First time SFF, Long time IT nublet

Hi all.

This is my introductory post, so I guess I should do the typical overview history and location type job.

Where am I from? Australia
How long have I been building computers? Since I was a teenager some 30+ years ago.
SFF before? Nope. Never. Looking into my first small form factor right now, and am leaning heavily on the custom build route currently due to a distinct lack of cases that interest me.
Custom PC before? Yes. Many times. And many iterations. Have done both air and water cooling.
Work in IT? Yes. 20+ years there too.
Current Hardware? Ryzen 5600X, Powercolour LiquidDevil 5700XT, ASRock B550M-ITX/ac, 32Gb RAM, 3 SSD's, 1 NVME, 1 HDD, Super Flower 1000W PSU
Case? Fractal Designs Define S Watercooling with Window
Cooling? Alphacool UT60 360mm Radiator, Singularity Computers 200mm Reservoir, Phanteks Ryzen CPU Block, Hard tubing (switching to soft with SFF case), 5x Corsair SP120 (the old ones; these fans are probably >10 years old now).
Any Mods? I did have a custom wrap job on the case at one point, but I got bored with it and removed it. Have done mods to CPU and GPU blocks and Radiators in the past.
Discord? Yes. Actually, it's how I came to be here.

 

[Phuncz]

Welcome to the forum ! That 1000W PSU feels like massive overkill

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[Surfie]

Welcome to the forum ! That 1000W PSU feels like massive overkill

Prior to using it, I had a Corsair RM750 which was having power delivery issues for the CPU when I did an upgrade from an older Gen Intel chip (I honestly don't remember now what it even was, but I think it was a 9900K). After some testing, I was able to deduce that the issue was power delivery because the issue would only happen after a certain amount of time with either high CPU utilisation or high GPU utilisation. This led me (perhaps erroneously, but I have not got a PSU tester nor do I know anyone who does) that either the Wattage was too low, or that the PSU was dying. I went searching for a new PSU, and found the one I now have cheaper than any 800W unit (it was on special - surplus stock at the retailer perhaps) that I could find at the time. I tend to over-size my PSU's anyway just to ensure that I have overhead for sudden power demands, so this became a no-brainer at that point.

 

[Phuncz]

That explains a lot, thanks !