All good, follow up with @phillpower2 he is very good with hardware issues, try and answer his questions best you can. 
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Solved Power usage is "Very High" & PC is very hot
- Thread starter Andytechhelp
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If it were my computer and it was brought to my attention that the PSU that I had was not of the quality required I would have asked straight away what PSU do I need, not just me saying that the PSU is not good but also the independent testers who only rated it as being good enough to support integrated graphics, in addition to this, you are not getting the benefit of the RAM that you have and for two reasons, overclocking the RAM to the ideal speed of 3200MHz will just add more stress to the PSU and if you had purchased the correct 3200MHz RAM you could have just enabled XMP and had the RAM be auto OCd, you can`t do the latter with the RAM that you have as the CPU will not be able to handle it and the system will fail.
I mean my bad I guess, first time posting here IDK the etiquette, or that I have to assume a question is being asked (or that I have to ask one). I didn't know if the PSU was for sure the issue, nor do I even still, so asking for a PSU recommendation to spend like $100-200 (or more) for potentially no reason wasn't my first thought. But I guess nothing else has worked so that probably is the issue, I don't see what else could be at this point. Not really great with computers so I'm not sure what the last part of your message even means TBH, but what PSU would you recommend to help fix this issue?
Before making any purchase it is always advisable to do one of two things, see if you are able to borrow an appropriate PSU to swap in for testing or get the PC tested by a local tech/tech store.
Using a weak PSU damages the hardware and the GPU being the most power hungry component tends to suffer first and the most, hence the reason why the above two are recommended to be done first, because it is only for testing a good quality 500W Bronze PSU from the likes of EVGA or Seasonic will do but not a Corsair who do recommend that their Bronze efficiency rated PSUs be used for entry level desktops that only have onboard video.
Until the testing has been done and the PSU upgraded the latter part of my reply #22 can wait as you cannot correct the issue until there is an appropriate PSU in place, this is impacting the CPU because Ryzen CPUs are notorious for not liking slow RAM which you are stuck with atm.
Can I ask that you do not quote every reply as we have to read the full post to make sure nothing gets missed,, thanks.
Using a weak PSU damages the hardware and the GPU being the most power hungry component tends to suffer first and the most, hence the reason why the above two are recommended to be done first, because it is only for testing a good quality 500W Bronze PSU from the likes of EVGA or Seasonic will do but not a Corsair who do recommend that their Bronze efficiency rated PSUs be used for entry level desktops that only have onboard video.
Until the testing has been done and the PSU upgraded the latter part of my reply #22 can wait as you cannot correct the issue until there is an appropriate PSU in place, this is impacting the CPU because Ryzen CPUs are notorious for not liking slow RAM which you are stuck with atm.
Can I ask that you do not quote every reply as we have to read the full post to make sure nothing gets missed,, thanks.
Being that the OP has revisited the forum but chose not to reply this thread will be marked and closed.
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