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Do I need to upgrade my PSU?

SkeletonWoods
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I have a pre-built computer that has an i5-7400, GTX 1060, 8 GB of RAM, but only a 300 watt power supply. I want to buy a 1tb SSD to put in my computer along with the hard drive that it came with and I am also thinking about getting 16 gigs of RAM but I don't know how much power an SSD and 8 more gigs of RAM would take. Do I need to buy a better power supply first or is 300 watts enough?

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SSDs and RAM use a tiny amount of power, probably at most 15W. Most of your power draw is from CPU and GPU.

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no you should be fine, besides any off the shelf psu wouldnt fit without a simple modifictions

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Alright 300 watts just doesn't seem like a lot so I thought that I might need an upgrade before that before anything else, thanks for the help.

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14 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

no you should be fine, besides any off the shelf psu wouldnt fit without a simple modifictions

depends on the brand of pre-built. Even brands with proprietary motherboards usually use standard ATX PSUs

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1 hour ago, Eastman51 said:

brand of pre-built

well prebuilt's are different then oem's like Dell or HP.

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