How far can Pure Power 10 400w carry?

[spirals]

So I currently have an Rx 570, pairing w/ the R3 2200g Overclocked to 4Ghz and so far it's been doing very well honestly, but it's 2019 after all and for me it's a great time to upgrade my GPU, just wanna know how far can this thing hold? Y'know? For future upgrades

[GoldenLag]

id say up to a 2080 in powerconsumption. 

[spirals]

4 hours ago, GoldenLag said:

id say up to a 2080 in powerconsumption. 

Wait what? are you sure a 400watt PSU can run a GPU with the minimum requirement of 600-700watts??

[TechyBen]

12 minutes ago, spirals said:

Wait what? are you sure a 400watt PSU can run a GPU with the minimum requirement of 600-700watts??

Depends "min required" is not "power draw". The cards themselves draw less than that, and the 600-700 watt recommendation is on total system draw. But if not following through on specs/maths and proper testing, go for the higher PSU.

 

Currently I'm planning on running a system on a 180w PSU as I might get it to draw 150w max... but will test, and if it does draw more, could possibly up to a 200w Xbox360 PSU, as I'm going laptop power supply only. XD

 

So for a 2080, you probably will need more, as it draws 225w + and peaks over 300w! https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-founders-edition,5809-10.html

[Spotty]

3 minutes ago, spirals said:

Wait what? are you sure a 400watt PSU can run a GPU with the minimum requirement of 600-700watts??

With your system it should be fine as long as you're not overclocking. If it was with a more power intensive CPU like an i7 then that would be more of an issue. An RTX2080 itself is usually between 200-250W power consumption. It's actually not that much more than a high end or overclocked RX 580 uses.
Though, I probably wouldn't pair an RTX 2080 with a Ryzen3 2200G, and if you are buying a $850+ graphics card then upgrading the PSU shouldn't be a huge budget-breaking cost to be concerned about anyway.

Do you know what graphics card you are looking to buy? Can give you more specific power usage figures if you know the model of GPU you want.
Otherwise if you want help picking a card, create a thread over in the Graphics Cards forums asking what GPU you should buy to give best bang for buck (be sure to include what games you play, what resolution, budget, etc)

[BleachedFur]

16 minutes ago, spirals said:

Wait what? are you sure a 400watt PSU can run a GPU with the minimum requirement of 600-700watts??

I ran an i5 3470 and GTX 1070 +2 drives on 240W, so yes.

[spirals]

4 minutes ago, Spotty said:

With your system it should be fine as long as you're not overclocking. If it was with a more power intensive CPU like an i7 then that would be more of an issue. An RTX2080 itself is usually between 200-250W power consumption. It's actually not that much more than a high end or overclocked RX 580 uses.
Though, I probably wouldn't pair an RTX 2080 with a Ryzen3 2200G, and if you are buying a $850+ graphics card then upgrading the PSU shouldn't be a huge budget-breaking cost to be concerned about anyway.

Do you know what graphics card you are looking to buy? Can give you more specific power usage figures if you know the model of GPU you want.
Otherwise if you want help picking a card, create a thread over in the Graphics Cards forums asking what GPU you should buy to give best bang for buck (be sure to include what games you play, what resolution, budget, etc)

I'm actually looking at a RTX 2060, but my CPU will be Ryzen 5 1600, but what if im still using the same PSU? Will it be enough

[Spotty]

Just now, spirals said:

I'm actually looking at a RTX 2060, but my CPU will be Ryzen 5 1600, but what if im still using the same PSU? Will it be enough

Yeah, Ryzen 5 1600 and RTX 2060 will be fine on the BQ Pure Power 10 400W.
Except you should wait a few weeks for Ryzen 3000 Zen2 processors instead. You already have a CPU so there shouldn't be any real rush to buy a replacement CPU now.

[mariushm]

RTX 2060 uses up to around 160 watts.

RX 570 can consume up to 175 watts.

 

A Ryzen 5 1600 will probably peak at around 80 watts. For example Ryzen 5 2600 was measured at 78 watts here : https://www.anandtech.com/show/13945/the-amd-ryzen-5-2500x-and-ryzen-3-2300x-cpu-review/19

 

Motherboard and ram will consume around 20-40 watts.

A mechanical drive will consume around 5-10 watts.

 

So 160 (video) +80 (cpu)+50 (mb+ram)+10(hdd) + 5w (fans) = 305 watts

 

Reasonably below the 400w rating of the psu.

 

Your only concern is if the power supply can supply enough current on 12v.

Since video card and CPU are both powered from 12v, you need the power supply to provide at least 160+80 = 240w plus some margin for safety on 12v... let's say 300w on 12v alone... 300w / 12v = 25A of current.

 

If you look on beQuiet's website at your model : https://www.bequiet.com/en/powersupply/928

you have the datasheet in the downloads section : https://www.bequiet.com/admin/ImageServer.php?ID=13998a9765@be-quiet.net&rand=94286a72b1c0652a7d605e817a80bbbf&lang=1&force=true&download=true&omitPreview=true

and there you can find the specifications:

 

 

so your power supply can provide 32A or 384w on 12v ... basically the power supply provides all power on 12v, and uses dc-dc converters to produce 3.3v and 5v as needed from these 384 watts.

If your motherboard or SSD or 5v light strip or whatever consumes 20 watts on 5v, the dc-dc converters in the psu take around 21-22 watts from the 12v budget and convert those 21-22 watts into 3.3v and 5v, around 20 watts of them (you lose a bit of power, those 1-2 watts, due to efficiency losses, pretty much no conversion is lossless in electronics)

[Stefan Payne]

11 hours ago, spirals said:

Wait what? are you sure a 400watt PSU can run a GPU with the minimum requirement of 600-700watts??

Yes, you can even use a VEGA64, with some tweaks (go 2 down 2 steps, -50mV and -23% Power Target).

 

I know, I tried today with my Pure Power 10 and played an hour or so Division 2 w/o VSYNC.

 

Your system is somewhere around 200W or lower.

[TechyBen]

On 4/26/2019 at 4:32 PM, BleachedFur said:

I ran an i5 3470 and GTX 1070 +2 drives on 240W, so yes.

Wow.