PSU for Current system

[ZixteE]

Here's my system

MOBO - H61M-c

CPU - i3 3240

RAM - 2x hyper x fury ddr3 1866mhz 4gb

STORAGE - 1tb WD blue, 500gb WD blue

and im planning to upgrade my GPU from Palit GT630 DDR5 1GB to Palit 1060 4gb , and im thinking to buy news PSU "Cougar SL 500w 80%" my question is that PSU is good for my system? lets say i have already the PALIT 1060.

[domandric034]

Get EVGA Supernova G3 550W

[Gameborn]

At first, I don't recommend installing 1060 with ivy bridge i3, it is going to be huge bottleneck. And good 500w psu will be more than enough for this. But still, I won't recommend installing 1060 with any i3, especially that old.

[ZixteE]

10 minutes ago, Gameborn said:

At first, I don't recommend installing 1060 with ivy bridge i3, it is going to be huge bottleneck. And good 500w psu will be more than enough for this. But still, I won't recommend installing 1060 with any i3, especially that old.

i posted on GPU section about i3 3240 and 1060 they said its okay yea it will bottleneck but not that huge

[Gameborn]

Just now, ZixteE said:

i posted on GPU section about i3 3240 and 1060 they said its okay yea it will bottleneck but not that huge

it also hugely depends on the game and resolution/graphic settings you're going to play at. But at 1080p you'll still get some bottleneck in cpu demanding games like battlefield 1 or watch dogs 2 (which will likely drop to very low framerates)

[ARikozuM]

Looks good. 

The board takes OC RAM and the PSU is great with a good amount of wattage. 

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, Gameborn said:

it also hugely depends on the game and resolution/graphic settings you're going to play at. But at 1080p you'll still get some bottleneck in cpu demanding games like battlefield 1 or watch dogs 2 (which will likely drop to very low framerates)

Two out of... thousands of games... 

 

It'll depend on the program, but if you'd like we could have OP play Gorky 17 so that no bottlenecks will occur. 

Spoiler

Gorky 17 is an old game from the Windows 98 days that would run on an Easy Bake Oven. 

 

[ZixteE]

20 minutes ago, Gameborn said:

it also hugely depends on the game and resolution/graphic settings you're going to play at. But at 1080p you'll still get some bottleneck in cpu demanding games like battlefield 1 or watch dogs 2 (which will likely drop to very low framerates)

1080 reso and maybe like BF1 WD2 GTAV etc. 2016 to 2017 games 

[Gameborn]

Just now, ZixteE said:

1080 reso and maybe like BF1 WD2 GTAV etc. 2016 to 2017 games 

gta 5 isn't that technically advanced, but I don't think you're going to be able to play bf1 on this comfortably, in multiplayer you'll get drops to 40 fps and maybe even lower

[ZixteE]

2 minutes ago, Gameborn said:

gta 5 isn't that technically advanced, but I don't think you're going to be able to play bf1 on this comfortably, in multiplayer you'll get drops to 40 fps and maybe even lower

dropping fps because of cpu?

[Gameborn]

Just now, ZixteE said:

dropping fps because of cpu?

yes, cpu gives data to gpu to render, and also is responsible for geometry, physics and scripts. And it have only two physical cores so it's not very powerful. In that kind of games even quad-core amd fx can be faster

[STRMfrmXMN]

You mentioned GTA V and a Core i3. As someone who owned an i3 4360 and played GTA V for awhile, I would personally not recommend it, but you can get by, I suppose.

 

8 hours ago, ZixteE said:

Here's my system

MOBO - H61M-c

CPU - i3 3240

RAM - 2x hyper x fury ddr3 1866mhz 4gb

STORAGE - 1tb WD blue, 500gb WD blue

and im planning to upgrade my GPU from Palit GT630 DDR5 1GB to Palit 1060 4gb , and im thinking to buy news PSU "Cougar SL 500w 80%" my question is that PSU is good for my system? lets say i have already the PALIT 1060.

The PSU barely has 80 PLUS efficiency so I'll pass on assuming that it's a decent quality unit. Can you find a Corsair CX450M or Seasonic S12 430W?