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Question what psu/ how many watts?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Power Supply: Corsair - RMx (2018) 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($69.97 @ Newegg)
Total: $69.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-04-01 18:05 EDT-0400

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $79.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-04-01 18:05 EDT-0400
 
If you are willing to do mail-in rebates, Newegg currently has this nice 750 watt Seasonic Focus Plus Gold for the same price after $25 rebate. It's a well-received power supply with a 10-year warranty...

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151187

Edit: Also, you might consider skipping out on the 1TB hard drive, and moving your SSD up to a 1TB model. Something like one of these, for example...

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9n...1tb-m2-2280-solid-state-drive-ssdpeknw010t8x1

Or, if you need more bulk storage, move your hard drive up to 2TB, since they don't cost that much more than the 1TB drives.
 
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Also, do you own the GTX 1080 already, or are you getting it for a much better price than what's shown on PCPartpicker? If not, you should probably go with one of Nvidia's newer 20-series RTX cards instead. Supplies of 10-series cards are dwindling, so the prices are rising, and it doesn't make much sense to pay nearly as much for a GTX 1080 as what an RTX 2080 costs.