Personally, I’d go with a quality 850w for a 3080 or higher card.
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yea i have decided to go for a 850. i looked at 900-950’s on newegg but there isn’t much selection until i go into the 1k and that is just overkill for my setup and way to expensive even for the buffer long term
Most brands don’t offer 900 or 950w units
Yea seems like very slim selection on certain watts kinda like ram
Personally have never seen anything been 850 and 1000. It seems that’s just the normal jump fire whatever reason.
Just get a quality 850w imo and it’s probably going to be more than you need
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I’m using Corsair AX850. Top shelf expensive great PSU. I’ve used Super Flower Leadex II Gold 850W and Seasonic X-760 as well.
Top quality PSUs does not come cheap.
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i ended up buying a corsair RM 850X. i mean it aint no titanium or platinum but hopefully it is alright. tryna get the pc running soon. spending a ton of money on shipping fee’s too which sucks if not for the shipping then yea easier for me to upgrade. i think overall on all my parts atm i spent easily $500 on shipping
Grats. Thats a good PSU too.
a few reasons for this;
1- the consumer typically just goes to 1kw if they feel 850w is not enough so little consumer demand but also
2- typically when you see a line it’s all on one platform like the corsair TX-M series. There are rare exceptions like the evga GQ series that uses one platform on lower end units and another for higher watt units. So in terms of cost of manufacturing you re-use many of the same parts & platform to make a 650w as you would a 850w; the overall cost is almost identical. At 850w the parts and platform tend to be pushed so that’s why the OEMs just create a new platform for 1k+ units (plus the overall performance by the marketplace is more demanding). So you can take the 850w and turn in into a 950w unit with some new parts but that will result in
3- you either downgrade the unit in terms of performance from its line siblings (either temp rating and/or efficiency) or you will have a 950w that cost the same as (or slightly more than) a 1k unit.
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it’s a very good CWT made unit that can easily last you through several builds
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Thanks. Yea imma try takr good care of this pc so i can just upgrade instead of buying new every thing. Possibly buy a laptop in thr future or build a smaller pc for backup
No matter what anyone tells you, go for trusted brands with a PSU. Established brands are less likely to use faulty parts that can catch fire. Performance is one thing, but I’d take a well put together unspectacular yet flame-proof PSU over a high performing brand I’ve never heard of.
You get what you pay for. That said, I buy off-brand components on the regular, just not the PSU.