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I am currently using a 3year old 500W psu, I believe it's Fractal Design Tesla.
I've read reviews about this PSU being rather mediocre with cheap capacitors.
My current rig is i7 4790K at stock speed, 16 gb, Gtx 1080 Strix Gaming and one hdd plus two sata SSDs.
In the future I am thinking about getting a new mobo, cpu, NVMe ssds and possibly the 1080Ti so naturally this low end PSU won't be enough.
I am actually surprised that I am doing fine with my current setup considering people have been saying that a 600W psu is required for the gtx 1080.

So my question is which is the best 600-650W psu out there?
I want a high quality and at least Gold-rated psu.
 
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best might be platinum rated but its not like you'll notice a difference. there is an evga P3 if interested.

Edit: There is a G3 but no P3, I got confused.
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A 600 watts isn't really required for a GTX 1080. All you need is a good 400-500 watts power supply.

Don't focus on ''gold'' 80+ ratings. It's an outdated way of marketing power supplies and is pretty irrelevant when it comes down to how well a power supply performs.

Anyways, here are really good 850 watts for the price;

Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $69.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-11-21 07:02 EST-0500
 
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Actually that's by far incorrect. The 80+ standard means that the PSU can deliver the advertised wattage. It's still widely used in the industry and it's more of a safety standard than a marketing one.
 
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As far as I know, 80+ ratings indicate how efficiently the power supply uses the power it gets from the wall. Not if it can deliver the advertised wattage lol.

feel free to link a source proving otherwise, though.

Btw, give this a read on how 80+ is a bit broken:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/80-plus-psu-efficiency,4848.html
 
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