Die_Kapitan wroteThrax wroteIn other news I may very well be getting a SuperNOVA 850 G2 80+ GOLD from Greece soon. Pretty excited.
We have the Corsair CS series (pretty good quality for a tight budget) in leb at pcandparts but the price just isn't competitive enough (shipping+TVA.)
You can get an HX850i from PCandParts, it's one of the best PSUs on the market, has Corsair Link and is 80+ Platinum, if you're getting an 850W PSU I'm pretty sure you're going dual-cards, if that's the case you may be able to get by with a 750W PSU like the HX750i, Toughpower Gold 750W or even the CX750M. Assuming you're not overclocking neither you CPU or GPUs.
The full-modular 850W G2 costs €156 in Greece with free delivery so about $175 ($120 on amazon atm -- an unfortunate $55 difference). The HX850i costs $215 from pcandparts so $236.5 with VAT ($154 on amazon atm -- $82.5 difference). With a $5 delivery charge from ARAMEX and $3 to the delivery guy the actual price difference between getting a G2 or a HXi climbs to $70. The HXi would cost me 140% of the G2's price even with the relatively high prices in Greece. Not attractive at all. The price is just not competitive.
I wouldn't put the CX series near the reliability of the G2 or the HXi. The bronze certified, semi-modular CS850 fairs better in terms of price competitiveness and reliability but it would end up costing me approximately $150 if I bought it from pcandparts; I'd rather get a more reliably fully modular gold PSU for $25 more given the chance. $70 extra for a platinum rating and slightly more reliability with the HXi isn't worth it imho.
I did eye the Toughpower Gold 750W for a while but I may very well end up overclocking something. They're alright for the price.
I'm either going for a 390x cf setup or waiting for an entry level polaris card (or two heh). Good thing we still have safe sea/air access to the outside world eh.
pcandparts is definitely a nice place for anyone's computer shopping in leb. Some items are priced fairly or even very competitively (and I commend them for it) while others just aren't, and there's nothing I or my wallet's conscience can do about it.
DG wroteThank for the late replies but I already bought the Legrand UPS about 3 weeks ago. I still haven't used it yet.
I have also postponed upgrading my system (which is running fine on a PCE 850VA UPS) for now. Keep in mind I am only talking about the system. The monitor is on another 700VA UPS (and it will be the same setup once I upgrade my PC).
Thrax that's the website I used to calculate the needed power and it says that a (Skylake I5 3.2GHZ CPU + 2x8GB DDR4 RAM + GTX 970 + 1 SSD and 1 Sata HDD + some other stuff like an optical drive, a USB 3.0 device and 6x120cm fans) would not even need more than a 412W PSU and 700VA UPS for a 16 hours/day utilization.
Like I said, the monitor will be on a separate UPS and I will only have a single VGA card in the new system when I upgrade it.
Yaraytek you're all settled. Pretty sure you can squeeze in a kaby lake or a 6600K/or a 980 if it need be. Good choice for a single GPU system!