the best balance of price vs specs vs performance at the time.
No idea if I really need that much, but then I also have no idea what other gubbins and RGB LED junk I may install in my rig in the future... and 1000w is about half what most of my friends have in theirs. I like to understate things, y'see!!
Corsair HX1000 from 2009. Still works perfectly fine, currently powering a Threadripper 1920X workstation with dual RX-Vega 64s. Been through about 3 upgrade cycles. 10 years from a PS and still going strong is absolutely awesome. It had a "80" efficiency rating back then, probably equivalent to bronze or a silver now. If I get another upgrade with it along for the ride it would be great.
EVGA 1200W P2
I had 2 x 7970
I have a 1080ti KiNGPiN now :)
Gigabeast 990FXA-UD7 AMD FX-8350 16gb Kingston Hyper X Beast 125TB - Corsair RM1000x
AsRock Z87 Extreme11/ac i7 4790k 32gb Avexir Core Red LED 127TB - Corsair AX1200i
ASUS X99 DELUXE i7 5930k 64gb G-Skill Ripjaws 2666 MHz 237TB - Corsair HX12001
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 AMD FX-8350 16gb Kingston Hyper X Beast (Selling) - Corsair AX1200x
Gigabyte 880FXA-UD7 AMD Phenom II 16gb Kingston Hyper X Beast (Selling) - Corsair RM1000x
Amateur Build Crazed Nutter - from experience despite the cables never reaching in big chassis
and no matter which way up the SATA Power are ALWAYS facing the opposite direction to required
but prices always took me towards the Corsair PSU's
(oh and YES thats IS 237TB on the ASUS crappy DELUXE above - onboard SATA ports NEVER worked
no help from ASUS so 2 x 16 port RAID Cards installed and I'll NEVER buy ASUS EVER AGAIN!!!)
The AsRock Z87 outperforms it in every respect with half the ram and with all types of work
I use a 1200W MK III Silencer PSU
Even though I don't need that much power, in the new PC I am building I am going to use an Enermax Platimax 1350W CrossFireX - got it at a closing down clearance sale brand new but over 50% off ($100) - so why not use it? :-)
Going to add a custom water cooling setup with lots of fans and a couple of radiators.
I intend to have my first go at a little overclocking of both the CPU and GPU to see how that works out.
Hoping all this will help so I can reduce the noise levels when normally using the PC as the case will sit right next to me on the desk.
Supernova Gold 550W and no, I don't envisage replacing it, single GPU and more efficient CPUs are coming.
Seagate 1300W Platinum and no I don't think I'll be upgrading anytime soon.
It is already overkill for my system (7600K, RTX 2080 etc) and . The only reason I have it is it was an RMA replacement for a lesser PSU and the amount I would have got for it 2nd hand was about the same as a decent lower wattage PSU was new, so I just kept it.
Corsair RM1000I powering a i7-5820K,SAPPHIRE NITRO R9 390X Tri-X and 5 HDD's. As I have no way of knowing how much each part uses,power wise,I like to play safe and go big.So far,so good.
Quite surprising how many people have ridiculously oversized PSUs in their rig. Some of the PSUs listed could easily power the builds they're in 2-3x in parallel at full bore with no issues and still have headroom.
Efficiency is clearly not something those folks with 800-1200+w PSUs in single CPU + single GPU systems care about... :p
Dunno, I have a 750W PSU but it's most effcient between roughly 20% and 70% load (maximum efficiency at 50%). If I had a smaller PSU that just covered the power requirement it wouldn't be as efficient.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bambooz
I'm still using my trusty old OCZ Z-Series 1000W that I purchased way back in 2010, however I intend to upgrade to something more efficient very soon.
Depends when and where you shop. At the time, mine was notably cheaper than PSUs half the size!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bambooz
Like I have to tell the wife - It's not like they're actually using 1200w all the time, ya know... just that they can if I connect enough stuff to them!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bambooz
Is it surprising though? Marketing does a decent job at selling unnecessarily high wattage power supplies (a bigger number must be better etc etc). I fully admit that my PSU is overkill for my current system but it wasn't for the system that came before it. I'm also safe in the knowledge that should I want to upgrade in the future (*cough* Cyberpunk 2077 */cough*) to extremely high end GPUs I wouldn't have to upgrade my PSU and still have plenty of headroom for overclocking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bambooz
Also it seems like actual power "efficiency" ;) is something you don't understand as most PSUs are most efficient around 50% load. Sure financially it doesn't make a lot of sense to spend a huge amount more just to make reasonably small savings on power but for me at least its less about money and more about noise, heat and the environment.
Literally the same reason as me for upgrading when the time comes. I am soon to post my final mods to my pc case for 2077 (Blew up the cold cathode inverter). We need a 2077 active thread when the time comes XD.Quote:
Originally Posted by Speed
Seasonic X900 900W. Much more than I need but it's been reliable and quiet.
An 800w EVGA holdover from when I had twin HD7970s (I could heat a small house with that setup). Completely overkill for my current microatx 1x1070 build... It's not modular which is my only complaint and the only reason I might upgrade unless it dies or some new spec requires me to.
I take it back. I've had a mad moment and splurged on a system upgrade so now have a AX 760 - and I'm afraid the competition won Carbide 300R is no more as well :(Quote:
Originally Posted by blokeinkent
700w modular,for an i5 and 1060 6gb, plenty for my needs.
It was a EVGA 750w but it failed. Still looking at what to get.
The one in the picture, Corsair AX1600i. I previously had the AX1200i but upgraded recently mainly to rule out power issues.
My rig consumes around 300w - 350w off the wall on idle. Peaks of over 1100w under load.
EVGA 1300G2 Present $149.00 at Microcenter /1000G2/850G2/850B2/ and Corsair TX 750/
Thermaltake 600/500.
520w (passive) Seasonic. Works fine for my i5, ssd and passive GTX1050ti... nice and quiet :)
550w. I have a 2080 Super and it seems to work fine. It's serves its purpose for several years but think I'll be upgrading to 750w when I upgrade my CPU later this year.
I have a 750W one. I believe it's a corsair CS750M. Had it for about 5 years but don't need to upgrade it any time soon (unless it dies) as graphics card power usage is getting lower.
Corsair 1200W and I have never even used it for SLI. I think I went a little OTT after my last PSU died and took out my mother board with it. Tough times.