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@Eximo Sound like my PSU is oversized enough not to worry? @Lutfij How bout you what's your two cents? Thx

@Eximo Yea my system only draws ~160 W or so at idle from the 850 W PSU. For the new one I'll try and remove a panel for airflow through the top if possible.

@Lutfij Upon inspection of the manual it definitely looks like there is a panel that can be removed. Were there no panel to removed would that mean zero-rpm fan mode PSUs should not be used?

@Lutfij Thx I'm not concerned about small amounts of money. Also this a great opportunity given the limited availability of 5070 ti's right now especially non-OC ones.

Thanks Lutfij, here they are. Upon quick inspection there's no ventilation above the PSU in my Silent Base 802 but there is a panel I might be able to remove. AMD 5900x w/NH-D15 IIRC Gigabyte Aorus X570 Ultra corsair I think 32 GB 16x2 Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB Soon to be Asus Prime 5070ti 16 GB...

Hi folks I'm about to pull the trigger on an Asus Prime 5070ti non-oc. Being a somewhat old fart I remember back in the days 5-10 years ago or so when Asus was the best of the best. I just wanted to make sure that this is mostly still true and my choice for an Asus GPU is not a bad one. I...

Hi I read on this page (see first and second paragraphs) that PSU zero RPM modes can be bad for PSU fans when you don't have air exhaust on top of the PSU since heat can accumulate in the PSU and turn on the fan quite frequently every time the heat inside the PSU builds up enough, thus putting...

@evermorex76 Excellent thanks returning to this thread after a brief hiatus. I just SHA-256'd two files from 2013 on my keychain flash drive and they are intact and happy. That Corsair drive almost certainly has gone more than a half year probably a year without power at certain times during its...

@USAFRet My use case is a stick I carry on me at all times for backing up super important work that gets powered on pretty regularly, and then boot drives for Mac OS versions, Win 10/11, and another boot drive with 20 or so different boot setups created with Yumi (I'd hate for that guy to crap...

Hi I did my homework investigating data retention length for flash drives. There seemed to be some disagreement about how to prolong data retention periods on these drives when not powered on frequently. Some people claimed the flash drive controller would refresh the data when plugged in for a...

Hey guys I have a wifi signal in a building I need to convert to ethernet to segregate a wifi network from its parent/source wifi network. The easiest way would be by hardwiring the existing router that manages the downstream network to a device that connects to the parent wifi network...

@sonofjesse I worry that the HX850 doesn't have the headroom for the spikes since Nvidia says the 5070ti requires at least 750 W. Also I'm kinda sold on Nvidia because of ray tracing and other new techs that the AMD's don't have... at least I know that was the situation a while back.

It's 4 years old this June. It powers a Ryzen 9 5900X with a GTX 970. I totally don't mind spending the $$$ for a new PSU.

@GarrettL Thanks will probably do.

Hi I am thinking of buying a 5070ti once the prices drop to ~MSRP. I currently have a Corsair HX850 Platinum PSU. I am wondering if I should invest in an ATX 3.0 PSU to accommodate power excursions. From what I read it looks like my old PSU is ATX v 2.4 and its 850W rating might not be able to...