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5.0 out of 5 starsThe most Important Compotent
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2021
I've built several PCs in my time as a gamer, QA professionally for work and in general for family / friends. Take my review for what it is worth to you.
Why I bought this:
I purchased this psu because to me, the psu, is the most important competent to my builds. I've only ever totally lost a computer and all its components to a psu going bad (boom, lots of smoke and all parts were fried).
So that is why I go for gold edition from reputable brands (EVGA is a standard in my eyes). The build you're seeing is a micro-atx mobo (ASRock 450m Pro4 - Bios version 4.60) with a Ryzen 3700X cpu undervolted to 1.13751 volts and only a power draw of 7watts or so at idle and stock O.C. to 4.4GHz.
Will not be going higher as I prefer it to be running under design specifications.
CPU sits at:
Idle: 30 Celsius
Max Temp: 65 Celsius
GPU sits at:
Idle: 30 Celsius
Max Temp: 70 Celsius
Southbridge Temp: 30 Celsius
What I do with it:
I run QA tests on this machine in the gaming industry, multiple hours of in-game torture tests, if I'm not working on that, this machine it is running fold@home during these times of covid-19 and other sever illnesses. In other words, I built this machine to run it into the dirt for as long as possible. I believe such a psu will give me 5 to 7 years of running time without issue. Most of my builds that are retired are 9 years old or more - all of them have gold edition psu.
SPECS:
Memory:
GPU: ASUS TUF 1660 Super
CPU: Ryzen 7 3700x
CPU Cooler: Scythe Fuma 2 w/ provided thermal paste
Mobo: ASrock 450M Pro4
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 550
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 2x8GB BL2K8G32C16U4R
