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Review on πŸ’‘ Power Up in Style with Corsair CX550F RGB Fully Modular 550W White Power Supply - 80 PLUS Bronze Certified! by Chad Baio

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Absolutely unreliable under normal load with 5700 XT

I bought this PSU to work with Ryzen 5 3600 and 5700 XT GPUs in a new build. With these options, the system could have handled a 550w or 650w PSU, but I chose this 750w PSU to have way more power than needed to avoid problems. However, the PC would freeze and restart whenever the GPU was stressed - a game, a test, or even opening a web browser. I spent endless hours looking for everything from bad memory to the GPU before finally narrowing the problem down to this PSU. I eventually replaced it with Seasonic and haven't had any issues since. I wish I'd spent the money on a Gold PSU right away instead of a Bronze PSU as it couldn't handle even half the rated load. that would save a lot of frustration.

Pros
  • handy thing
Cons
  • There are more interesting possibilities.