AverageNinja
Average Penis Too
I have no experience with AOC monitors, so I can't help you there, but that PSU should be more than enough for this system. Great choice in hardware mate
To upgrade, or not to upgrade?
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I have no experience with AOC monitors, so I can't help you there, but that PSU should be more than enough for this system. Great choice in hardware mate
AlienALX
Well-known member
Power - for a 1080 yes. I would push it up 100w if you decide to go for a 1080Ti though, and especially a custom card you can push. They make my old 480 Lightning look like an onboard in terms of heat and power use. Ideally you want a 50% load. That is always the best way...
"Thankfully"? Ryzen taps out at 4ghz. So there really is no way to make it use stratospheric amounts of power really.
Ed. AOC make great monitors. I have had two, and they both got the seal of approval.
"Thankfully"? Ryzen taps out at 4ghz. So there really is no way to make it use stratospheric amounts of power really.
Ed. AOC make great monitors. I have had two, and they both got the seal of approval.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
750w is Overkill. You could use a 500w PSU with a 1080 and be fine. You have 250w of headroom. Don't sweat it!
AlienALX
Well-known member
I have not had any 1st hand experience with AOC monitors but they do get very good reviews. Maybe bear that in mind and see what the reviewers are saying about them overall
They're a million miles better than Acer. They also usually offer great features and spec for the price, don't look like a five year old's wet dream and don't cost the earth.
AlienALX
Well-known member
You have options, though. You can use Fastsync for uncapped FPS with sync or Adaptive Vsync that will basically disable Vsync in the 30s to stop it getting choppy and eliminate tearing.
Horses and courses man. Adaptive will work well with Fallout 4, for example, Fast will break it. For FPS like Doom and that? yeah, use Fast Sync. 1080 will haul ass at 1440p in Vulkan
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Agreed
AlienALX
Well-known member
Your link is not working for me. I saw Gskill 3200 and thought "yeah that will work" but it can depend. From what I can remember pretty much any ram will do 3000 now, but sometimes for 3200 and above you need ram from the board maker's QVL.
So it depends if the memory is Samsung B die.
AlienALX
Well-known member
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/62vp2g/clearing_up_any_samsung_bdie_confusion_eg_on/
After poking it seems that your memory is Hynix A die. Don't worry too much, it will definitely do 3000mhz.
Well yeah but as soon as you start overclocking everything, you can theoretically hit a wall on a 500W PSU.
750W with a single 1080/Stock CPU (plus all minisule components fans/SSD/drives/controllers, waterpumps etc) should be the minimum in my eyes.
when I say minimum I mean if you factor in the intention of overclocking. If you keep stuff at stock then a 750W will comfortably handle it all without having to work hard.
Thank Nvidia for that. I looked at the new Rog Poseidon. Considering they are asking for a cool £1000 for it which is on avg 10fps more than the founders, i start to wonder why we bother with AIB cards. Ideally, the only reason for me would be a better cooler, but if watercooling, then i'd go FE and block it all the way.
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Tolemac
Active member
I did consider putting a block on my 1080 Jetstream but tbh cost/performance wise it just wasn't worth voiding the warranty. I am getting temps of 59C max under load on a long gaming session so it just wasn't worth the extra money IMO.
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AlienALX
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Yeah, 1080 does not need water and the Founder's cooler was more than good enough. The Ti however needs it badly, or isn't worth buying IMO. What I mean is that to get the maximum performance out of the Ti it needs water, or you may as well just buy a 1080 and clock it hard.
Surfie
New member
So, if I'm planning on overclocking (which am), i should get a bigger psu?
Re 1080 water block: sure, it's not needed as such. But if i don't use it, I'll have 600mm of radiator just to cool a cpu, which is massively overkill. No reason not to add the gpu in imo.
Does raise an interesting point: should i consider the ti? I initially wrote it off due to cost ( i mean seriously i would be spending 50% again the cost of the entire rest off the system!) and for the resolution I'm planning on running the benefit seemed to be questionable in terms of value.
If i were to get a ti, would i need to up the psu to >1000W?
Surfie: I'm running a 1000W PSU (EVGA G3) with a pair of 1080TIs and an OCed Ryzen 1700, and a buttload of other stuff (19 fans, 4 HDDs, 2 SSDs, 2 D5 pumps, lights, sensors, and a partridge in a pear tree). It's fine. But if I get into benching and OCing, I can make that sucker pull almost 750W from the wall. For you, 1000W is MORE than enough I would think.
Surfie
New member
From the sounds of that the 750 wouldn't be though. So if i go the ti route, should i upgrade to something between the 750 & 1000, or just bite the bullet and get the larger psu?
Why wouldn't it? You only have a single GPU right? TBH, I always err on the side of more power, assuming it doesn't murder your wallet.
Also, if you have decent cooling, you really don't need to OC the 1080TI much. I only apply my OC profile when benchmarking (which isn't often, mostly I bench for stability testing). When gaming, I'm content to let my GPUs boost on their own. OCed, they run at 2075mhz core, but if I leave them on stock settings, they still boost up to 1975mhz. I don't find that extra 100mhz worth much, outside of higher bench scores and dumping more heat into the loop.
Grain of salt though, my cooling setup is mental (5 rads). Even when OCed to their max, my GPUs top out at 38C. With a decent custom loop, 750W should be more than enough, unless I'm misreading something about your setup.
