what computer is certified to draw 600 watts of power?I havent been using desktops anymore and I only have modern laptops (few years olds)BUT, I do have my 12 year old desktop stuff, no reason to throw it away, and its not worth much if its sold.Out of curiosity I had put an electrical power measuring device in between wall outlet and the PSU.Here is what I found out: it takes 275 watts of power while gaming and 100 watts when no game runs or anykind of other software is drawing lots of power from GPU.I was unable to force it eat more power than 275 watts.Components:-14 year old intel motherboard, huge board, 8pin CPU power-14 year old Intel quad core CPU, the 2nd or 3rd best available for the socket back in the days-4x 8GB DDR3 sticks-I dont know how old this is: Nvidia Geforce 780 GTX-ONE SSD DRIVE (a bunch of HDDs would surely ramp up power usage but I dont have extra)Are these supposed to eat at least 450 watts of power? whats the catch
>>108791495PSUs always have a max wattage way higher than what the PC is going to use, also consider peak wattage spikes, not just what you see when gaming. Nowadays I think the most popular option is to get a PSU with a maximum wattage twice of what the PC should be while gaming, since PSUs are usually most efficient when drawing in half their maximum wattage
>Hey I'm a clueless boomer retard, let me make a thread about itModern high end GPUs are rated at close to 600W TDP by themselves. This information is not exactly hard to find, even for someone as sheltered as yourself.
>>108792277Dont you realize 10 year old GPUs were rated to take 400 wattsYet it takes 170 watts and not an inch more
>>108791495The number on the side of the power supply refers to the amount of power the psu can supply 24/7 for 2-15 years depending on the quality of the internal components
>>108792322>10 year old GPUs were rated to take 400 wattsCitation needed.>Yet it takes 170 watts and not an inch moreThat's already an average. Ratings tend to take spikes into consideration, not just average load consumption.
>>108791495>what computer is certified to draw 600 watts of power?Put in a high-end CPU and GPU and you can get close to that in a consumer build. I have a 7950X3D (which is quite power efficient) and a RTX 4090. The RTX 4090 alone eats ~450W at full load, I commonly see power draw over 550W while gaming which is basically 450W or nearly that on the GPU and ~100W the rest of the system. I think I've seen 600W as well, but it's not common with my build. With more of a power hog of a CPU I'd probably hit 600W more often.
>>108792322>10 year old GPUs were rated to take 400 wattsThey were not, you don't know what you're saying. At most they recommended a 400W PSU for the entire system, which would cover graphics card + CPU + mobo, RAM, peripherals all put together. That was not the GPU TDP.
>>108791495>whats the catch
>>108791495there's no catch, people just overspec psus by insane amounts due to all sorts of retarded "rules" that make 0 sense when shopping for reasonable quality units.99% of builds will put less than 50% load in a worst case scenario on a 550w psu>>108791513>also consider peak wattage spikesthis is an excellent example of such retardationa non-shit psu has the spikes already taken into cnsideration, the rating is for continuous power draw, not for spikes, and that continuous power draw rating is usually already 100-200 watts less than what the psu can deliver in an efficient and stable manner (again, as long as we're talking decent psus at least).an high end 550W psu should be able to sustain 700+w spikes without any issue.Also people look at what gpu manufacturers recommend without taking into consideration that gpu manufacturers have 0 idea if you're running diablotek garbage or something actually decent.
>>108791495Modern nvidia cards such as the RTX 3060 Ti can spike absurdly high, easily 600W.When I had a 660W PSU in my computer with a 3060Ti it occasionally tripped OCP and I had to massively underclock and undervolt the GPU to keep it from doing it. Granted the PSU was very old, so it wasn't capable of outputting full 660W anymore, but it was probably still capable of doing over 550W.These spikes are not gonna register on a power meter which averages power, you'd probably need an oscilloscope to observe them.
