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Corsair HX650 or Seasonic SS-650AM?

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May 28, 2014 4:43:29 PM

HX650 (80+ GOLD) is $10 more than the Seasonic SS-650AM (80+ Bronze) .
Is it even worth more and why?

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a b ) Power supply
May 28, 2014 6:05:47 PM

From the review, the hx650 is manufactured by seasonic, because it is 80+ gold so it will be more expensive than the ss-650am (80+ bronze). And it is worth it.
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May 29, 2014 1:05:12 PM

cin19 said:
From the review, the hx650 is manufactured by seasonic, because it is 80+ gold so it will be more expensive than the ss-650am (80+ bronze). And it is worth it.


Sorry, actually it is HX650 — 80 PLUS® Bronze? (not the 80PLUS GOLD version)

http://www.corsair.com/en/professional-series-hx650-80-...

So is it worth?
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May 29, 2014 3:23:18 PM

The Corsair HX650 CMPSU-650HX is based on an older discontinued Seasonic group regulated design. It's not Intel Haswell Compatible.

What is the system configuration that this PSU is going to be powering?
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May 29, 2014 3:30:59 PM

ko888 said:
The Corsair HX650 CMPSU-650HX is based on an older discontinued Seasonic group regulated design. It's not Intel Haswell Compatible.

What is the system configuration that this PSU is going to be powering?


FX6300 with 212 evo
M5A97 EVO R2
R9 280x Dual-x
2x4GB Hyper X 1600C9
Elite 431 plus

Will surely overclock the cpu and gpu.
Is it enough? I tried calculating wattage online and it says like 630w , so psu will have to work under load and all.
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a b ) Power supply
May 29, 2014 4:01:39 PM

The Seasonic PSU is newer, so i'd chose that one. There are some other good 650W PSU's out there depending on budget, the Rosewill Capstone is very good for example.
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May 29, 2014 4:02:58 PM

I am not sure what method you use to calculate the power consumption, from what I did the system will only draw around 450W. So either one will be more than enough and because you don't use intel haswell so that there is not haswell compatible problem. Radeon R9-280X requires the PSU that has 30A on 12V rail and 550W.
And just get the ss-650AM.
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May 30, 2014 1:37:27 AM

cin19 said:
I am not sure what method you use to calculate the power consumption, from what I did the system will only draw around 450W. So either one will be more than enough and because you don't use intel haswell so that there is not haswell compatible problem. Radeon R9-280X requires the PSU that has 30A on 12V rail and 550W.
And just get the ss-650AM.


I somewhere did heared that it requires 42amps on 12v rail with minimum of 600w.
Anyways thanks, i will do more research now.
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a b ) Power supply
May 30, 2014 4:18:10 AM

Here is one of the review, the system ( i7 3960x @4.7ghz with same card) only draws 417W on load.
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/6210/sapphire-radeon-r...
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May 30, 2014 8:39:34 AM

cin19 said:
Here is one of the review, the system ( i7 3960x @4.7ghz with same card) only draws 417W on load.
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/6210/sapphire-radeon-r...


seen that, but many users using 550w psu did not be able to boot up, and succeeded after putting a 750w psu instead.
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May 30, 2014 10:31:36 AM

cin19 said:
Here is one of the review, the system ( i7 3960x @4.7ghz with same card) only draws 417W on load.
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/6210/sapphire-radeon-r...


That TweakTown review is for a Sapphire Radeon R9 280 Dual-X 3GB OC.

From Sapphire's web site:
SAPPHIRE DUAL-X R9 280 3GB GDDR5 OC WITH BOOST
GPU: 850(Boost:940) MHz Core Clock, 28 nm Chip, 1792 x Stream Processors
• 2X75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express power connector is required.
• 500 Watt Power Supply is required.
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1...
• This one is a re-branded Radeon HD 7950.
• Theoretical maximum power draw of the card, based on its PCI-E power connectors, is 225 Watts.

The OP has a Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Dual-X 3GB OC.

From Sapphire's web site:
SAPPHIRE DUAL-X R9 280X 3GB GDDR5 OC
GPU: 870/Boost:1020 MHz Core Clock, 28 nm Chip, 2048 x Stream Processors
• 1X75 Watt 6-pin and 1X150 Watt 8-pin PCI Express power connector is required.
• 750 Watt Power Supply is required.
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1...
• This one is a re-branded Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition.
• Theoretical maximum power draw of the card, based on its PCI-E power connectors, is 300 Watts.
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