erakin99

The 1080 will be carried in luggage across 8000 miles; unfortunately, I can't afford to do the same with a PSU that'll weigh a brick.

Specs: MB: Gigabyte H110M S2 CPU: i5 6500 RAM: 8x2 HyperX Fury 2133Mhz DDR4 GPU: Zotac GeForce GTX 950 AMP! Edition PSU: Corsair CX430 SSD: 256GB Samsung 850 PRO HDDs: 1x4TB and 1x2TB (both 3.5in WD Blue), 1x512GB WD Blue 2.5in A few of the specs here may be irrelevant but where else can a proud parent be obnoxious about their baby even if it's ugly? Where I live, people have to pay through the nose and every other orifice for PC parts and I would give a lot (not money, though) for a Micro Center here but there isn't one, so every dollar I save will detract from the already sky-high cost of owning a decent rig. Not long ago, out of sheer necessity, I put together a build after plenty of research with my needs in mind, a couple wants and the best bang for my buck but now with the prospect of sourcing at cheap, directly from the States, the new GTX 1080, the possible one-stop-solution to all gaming concerns for the discernible future, I've begun to rethink my priorities and seriously wonder if I can shove one into the ecosystem I've already set up. I've calculated power draw by TDP, used a number of highly recommended power calculators out there which are supposed to "give you a good idea of what wattage PSU you'll need" and have read through a couple blogs/articles published after actual methodical testing which ultimately, like the results from the previous two, speak of a load power draw plus a buffer well within what this PSU is capable of, despite supporting a high-performance component(s). On the other hand, for some reason that I don't know and would very much like to, people by rule of thumb, think that you need between 500 and 600 watts to supply a powerful single-card gaming rig. So the question to which I (and maybe a few other poor souls) would like a well-justified, definitive answer to is, can my build (the PSU in particular) handle a GTX 1080?