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Re: The PSU holy grail?
by
bathrobehero
on 19/09/2015, 14:07:40 UTC
And with more and more optimizations for different algos the power consumption will also increase so I personally like to use actual power consumption figures rather than what the advertised specs say.

Then, the EVGA wouldn't be enough either at 1300W. We'd have to go 5 GPUs, or 1500W PSUs, which are significantly less cost efficient.

I live in Central EU and there are 6 retailers selling the Evga PSU in my country and only one of them selling the Cooler Master V1200 so I have to assume there must be some webshops in France too selling the G2 for a reasonable price (260€).

The main online retailers (LDLC, materiel.net) simply don't list EVGA PSUs, at all.
After a bit of digging, I found a smaller one that's not too shady and sells it for 230€. Looks great!
It even lists a Super Flower Leadex 1600W - 80+ Gold at 290€...

Now, the specs say 2 cables are 2*8pin, and 4 cables are 1*8pin. So you would still need adapters...

Yeah, I forget about that. The G2 1300W have 6 x 8 pin and 2 x 6 pins so yeah that's a limiting factor but I have plenty of different PSU cables lying around mostly from the 750 Ti rigs, I could have 5 Gigabyte GTX 970's which each require one 8 + 6 pin.

But I wouldn't do that though, as I personally use 4 x 970 and 2 x 750 Ti's which comes down to a about 900-1080W at the wall depending on the algo which is a healthy 69-83% usage.
Beyond that I think it's risky to run it 0-24h and the efficiency also drops off.