Configurator power calc

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According to the configurator an RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 ti use the same power

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Swapping the PSU to 550W gives the hard error:

We notice that you have selected a 550W power supply, but based on our calculations we recommend you change your selection to a 650W power supply because your computer could require up to 565W of power including a 20% allowance.

Then switching to a 2080 ti says:

We notice that you have selected a 550W power supply, but based on our calculations we recommend you change your selection to a 650W power supply because your computer could require up to 565W of power including a 20% allowance.

For those thinking that might be normal, one would usually expect to see significantly different power consumption, e.g.

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