Hi
Just a general question, I recently bought a RMx 1000W PSU. Just to see how much my PC is drawing, I attached a power meter to the system only, not the screen, speakers etc, and noticed that its drawing 1034W on average with a peak of 1079W while playing intensive games. It's not a spike and continues hovering around 1030 - 1050W while gaming. I've done some reading into it that this is mainly due to power conversion/efficiency of the PSU, but I've never seen a PSU actually hit or get close to its rated limits. Will it be safe to continue using in this way or would it be better to think about a 1200W etc. PSU.
PC Specs:
GPU: AMD 6900XT OC with 3 PCIE power plugs (2x 8-pin, 1x 6-pin) usually runs peak 389W and average 351W according to monitoring tools while gaming. Power limits increased through MPT to 339W and boosted by 15% in Wattman/Radeon Software for OC purposes.
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 OC to 4.3ghz @ 1.3v
Motherboard: NZXT B550 N7
RAM: 2x Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB, 3200mhz
2x SSD NVMe
1x SSD SATA3
6x 120mm fans and 1x 140mm fan
AIO 240mm cooler
Just a general question, I recently bought a RMx 1000W PSU. Just to see how much my PC is drawing, I attached a power meter to the system only, not the screen, speakers etc, and noticed that its drawing 1034W on average with a peak of 1079W while playing intensive games. It's not a spike and continues hovering around 1030 - 1050W while gaming. I've done some reading into it that this is mainly due to power conversion/efficiency of the PSU, but I've never seen a PSU actually hit or get close to its rated limits. Will it be safe to continue using in this way or would it be better to think about a 1200W etc. PSU.
PC Specs:
GPU: AMD 6900XT OC with 3 PCIE power plugs (2x 8-pin, 1x 6-pin) usually runs peak 389W and average 351W according to monitoring tools while gaming. Power limits increased through MPT to 339W and boosted by 15% in Wattman/Radeon Software for OC purposes.
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 OC to 4.3ghz @ 1.3v
Motherboard: NZXT B550 N7
RAM: 2x Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB, 3200mhz
2x SSD NVMe
1x SSD SATA3
6x 120mm fans and 1x 140mm fan
AIO 240mm cooler