Been keeping an eye on this PSU on both eBay and Amazon. This is the lowest price it has been in a while and a $10 saving is nothing to sneeze at.
Edit: Updated the coupon code to AFPAYDAY which makes this an even better deal.
3070 and equiv or below. Some more mid range systems will be fine. Most are 250w gpu or below and cpus just keep under 100w and you're fine. (don't let mce go crazy on Intel for example)
I ran a ryzen 5 6 core + 3060 Ti on a corsair sfx 450 fine for a while. Eventually jumped to the 750 sfx unit that went on sale.
Making noise is okay?
Some people prefer quiet pcs.
Let me clarify. Making someeee noise is okay.
My PC is actually very quiet!
I had the EVGA 750W G2 80+ Gold for 6 years. It has a 10 year warranty. Popped and smoked one day. Sent it in for warranty, "No Fault Found". No reason for me personally to try them again.
So it still worked after the pop and smoke? Must be incredibly well built! /s
I have the exact same PSU and mine started shutting down under load. However my experience with warranty was the opposite. I sent it across and got a replacement ezpz.
Seems to have gone up in price. Got a 750 for $109 and $850 for $129. 850 might have also been $109
This was when retailers were forced to purchased bundles to get GPU's
750 is with a TUF 3080 and a 10400f. 850 is with dual 2080Ti with Nvlink
Currently using the 750w variant in my main machine (5900x + 3080) and have had no issues.
These are rated as better units if you can spare the extra $10 https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/715110
Thing is it's an extra $25+ for shipping, so it makes it $30-$40 extra.
However; I agree it's a bit better unit.
Shows free shipping for me.
My bad, I had someone come to me needing a new PSU and they said it was $140 shipped - since they got express post..
Ahh well, it's a very good deal and yeah I'd suggest that over this.
Had one of these, it stopped working. Bits of something internal was heard rattling around inside. Got refund from umart and bought a 1200w in prep for the 4000 series
Note that on PSU tier list this is B and flagged as [1] Units experiencing tripping issues with high transient power draw GPUs like AMD Vega, 6900 XT and nVidia RTX3080 / 3080 Ti / 3090. My GA 750 runs fine, but buyer beware and DYOR to see if it'll be okay for you.
Don't think too many people would recommend trying to run things above 3070/6700XT on 650W… But appreciate the knowledge
2nd post, someone is recommending it.
For all those that are questioning if a 650W PSU is "Enough".
It's going to be fine for most reasonable stock systems (E.G anything that's a 3080 and below) and not anything over the top for CPU either. E.G not a 12900k.
If you're buying a 12900k, 3080ti and/or overclocking in any form, you should be buying a better power supply anyway..
EDIT: Have the 850w Platinum in my system with a 8700k @ 5.2GHz (1.42v), a 1080ti (stock), 2x 970 Evo Plus, 1x 850 Evo and a 2TB HDD. I once upon a time ran into lack of power issues with an old 750w and two HD 7950's whilst overclocked. People seem to think that you need lots of power for any system and that a 650w is a "waste" or "Pointless"..
Use "AFPAYDAY" to bring the price down to $92.65.
I know with a recent purchase, I 'upgraded' from a 750w for a 850w PSU with a AMD Ryzen 7 and 3080 … and found under load it would still make noise due to the max draw. Upgraded to a further 1000w and no longer those issues. Not sure what a 650w PSU would be acceptable for these days.