Didn´t suggest a lowe wattage PSU, I stated it would be enough. Also said if his plans were to expand, the 650w was not a bad idea. Exactly what you said afterwards, and yet you contradicted me. I´m not the one trying to cause trouble here.
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Didn´t suggest a lowe wattage PSU, I stated it would be enough. Also said if his plans were to expand, the 650w was not a bad idea. Exactly what you said afterwards, and yet you contradicted me. I´m not the one trying to cause trouble here.
Intel_man
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You kinda did...
Also, 650W is not too much. It's actually a better buy for the system he's looking at buying (i7 6800k, X99, GTX 1080). His total power draw is around the 460W region. The EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550 isn't as efficient in that power region than the 650W. Meaning the 550 will draw more power from the wall to make the ~460W that is used by the system versus the 650W brother.
Wait why 460W?
GTX= 200W (Maximun based on torture tests in 4K resolution - http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-pascal,4572-10.html)
6800K= 100W (Turbo Base clock speed, torture test, it´s even less when gaming - http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i7-broadwell-e-6950x-6900k-6850k-6800k,4587-7.html)
Motherboard~60W (Just a high-end motherboard average)
Total=360W
Based on your graphs the EVGA would have around 473W, assuming he lives in USA or Europe.
I´d say he would be fine. Maybe I got something wrong.
Intel_man
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Because I took YOUR build, and swapped for the 6800k, asrock x99 as the op wants. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/mVWVGf
PCPartpicker gives very good peak power consumption values of the total build. It may be on the conservative side, but that's not a bad thing as efficiency only increase towards the right side of the curve.
If you consider his power consumption to be in the 350-450W region, then the 650W is still the better buy as that lies in the peak area of the curve. The 350-450W region of the 550W PSU is past it's peak.
PCPartpicker gives very good peak power consumption values of the total build. It may be on the conservative side, but that's not a bad thing as efficiency only increase towards the right side of the curve.
If you consider his power consumption to be in the 350-450W region, then the 650W is still the better buy as that lies in the peak area of the curve. The 350-450W region of the 550W PSU is past it's peak.
Dude gave a budget in Euros...
No need to be sarcastic.
You are actually right. Didn´t realize the power consumption was so high. A 550W PSU would have no margin. The 650W is the smart choice.
Edit: Where did you get that RAM?
Intel_man
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Just picked the cheapest 32gb of DDR4-3000 ram on the pcpartpickers list. I didn't put much effort into choosing it. I probably wouldn't pick that set in a X99 environment, but it's just for a power consumption value.
Oh I though you were using my part list. I used 16Gb 2133Mhz sticks. Do you recommend the OP to use 32?
Please just stop, it´s not funny. Don´t know what your problem is, but I don´t want to be involved, or if that´s just how you do things around here, in that case, I don´t want to be involved either.
Laquer Head
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It's pretty funny man.. there is an unwritten rule that you need at least 100 posts before @beers can offend you.
Intel_man
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I don't have a problem, but the following sequence has nothing to do with sarcasm:
Now please, get back on topic.
roany
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I think I got it. Thanks