The Corsair AX760 is Platinum certified, and cheap is it still good?

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The Corsair AX760 is on The tier 1 psu list, but that list was 3+years old.

Looking at prices this is the exact same price as the rm750i.

It looks like the rm750i is newer, is newer better?

I looked at a few past threads but most replies were that they were both fine.

Is one better? Platinum is better than gold right?
 
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The Corsair Crystal cases, while nice aesthetically are obnoxiously noisy, and extremely hard to build in even for me, and I run a PC store! :(
The AX 760 is also overkill, way overkill.
If you want to go SLI in the future get the EVGA G3 850w for $109.
Did you need wireless?

Also I forgot to swap cases, my bad, here's a dead silent case with Silent Wings 3 fans (quietest on the market) and noise dampening foam.
You also didn't put a monitor in your list.
An AIO is unnecessary here, makes more noise than its worth.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($326.49 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-Z270X-UD3 ATX LGA1151...
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Sure thing, here's a top notch build for that, i've also included a 27" 4k IPS monitor.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($326.49 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-Z270X-UD3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($101.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team - Dark 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($114.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($127.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($66.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB SC2 Video Card ($719.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair - Carbide SPEC-04 (Black/Gray) ATX Mid Tower Case ($47.87 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair - TXM Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Monitor: LG - 27UD58-B 27.0" 3840x2160 60Hz Monitor ($339.99 @ Amazon)
Other: Cryorig H5 Universal ($46.99)
Total: $1948.07
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-25 23:31 EDT-0400
 
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The Corsair Crystal cases, while nice aesthetically are obnoxiously noisy, and extremely hard to build in even for me, and I run a PC store! :(
The AX 760 is also overkill, way overkill.
If you want to go SLI in the future get the EVGA G3 850w for $109.
Did you need wireless?

Also I forgot to swap cases, my bad, here's a dead silent case with Silent Wings 3 fans (quietest on the market) and noise dampening foam.
You also didn't put a monitor in your list.
An AIO is unnecessary here, makes more noise than its worth.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($326.49 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-Z270X-UD3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($101.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team - Dark 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($114.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($127.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($66.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB SC2 Video Card ($719.99 @ Newegg)
Case: be quiet! - Dark Base 900 (Black/Orange) ATX Full Tower Case ($169.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: Corsair - TXM Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Monitor: LG - 27UD58-B 27.0" 3840x2160 60Hz Monitor ($339.99 @ Amazon)
Other: Cryorig H5 Universal ($46.99)
Total: $2070.19
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-25 23:38 EDT-0400
 
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I'm confused, as I'm sure you can guess I'm not much of a PC builder but the one universal thing I have heard was invest in a GOOD psu. To me saving $70 out of $2,000 on a psu is something I was told NOT to do.

My last PC was a Dell XPS with a 5870 that I have been gaming on for 7+ years. I have had very little problems, but it is well past it's prime and ready to be put out to pasture.

I chose the Corsair case because if I am going go through the time and effort to build a ~$2000 ps I want to be able to look at something other than a non descript black/gray box.

I noticed that you chose a different motherboard, is there anything wrong with the one I was planning on going with? Or was is just because this one is $40 less?
 
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What they mean by that is don't cheap out, don't buy a crap unit pretty much.
However, you have to keep in mind not to go overkill, at a certain stage the upgrades become pointless.
The G3 is still an extremely high quality unit.
You can get a tempered glass panel with the Dark Base 900 through its 'Pro' version which also has a tempered glass panel and Qi wireless charging built into the top, thoughts?
I chose a different mobo because it's on sale and essentially has the same features/performance for $40 less, minus the wifi, which can be added via PCIE card for better performance anyway.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($326.49 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-Z270X-UD3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($101.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team - Dark 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($114.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($127.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($66.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB SC2 Video Card ($719.99 @ Newegg)
Case: be quiet! - Dark Base Pro 900 (Black/Silver) ATX Full Tower Case ($238.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Other: Cryorig H5 Universal ($46.99)
Total: $1854.20
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-26 00:27 EDT-0400
 
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It's just $40 less.

Why are you paying $2000 for a gaming PC? You can already buy a good 2K monitor along with a full rig for the same price. Also, I'd wait for Vega. Any GPU right now are either $50 to 2 times over original price or out of stock.

And also, it's not "get a decent PSU". It's get a PSU suited to your needs, which in any case excludes crappy power supplies.
For an office "work" station obviously you don't need an AX1600i. Nor should you get anything from Logisys. An EVGA 80+ 430W unit does the job.
For gaming, most likely you won't pull more than 500W even when overclocking. So why get 760W? It's not like you should sell your kidneys for an AX1600i, but it's not like you should be getting a StarTech power supply anyways. A SeaSonic SSR-550M is good and cheap and does exactly what you want.
 
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Okcnaline the reason is that I would like to have a 1080 ti and a 7700k i-7 processor. I have no idea where you got the idea that this is an office work system.

I have no interest in buying a 1060 or a 1070.

I already have duel 1080 monitor's and am looking at adding a third for a 3 screen setup. 3 1080p screens are a bit less than 4k and I'm seem more enjoyable.



I have absolutely no faith in amd, I have have 3 PC's that had either amd GPU's or cpu's and regretted not getting a nivida on every single one. I may wait for the Vega, but only in hopes that nivida drops the price a little.


To Chugalug I noticed you are suggesting an air powered CPU cooler but your build is a liquid cooled 280mm system and you are suggesting a single single air cooled 140mm fan. Is there a reason you are suggesting the air cooling, or is it just to cut the costs of the build.

Like I said, I'm interested in learning more.

And since you seem to know quite a bit about this stuff could you explain the PC parts picker note

"The motherboard M.2 slot #0 shares bandwidth with a SATA 6.0 Gb/s port. When the M.2 slot is populated, one SATA 6.0 Gb/s port is disabled."

Does that just mean that the m.2 drive is going to take up 1 of the 6 possible hard drive positions for my PC?

Thanks for the answer, I may move the rest of the discussion to the systems forum since the has gone quite a bit beyond the original psu question.
 
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I'm suggesting air cooling because it's way more cost effective, and the H5 performs very closely to most 240mm AIOs.
Also far quieter.
Also in regards to that last one, yes it does.
You'll never need more than 2-3 drives anyway, i'll be surprised if you fill up all the remaining 5 after the SSD.

Also @OP, i've put in a 1080 Ti, not a 1080, it's 35% more powerful.

 
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Thanks again I'll look over the stuff tweak it and check again in the full system forum.

It was always meant to be 1080ti it just autocorrected on my phone.

The 1080ti it to future proof my system since the 580 is still pretty viable 7 years later.
 
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My point is, you get the best PSU that fits what you're doing, not merely the best PSU. Seriously, don't get any 850W or even 760W power supply. It'll save you $30.
 
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@jampau

I ended up buying it. It is a very nice power supply from what I have seen. The cables are high quality and the fan is very quiet when it runs.

It is powering my 1080 to and i7 7700k nicely.
 
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