[SOLVED] Unsure if need a new PSU

[marcusy20]

Just need a little bit of advice. I have just built my new rig (MSI x570 a-pro, ryzen 3600, GTX 1070, OCZ 650W PSU) and have found that the mobo has and 8 pin CPU power 1 option and 4 pin CPU power 2 option. Unfortunately my PSU only has a 4 pin connecter that will connect to the CPU power 2 socket (the 8 pins are PCI express and the PSU is non-modular)- will this provide enough power to the CPU if I don't want to overclock or will I risk damaging any components so that a new PSU is recommended?

Any help would be much appreciated, I'm pretty new to all this!

 

[marcusy20]

I have been previously supplying my i5 3570k with the same connector from my PSU and I am not planning on overclocking

 

[Karadjgne]

3570k is 74w and is generally around that area since it doesn't use hyperthreading, but can be more with turbo enabled.

Ryzen 3600 is 65w and can stick to that limit depending on the motherboard. It will boost over that limit on Msi and Gigabyte mobo's as their 'stock' settings are not exactly AMD suggested settings.

But basically there's little difference between the 2.

That OCZ is pretty old, and isn't going to like the ultra low power states of sleep modes on any of the newer cpus, Intel or amd, so be ready to disable sleep states (c-states) in bios of C4 and below or at a minimum of C6/C7.

 

[marcusy20]

3570k is 74w and is generally around that area since it doesn't use hyperthreading, but can be more with turbo enabled.

Ryzen 3600 is 65w and can stick to that limit depending on the motherboard. It will boost over that limit on Msi and Gigabyte mobo's as their 'stock' settings are not exactly AMD suggested settings.

But basically there's little difference between the 2.

That OCZ is pretty old, and isn't going to like the ultra low power states of sleep modes on any of the newer cpus, Intel or amd, so be ready to disable sleep states (c-states) in bios of C4 and below or at a minimum of C6/C7.

Thank you! I think I will stick with the PSU for now but upgrade the PSU when one comes around that I like as it is quite old as you say.

 

[Karadjgne]

It works. Not going to hurt your wallet to wait, psu prices with covid shipping, supply and demand are crazy high right now, so having the ability to wait is a bonus.