750 watts?

[sage pewter]

750 watts? You good bro?

[fringe kelp]

yep, works great

[sage pewter]

I’m sorry

I just made your build on pcp

The estimated wattage is 732 watts

You have a 750 watt psu

You have a 4090 and a 7950x

And 64 gb of ram

How can you not afford a psu

[fringe kelp]

not really an issue of affording one, just no better SFX units in terms of noise / reliability

[sage pewter]

Yes and when you have a power surge your computer will explode

Doesn’t that sound nice?

[fringe kelp]

cpu is set to 142w ppt, 4090 is power limited, uses less than 450w with both at 100%

[sage pewter]

Oh wait I forgot the fans

We’re at 742 watts now

At least you’re undervolting the cpu

[fringe kelp]

plenty of folks runing i9s and 4090s with the SF750 as well, they're known to be reliable even pulling 900w

[sage pewter]

I mean, hey, it looks nice, I hope it doesn’t blow up on you but if it does then that really sucks

[fringe kelp]

gold standard sff psu

[sage pewter]

I still skeptical of 750 watts for a 7950x and a 4090 fe tho lol

[fringe kelp]

thats fair, like i said tho both at 100% use less than 450w

gpu maxes out around 260w with the power limit i've set

[prime vigil]

It's a SF750, they're known to run quite a bit over spec @sage pewter

[sage pewter]

Oh I didn’t know that lol

Seems kind of silly to have a psu go over spec but whatever

[honest belfry]

its fine..

[sage pewter]

I’ve been told this already dude

You don’t need to add to it

[honest belfry]

ok DUDE

[sage pewter]

Bruh

Why be antagonistic

[willow osprey]

Haha this is the wrong neighborhood for this build. People here think you need 1000W for a 7600X and a 4060.

I don’t think I have ever heard of anyone struggling on an sf750.

[sage pewter]

For a 7600x and a 4060 you don’t even need a 650

[fringe kelp]

always fun to spook people who aren't familiar with sff stuff

[sage pewter]

Me lol

[fringe kelp]

it happens, in general sff stuff is just strange. not super familiar with full size stuff but i haven't heard of a 750w atx psu being able to handle 900w consistently

main concern of mine is noise so with power limiting / not using intel i wont get near that but its nice to have just in case

[prime vigil]

TLDR for a LONG time nobody offered >750W sfx PSUs

So a few companies got a bit .... Creative with how they made them

How much power a unit can handle is really just where the protection circuit is set to cut off, because no quality unit is actually running close to a dangerous limit

With ATX, 1200W units have been widely available for a long time so no reason to look for this

[fringe kelp]

^^^

toms hardware found the protection circuit to be 967w

[simple slate]

How did you get an FE 4090?

Also what do you use this rig for? Amazing build, ofc

[fringe kelp]

got it from microcenter last year, pc is used for video editing in adobe / ow2

adobe is primarily single threaded so gonna swap to a 7800x3d since i can use the extra fps more than the extra cores

[prime vigil]

Adobe isn't really single threaded anymore, even if it doesn't scale all the way to 32 threads all the time

[fringe kelp]

ah i see, dont really have issues in general use but always struggled with tracking in AE since its single threaded

[simple slate]

I see productivity people go with 7950x so it may make sense to stick with it.

Most games do benefit more from 7800x3d (which I have) but the difference isn't always massive

There is just one game I know of personally that runs better on the 7950x and that's cyberpunk. But that's just because of the design of their own engine. The vast majority of games don't benefit from extra cores like that