[SOLVED] Seasonic Focus 850PX?

[fdanz20]

Hi guys, hope you are good.
I would like to know if this PSU is good? My actual setup is:

• i7 7700
• Asus H270 Prime Plus
• 2 x 8 Gb Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000 MHz
• 1 TB WD Blue
• 256 Gb SSD M.2 XPG SPECTRIX S40G
• RX 570 4Gb MSI Armor OC
• EVGA 450gd
• Corsair Carbide 400c

I want to upgade my setup this year. Im planing to get a RTX 3080 or at least a 3070, Ryzen 7 5800x or at least 5 5600x + Mother, a CPU Cooler, and some RGB leds for the case.
I know 850w is good enough or maybe 750w? for this upgrades, but I want to make the investment once and get room for future upgrades.
I'm from Argentina and the PSU market here is very limited, I can get this:

• Seasonic Focus+ (it has a + in the name in the box, the model is SSR 850PX Platinum ~ 260U$S
• Seasonic Focus Gold GX-850 ~ 233U$S
• ASUS Rog Strix 850G ~ 330U$S
• Asus Thor 850P ~ 373U$S

I can pay the difference between the gold and platinum for seasonic, but both Asus are just a lot, or are they better?
Im sorry if I have an error with my english.
Thank you very much!

 

[Phaaze88]

The Seasonic psus are great.
Those Asus psus, on the other hand, are highway robbery. They're no better than the Seasonics, because they're MADE BY SEASONIC; they're the OEM of both of those units.
Asus ordered them, added their own 'flavor' + the 'ROG loyalty tax' and sell them to you. There's nothing special about them that justifies the price.

 

[fdanz20]

The Seasonic psus are great.
Those Asus psus, on the other hand, are highway robbery. They're no better than the Seasonics, because they're MADE BY SEASONIC; they're the OEM of both of those units.
Asus ordered them, added their own 'flavor' + the 'ROG loyalty tax' and sell them to you. There's nothing special about them that justifies the price.

Thank you for the info! I didn't know about Asus.
It is worth to pay the difference between the Focus Platinum and the Focus Gold?
For my setup, plus the upgrades of RTX 3080, Ryzen 7 5800x, CPU Cooler and some rgb leds, is enough (and will have some room) with a 750w? I can get the Seasonic Gm-750 (but it's semi-modular) for 180 U$S.

 

[Phaaze88]

Thank you for the info! I didn't know about Asus.
It is worth to pay the difference between the Focus Platinum and the Focus Gold?
For my setup, plus the upgrades of RTX 3080, Ryzen 7 5800x, CPU Cooler and some rgb leds, is enough (and will have some room) with a 750w? I can get the Seasonic Gm-750 (but it's semi-modular) for 180 U$S.

1)Yeah, I've a bit of beef with Asus and their overpriced ROG stuff, but in all seriousness, their motherboards(all tiers) are great to work with. One of the most user-friendly bios out there.

2)Someone better versed in power supplies would have to answer this.
I am aware that these 30 series cards have high transient power spikes - no, it's not total power consumption - that can cause some power supplies to trip OCP(Over Current Protection) or cause other funky issues.
On paper, either unit should be fine... but as I said, I'm not well versed with psus like others on here. Hopefully, one of them chimes in.

3)You should have some room, considering Nvidia based the 750w requirement on a 10900K as the cpu.