worried about my psu

[spiroulis]

Hello, i just got the "Sapphire rx580 pulse" gpu and im in agony whether my psu can take it. I have a  corsair cx450m psu, ryzen 2200g cpu, and 1 8gb ddr4 ram module. All of the online psu calculators i tried say that my max load is 400w but im scared that my 450w will fail. 

[UpTheDons]

it should be more than enough.

[GoldenLag]

2 minutes ago, spiroulis said:

All of the online psu calculators i tried say that my max load is 400w but im scared that my 450w will fail. 

PSU calculators are innaccurate and you should avoid them. They overestimate a lot.

 

You will be more than fine. You can run that system on a decent 400w unit. The cx450m greylabel is a decent unit

[Mateyyy]

It should work fine.

 

Kind of unrelated, but do consider throwing another 8GB stick of memory in there, to run them in dual-channel. You're losing out on quite a hefty bit of performance this way.

[spiroulis]

2 minutes ago, Ed-petit said:

it should be more than enough.

 

1 minute ago, GoldenLag said:

PSU calculators are innaccurate and you should avoid them. They overestimate a lot.

 

You will be more than fine. You can run that system on a decent 400w unit. The cx450m greylabel is a decent unit

Im relieved, thanks for offering some peace of mind.

[spiroulis]

Just now, Mateyyy said:

It should work fine.

 

Kind of unrelated, but do consider throwing another 8GB stick of memory in there, to run them in dual-channel. You're losing out on quite a hefty bit of performance this way.

i will once i have a bit of extra money, thanks for the heads up

[KGGaming]

@spiroulis op your worried hell im running a ryzen 5 3600 and a 1660S on that psu and it barely consumes 400W of power

[GoldenLag]

1 minute ago, KGGaming said:

@spiroulis op your worried hell im running a ryzen 5 3600 and a 1660S on that psu and it barely consumes 400W of power

Thats not gonna do more than like 200w. Perhaps around 220-240 full load.

 

If i remember correctly and my math checks out. This is after PSU losses mind you. As in what the PSU outputs. 

[KGGaming]

Just now, GoldenLag said:

Thats not gonna do more than like 200w. Perhaps around 220-240 full load.

 

If i remember correctly and my math checks out. This is after PSU losses mind you. As in what the PSU outputs. 

Dude, come on i was just trying to make it so that op stopped worried about now worrying about power

[spiroulis]

@KGGaming @GoldenLag Should i be worried of my gpu reaching 90-100% utilization or am i still good?

[KGGaming]

2 minutes ago, spiroulis said:

@KGGaming @GoldenLag Should i be worried of my gpu reaching 90-100% utilization or am i still good?

nah don't worry, if that your idle amount then maybe be worried but if your playing a game i won't be worried

[GoldenLag]

18 minutes ago, spiroulis said:

@KGGaming @GoldenLag Should i be worried of my gpu reaching 90-100% utilization or am i still good?

Nothing to worry about.its expected behavior

[Held_Games]

You might want to say away from overclocking though. (CPU and GPU) Due to the increase in power consumption, but else you are fine.