Good fully modular PSU?

[Exodus]

They are factory sleeved. Why would you want to change it?


LGA 1150 doesn't support quad-channel. LGA 2011 does (LGA 1366 is tri-channel). 16 GiB of RAM really isn't much these days. Removing 4 GiB sticks to install 8 GiB sticks is wasteful, in my opinion.

I thought it was possible. How come I see at lot of people with 4 stick of ram in one single lga 1150 motherboard? In this link for example.

http://pcpartpicker.com/search/?cc=us&q=550w

I want to get colored sleeved cables like the bitfenix alchemy. It make cables management way easier when the PSU is fully modular but I think I'm going to give up on that and get a simple modular one.

Any of the ones listed here are good:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Produc...IsNodeId=1&PriceMin=75&PriceMax=120&name=660W
*note- FULL modular puts a steep premium on a psu and limits your choices

***EDIT- the Seasonic M12 II in the above link says full modular but it may not be... still a very decent unit though

Thanks a lot for your help.
If I give up on fully modular which PSU would be the best one?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I thought it was possible. How come I see at lot of people with 4 stick of ram in one single lga 1150 motherboard? In this link for example.

LGA 1150 has two memory channels (channel 0 and channel 1) and each channel has two DIMM slots. The maximum it can do is 2 x dual channel.

The only reason why people should have all four DIMMs populated is if they need that much memory.

 

[Norton]

This one is excellent (partial modular/seasonic internals):

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371059
Ran one in one of my rigs 24/7 for over a year with no issues and it's sitting in a buddy's rig now doing the same.

However, good units are always going on sale so watch for deals

 

[MetalRacer]

Good one here.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ..._-cables-_-na-_-na&Item=N82E16817151120&cm_sp=

 

[Exodus]

Thanks for all your help guys.

This one is excellent (partial modular/seasonic internals):

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371059
Ran one in one of my rigs 24/7 for over a year with no issues and it's sitting in a buddy's rig now doing the same.

However, good units are always going on sale so watch for deals

Okay thanks thanks a lot man.

I just saw the XFX XTR on NCIX. It looks pretty good. Gold rated and fully modular. What do you think of this PSU?

http://www.ncix.com/detail/xfx-xtr-series-550w-80-ba-92830.htm

LGA 1150 has two memory channels (channel 0 and channel 1) and each channel has two DIMM slots. The maximum it can do is 2 x dual channel.

The only reason why people should have all four DIMMs populated is if they need that much memory.

I don't understand. Is it possible to make four sticks of RAM work in a single motherboard?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I don't understand. Is it possible to make four sticks of RAM work in a single motherboard?

Yes so long as there are four DIMMs.

 

[Exodus]

Yes so long as there are four DIMMs.

So it is possible to do so on a Z97 board but it won't work in quad channel. It will be 2x dual channel. Am I right?

If yes than can I do this in the case that 8GB won't be enough in the future? Is there any downside?

 

[Norton]

Thanks for all your help guys.



Okay thanks thanks a lot man.

I just saw the XFX XTR on NCIX. It looks pretty good. Gold rated and fully modular. What do you think of this PSU?

http://www.ncix.com/detail/xfx-xtr-series-550w-80-ba-92830.htm

Seasonic OEM unit/good reviews on the XTR series- go for it!

Here's a review of that model:

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/6022/xfx-xtr-550-watt-80-plus-gold-power-supply-review/index5.html

 

[FordGT90Concept]

So it is possible to do so on a Z97 board but it won't work in quad channel. It will be 2x dual channel. Am I right?

If yes than can I do this in the case that 8GB won't be enough in the future? Is there any downside?

Yes. 8 GiB is minimum right now. Star Citizen minimum is 16 GiB. The memory requirements are only going to go higher. The downside of 1 x 8 GiB is it won't run dual channel until you add another stick. Leaving the door open to 32 GiB is a better long term strategy than limiting yourself to 16 GiB.

 

[Exodus]

Seasonic OEM unit/good reviews on the XTR series- go for it!

Here's a review of that model:

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/6022/xfx-xtr-550-watt-80-plus-gold-power-supply-review/index5.html

Thanks. So I'll get that one case I want to make an mATX build and I'll get the Evga G2 750w in the case I wan't to make crossfire.

Yes. 8 GiB is minimum right now. Star Citizen minimum is 16 GiB. The memory requirements are only going to go higher. The downside of 1 x 8 GiB is it won't run dual channel until you add another stick. Leaving the door open to 32 GiB is a better long term strategy than limiting yourself to 16 GiB.

My 4gb lasted me 5 years on my old computer. Don't you think the day games will require more than 16 GB I'll have to change my CPU and my motherboard?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

No, because they're coming right now (e.g. Thief and Wolfenstein: The New Order). The reason why 4 GiB was fine for the past decade was because consoles, up until now, only had 512 MiB of memory. The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have 8 GiB of memory and they don't have the memory hog that is Windows running in the background either. I expect games that will use more than 16 GiB to show up in the next 1-3 years. What will drive that growth will be console ports that target 4K resolutions on PC which translates to really high resolution textures that require a lot of memory.

Now that game development has begun to cross the 32-bit barrier en masse, the sky is literally the limit again with memory.

 

[Exodus]

No, because they're coming right now (e.g. Thief and Wolfenstein: The New Order). The reason why 4 GiB was fine for the past decade was because consoles, up until now, only had 512 MiB of memory. The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have 8 GiB of memory and they don't have the memory hog that is Windows running in the background either. I expect games that will use more than 16 GiB to show up in the next 1-3 years. What will drive that growth will be console ports that target 4K resolutions on PC which translates to really high resolution textures that require a lot of memory.

Now that game development has begun to cross the 32-bit barrier en masse, the sky is literally the limit again with memory.

I haven't thought about that. Thanks for the warning but I'm still not sure. I think I'll make another thread and see what people think of this.