Advice What's Next For Full Circle?

[Soul_Est]

I am looking to make my build, Full Circle, portable again (once I can travel again). I got back into PC gaming and plan to get back into 3D and CAD modeling as well.

After my HDPLEX 400W AC/DC died twice last year, I had my main machine powered by a SF750 and housed inside a Meslicious. Yes, I had contacted Larry about it the first time my HDPLEX 400W AC/DC died, then I got curious and impatient, and had a friend of a friend look at it where it died the second and final time. I am going to move the build back into my Skyreach 4 Mini. My only concern now is which way to go for the power supply. My current budget is low though I can buy piece by piece over time.

The easy solution would be to get two HDPLEX 250W GaN units to power the build in it's current state as the Ryzen 7 2700X and RX VEGA 56 Nano (especially) are quite power hungry.

The medium solution would be to get one HDPLEX 250W GaN unit and limit the power draw of the Ryzen 7 2700X and RX VEGA 56 Nano (especially).

The difficult solution would be to get one HDPLEX 250W GaN unit and upgrade to a Ryzen 7 5700X and RX 6600. By going with the difficult solution, I might as well change the motherboard (B550), memory (32GB DDR4-4000 CL18), and CPU cooler (Alpenfohn Black Ridge) at some point as well.

What do you think?

EDIT: Updated for readability.

 

[thelaughingman]

hmm so just to be clear, only the AC-DC brick died? your DC-ATX plugin is still okay? probably can sell that to offset the cost of the new PSU solution.

personally I would go for the 250w GaN AND limiting power draw of your CPU and GPU. if you're upgrading to the new platform then might as well get a new case that gives you more flexibility in terms of PSU solution, for example getting a 5-7L case that supports Flex PSU. one more left field solution is to hunt for 1 of those G-stick that was meant for the S4M, that would just be plug-n-play.

 

[k0n]

After I did everything to avoid the 40mm fans I bought my first Flex-ATX recently. The formfactor got just to tempting and I don't like that with my current custom cases (4.32L and 3.93L) I depend on the HDPLEX 250W GaN. 110€ for the FlexGURU PRO 500W... and it's like I always thought it would be to loud even at idle.

Maybe start with one GaN and see if your current hardware will be to limited for you @250W? I ran the R9 Nano and a R5 3600 for a while on the 200W HDPLEX kit without issues. 750Mhz that the Nano could maintain vs. up to 1000Mhz but fluctuating to 800Mhz and alot higher powerdraw (750Mhz was like half the stock amount,. 3600 with a PPT of 56W).

 

[Soul_Est]

hmm so just to be clear, only the AC-DC brick died? your DC-ATX plugin is still okay? probably can sell that to offset the cost of the new PSU solution.

personally I would go for the 250w GaN AND limiting power draw of your CPU and GPU. if you're upgrading to the new platform then might as well get a new case that gives you more flexibility in terms of PSU solution, for example getting a 5-7L case that supports Flex PSU. one more left field solution is to hunt for 1 of those G-stick that was meant for the S4M, that would just be plug-n-play.

That is correct. The 400W DC-ATX still works. I will see about selling that and other spare parts in the near future to offset costs. I will definitely get a 250W GaN and just limit the power draw for now.

After I did everything to avoid the 40mm fans I bought my first Flex-ATX recently. The formfactor got just to tempting and I don't like that with my current custom cases (4.32L and 3.93L) I depend on the HDPLEX 250W GaN. 110€ for the FlexGURU PRO 500W... and it's like I always thought it would be to loud even at idle.

Maybe start with one GaN and see if your current hardware will be to limited for you @250W? I ran the R9 Nano and a R5 3600 for a while on the 200W HDPLEX kit without issues. 750Mhz that the Nano could maintain vs. up to 1000Mhz but fluctuating to 800Mhz and alot higher powerdraw (750Mhz was like half the stock amount,. 3600 with a PPT of 56W).

I will go with a single 250W GaN. Your suggestions on the limits are a contributing factor in the decision. Thank you for those.

 

[k0n]

Yes, if it turns out 2700X and Vega56 deliver to little performance for you @ 200-250W you can then think about a second GaN or a hardware update.

 

[Soul_Est]

Thank you again @thelaughingman and @k0n . You got me to reconsider my plan and reframe my perspective. And it paid off.

At my workplace, the IT dept. had been purging old hardware and I asked about it. I was told to go ahead.

And WAH-BAM!

I got two HP HSTNN-DA12 230W AC Adapters. Absolute bricks. They do power the HDPLEX 400W AC-DC though and that is what matters.

 

[Soul_Est]

Soon tm