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Solved PSU Advice

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Filip Ristovski

Filip Ristovski

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I was just wondering if you could help me out with picking my new psu.

www.thermaltake.com

Toughpower GF3 850W Gold - TT Premium Edition

Designed with a native PCIe 12+4pin connector, the Toughpower GF3 series is compatible with Intel ‘s ATX 3.0 specification and is built for next-gen PCIe 5.0 graphics cards. The wattage marked on 12VHPWR’s connector is the recommended wattage. (Ref. Intel design guideline) The native 16 PIN...
www.thermaltake.com www.thermaltake.com

This is the one I was thinking of buying.

As I could see in the psu tier list, in the Tier A there's a psu Thermaltake | Toughpower : GF3 <=1200W, so I guess that includes the psu I'm trying to buy?
 
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It would help @phillpower2 if he also knew your computer specs.
I suggest.

Can you Download and run and then post. https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy/download
To publish a Speccy profile to the Web:​

In Speccy, click File, and then click Publish Snapshot.​

In the Publish Snapshot dialog box, click Yes to enable Speccy to proceed.

Speccy publishes the profile and displays a second Publish Snapshot dialog box. You can open the URL in your default browser, copy it to the clipboard, or close the dialog box.

The last part of each URL is randomized, so only people you provide with the URL will be able to find your profile.

The information given in Speccy cannot be used by anyone to hack your system
 
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PeterOz said:
It would help @phillpower2 if he also knew your computer specs.
I suggest.

Can you Download and run and then post. https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy/download​

To publish a Speccy profile to the Web:​

In Speccy, click File, and then click Publish Snapshot.​

In the Publish Snapshot dialog box, click Yes to enable Speccy to proceed.

Speccy publishes the profile and displays a second Publish Snapshot dialog box. You can open the URL in your default browser, copy it to the clipboard, or close the dialog box.

The last part of each URL is randomized, so only people you provide with the URL will be able to find your profile.

The information given in Speccy cannot be used by anyone to hack your system
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These are my specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
GPU: RX 7800XT
RAM: 32GB DDR5 5600Mhz
Mobo: ASUS Prime A620M-K
OS: Win 11 Pro 64-bit
I can do the speccy thing once I'm back from work
 
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This is going over old ground as the OP was recommended this PSU in their previous thread here that had to be marked as they abandoned it :(

Filip Ristovski said:
As I could see in the psu tier list, in the Tier A there's a psu Thermaltake | Toughpower : GF3 <=1200W, so I guess that includes the psu I'm trying to buy?
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Doesn`t work like that I`m afraid, proof of this being the Toughpower GF3 1650W being rated at a lowly – Tier B • Mid-range

You can`t afford to have any grey area when it comes to the PSU so we need to know the actual brand of the GPU, if AMDs own fine but brands like ASUS, Gigabyte, Power Color and Sapphire etc may have a higher power requirement.

I use and suggest only four brands but for others that may read this thread, if a PSU from a lesser know brand is not on the Tier list don't purchase it.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
RAM: 32GB DDR5 5600Mhz
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If not already you will at some point have stability issues running the RAM at 5600 which is some 400MT/s faster than the CPU can handle long term, this likewise has been explained previously.
 
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phillpower2 said:
Doesn`t work like that I`m afraid, proof of this being the Toughpower GF3 1650W being rated at a lowly – Tier B • Mid-range

You can`t afford to have any grey area when it comes to the PSU so we need to know the actual brand of the GPU, if AMDs own fine but brands like ASUS, Gigabyte, Power Color and Sapphire etc may have a higher power requirement.

I use and suggest only four brands but for others that may read this thread, if a PSU is not on the Tier list don't purchase it.

Have you had this build up and running yet.
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The gpu's brand is Sapphire and yes I have this build running on a very bad cooler master psu which I'm looking to upgrade
 
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phillpower2 said:
This is going over old ground as the OP was recommended this PSU in their previous thread here that had to be marked as they abandoned it :(



Doesn`t work like that I`m afraid, proof of this being the Toughpower GF3 1650W being rated at a lowly – Tier B • Mid-range

You can`t afford to have any grey area when it comes to the PSU so we need to know the actual brand of the GPU, if AMDs own fine but brands like ASUS, Gigabyte, Power Color and Sapphire etc may have a higher power requirement.

I use and suggest only four brands but for others that may read this thread, if a PSU is not on the Tier list don't purchase it.



If not already you will at some point have stability issues running the RAM at 5600 which is some 400MT/s faster than the CPU can handle long term, this likewise has been explained previously.
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I was looking for a psu with a bit more wattage to future proof my pc bc I'm planning to upgrade the cpu in the future. Something in the region of 7800x3d. Would you mind recommending a bit more powerful psu, around 800-850w?
 
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I do not use or recommend Thermaltake but that is my preference and it doesn`t have to be yours.

The nearest that I can get to reference for the version of Themaltake PSU that you ask about is the 750W RGB version and that has been rated as Mid Range but without any evidence of any testing, not for me based on that alone.
 
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phillpower2 said:
I do not use or recommend Thermaltake but that is my preference and it doesn`t have to be yours.

The nearest that I can get to reference for the version of Themaltake PSU that you ask about is the 750W RGB version and that has been rated as Mid Range but without any evidence of any testing, not for me based on that alone.
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Thank you very much for the help, I'll take your advice and go for the bequiet one
 
#18
Google is hit and miss, check the results here and you will see what I mean.

Surprisingly the Pro version is only Gold efficiency rated and the Dark Power is Titanium, Id of thought it would be the other way around.

M just means modular btw.
 
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