Power Supply
If anyone could help answer my questions, it would be greatly appreciated,
1) How do you calculate the number of watts needed for your GPUs? In my case, I want to power two GPUs that require a total of 400 watts. So then do I buy a 500w power supply to cover my needs running at 80% efficiency.
what is that 2xGPU's you want to power and need 400watts all together
2) If I build my rig with modularity in mind, would it be safe to assume that I need to purchase another 500w power supply to support another two 3060ti GPUs. So on and so forth with every two GPUs '
you mean you have two rtx3060ti already and want to add 2 more rtx 3060ti ?
3) Should I only trust 80 Plus certified power supplies or can I cheap out for a Chinese model?
80plus certified power supply can be made in china also
even from brand names ...
If anyone could help answer my questions, it would be greatly appreciated,
1) How do you calculate the number of watts needed for your GPUs? In my case, I want to power two GPUs that require a total of 400 watts. So then do I buy a 500w power supply to cover my needs running at 80% efficiency.
what is that 2xGPU's you want to power and need 400watts all together
2) If I build my rig with modularity in mind, would it be safe to assume that I need to purchase another 500w power supply to support another two 3060ti GPUs. So on and so forth with every two GPUs '
you mean you have two rtx3060ti already and want to add 2 more rtx 3060ti ?
3) Should I only trust 80 Plus certified power supplies or can I cheap out for a Chinese model?
80plus certified power supply can be made in china also
even from brand names ... 2x3060ti gpu during mining , without proper fine tune , can consume a little bit over 200 watts each , with the right settings you can push down the power usage to around 100-125 watts/each card
So if you need a psu for 4x3060ti , and you are not familiar with the right power settings , i would suggest you to buy a 1000 watts psu for your 4x3060ti+motherboard+mem+hdd
as someone mentioned before , dont try to save money on PSU , the PSU is very very important in you case