Poor old power supplies. They just sit inside your gaming PC, often hidden away below a metal bracket, just quietly getting on with the job of providing electrical energy to every component and device in your rig. Where CPUs and GPUs grab all the headlines (heck, even RAM does these days, but for all the wrong reasons), PSUs are just there.
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As its name suggests, it's rated to 1000 W, and while that's far from being the most capable supply you can buy, it's more than enough for most gaming PCs. I use all kinds of different 1 kW PSUs, and they'll easily cope with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and RTX 5090 combination, for example.
In this instance, though, it's not just about the wattage or the price. This MSI MPG A1000GL at Newegg is the same price and power rating, but take a closer look at the sockets it has: two 12V-2x6 and three 8-pin PCIe.
That's no good for anyone with an AMD graphics card with two PCIe power connectors because most motherboards also require two such cables. Not to mention the two Nvidia meltygate specials are of no use outside of AI builds.
The ASRock, on the other hand, has five PCIe sockets and a dedicated 12V-2x6 socket, so it's good for any AMD, Intel, or Nvidia GPU gaming PC. It's also a fully modular unit, making cable management so much better, and it has a Platinum efficiency certificate from Cybenetics, plus a 10-year warranty.
What more do you need? Well, cheap RAM would be nice...
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1. Best CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
2. Best motherboard: MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk WiFi
3. Best RAM: G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 32 GB DDR5-7200
4. Best SSD: WD_Black SN7100
5. Best graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 9070
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