How to choose your PSU

 How to choose your PSU

The power supply unit or (PSU) this part of your pc , it looks unimportant part , but wihtout PSU the pc can't , this part is use to supplying power in your pc as it's name : "power supply unit " , we now will show the steps to choose the PSU .

1-Cables :

The cables are used for connect the PSU with other pc parts and send the power from the power supply to these parts like motherboard , CPU and other

24-pin cable : it use to connect the PSU with the motherboard and sends power from the PSU to the motherboard and m.2 SSDs , rams , CPU cooler and other parts that connected to the motherboard

4/8-pin cable :  it use to connect the PSU with the CPU and sends power from the PSU to the CPU

6/8-pin cable :  it use to connect the PSU with the GPU and sends more power from the PSU to the GPU because the power that send from the mother board to the GPU isn't enough

Sata cable :  it use to connect the PSU with the sata storage devices and sends power from the PSU to these devices


4-pin Molex cable :  it use to connect the PSU with the accessories like water pumpand sends power from the PSU to these devices

2-Wattage :

You must take how many wattage does your device need and what the recommended PSU for this wattage , by easy way you can use wattage calculator from EVGA power meter , be quiet PSU calculator and FSP power supply calculator to calculate the wattage and the recommended PSU

3-Protection :

This point is very important , that's not just for the PSU , but also to keep the other parts save you must buy a PSU with good capacitors and materials don't buy a unknown manufacture PSU , I recommend Cooler Master , Corsair , EVGA , FSP , Be quiet , MSI , Asus , thermal take , Antec , XPG , Deep cool , sea sonic , silver stone power supplies .

4-Consider Efficiency :

4- Dimensions :

The bottom line in this step , make sure that your PSU dimensions compatible to your case  


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