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by mihular 471 days ago
850W is an overkill and will affect efficiency. I'd go with less power.
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If I go look up an arbitrary 850 watt supply (seasonic focus gold), it looks like it wastes about 10% plus 5 watts anywhere from 0-60% load. So extra capacity doesn't hurt that one.
Then you suddenly want a Nvidia GPU on the side and you need more power.
Is 850W really "overkill"? I don't know. I suppose it depends on how likely it is you will expand and add devices.