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I'm planning on overclocking my GPU and I need help.

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If I had to warrant a guess your system currently draws about 300-350W under load. You could max out the power slider and be fine, but I'd check your power consumption just in case. My personal rule of thumb is to take the tdp and add 20% to it for the average user for a good slightly overestimated number for safety.

RX580: 185W -> 240W

R5 2600: 65W -> 80W

Plus your other components and peripherals ~ 100W

Still under your 550W limit, though efficiency of your system might suffer a little :P 

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Hi, I have a Ryzen 5 2600, RX 580 Saphire Nitro+ 8GB, 16gb ram (was 2666mhz I bumped it to 3200), I was just wondering if it would be a good idea to overclock my gpu, I only have a 550w 80+ bronze psu so I don't know how much room I have. I'm only looking at a small overclock, I was planning on using afterburner (if you have any suggestions please inform me). I have 4 120mm fans and a 240mm aio cooler, I feel this should be sufficient?

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you can overclock big if the PSU is any good, what model is that?

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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Sorry for the late response, my psu is a SilverStone ET-550-B 550W 80Plus Bronze Essential Power Supply

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If I had to warrant a guess your system currently draws about 300-350W under load. You could max out the power slider and be fine, but I'd check your power consumption just in case. My personal rule of thumb is to take the tdp and add 20% to it for the average user for a good slightly overestimated number for safety.

RX580: 185W -> 240W

R5 2600: 65W -> 80W

Plus your other components and peripherals ~ 100W

Still under your 550W limit, though efficiency of your system might suffer a little :P 

Daily Driver: Asus ROG Flow X13 - 5900HS/3050 Ti

Primary Desktop: NCase M1 - 5800X3D/RX 6950XT

Travel PC: Fractal Terra - 5800X/RTX 3060 Ti

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