[SOLVED] Seasonic Focus Gold Plus 550W enough for i5 8400 + Strix Vega 56?

slideRzZjeH · Jun 17, 2018

RAM: 2x8GB Crucial 2133mhz
Mobo: Gigabyte B360-HD3
Storage: M2 SSD + 1TB 7200 RPM HDD
Watercooler: Deepcool Malestorm 120T

Thank you for the answers!

R0GG · Jun 17, 2018

Your estimated system peak power consumption with GPU/CPU loaded at 100% is around 450 watt, thus the recommended PSU wattage of 500 watt. Seasonic Focus Gold 550 watt with it's power rating and efficiency and it's excellent reviews will be sufficient for powering your system without any issues.

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geofelt · Jun 17, 2018

Seasonic focus is excellent quality and 550w will probably work.
But, I think the 650w version would be better:
http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page362.htm

And... I see no need for a liquid cooler with a non overclocked I5-8400.
Try the stock cooler first.

ElectrO_90 · Jun 17, 2018

Sadly M2's are over rated in PC's imho.
The reason I say this and yes I do have one, is that it sits under the GPU and therefore never gets cool air on it, only warm/hot air from the GPU radiating the heat.
This then slows the M2's down.

R0GG · Jun 17, 2018

I agree with you electro, the trade off for compactness and speed comes with the price of higher temps on the M.2 SSD (PCIe in my experience) itself and it's immediate surroundings with thermo-throttling as a result when temps reach certain threshold, not to mention the proximity M.2 SSDs from CPU socket or PCH or GPU especially in compact motherboards which demands improving M.2 cooling with dedicated heatsink and motherboard overall ventilation for quicker heat dissipation.

ElectrO_90 · Jun 17, 2018

R0GG :

I know off topic, but my ASrock, Z97 Extreme 6/3.1 - is a big mobo, but i wish the M2's were standing up and not across the board. I installed a heatsink but my Samsung Pro sits between 48'C and 54'C (using HDD Sentinel to log).

R0GG · Jun 17, 2018

The latest samsung NVMe SSD has better heat dissipation, I have 2 installed with cheap aluminum heatsinks on Asus Strix Z270E: a windows 10 pro 960 evo PCIe 3.0x4 at 35 idle and 45 peak temp, while the windows 7 WD black 1st generation idles at 45 and peaks at 55 when loading system of it. This with video card installed vertically away from the mobo with open case (TT core P3) and no mobo supportive ventilation (except for the CPU 360mm TT radiator/fans).
Tested also 2x Samsung PM961 (OEM 960 evo) and they run cool as well, don't know about the new WD black 2nd generation or the Samsung 970 which one appears to have better heat dissipation.

slideRzZjeH · Jun 17, 2018

geofelt :

The cooler is from my old AMD CPU, I just didn't throw it away. I know it's not necessary.

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