is 400w good for rx 570?

[ITS KRAM]

is 400w PSU good for rx 570 or i have to upgrade them? cause im gona get rx 570 soon.

[Jurrunio]

Yes but probably not this particular unit. Only be quiet has decent 400w unit I think, if even it.

[flibberdipper]

Depends what PSU it is, really. I've run a 3770 and oc'd GTX 480 ES on the seemingly universally-hated green label CX430M just fine.

[KarathKasun]

11 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

Depends what PSU it is, really. I've run a 3770 and oc'd GTX 480 ES on the seemingly universally-hated green label CX430M just fine.

Ive done the same on an old Thermaltake TR-430.

[mariushm]

It depends on power supply.

 

A RX 570 will consume up to around 175w from the 12v output of your power supply. The other components in your computer (processor, motherboard, mechanical hard drives) will consume let's say up to 100 watts from the 12v output of your power supply. (i don't see what processor you have, how many hard drives you have... 100w is something approximate for a quad core or 6 core processor made in the last few years)

 

So as long as your power supply can provide around 300w on the 12v output, you should be fine. Look on the label of your power supply and multiply the voltage with Current to get your wattage, if the actual watts are not written.

 

This is important because while the power supply says it can do 400w, a portion of that power will be reserved for other voltages like 5v and 3.3v, and the video card and processor don't use those voltages to power themselves.

[flibberdipper]

4 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Ive done the same on an old Thermaltake TR-430.

I really highly doubt you've run a 3770 and an overclocked engineering sample 480.

[YoFavRussian]

26 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

I really highly doubt you've run a 3770 and an overclocked engineering sample 480.

He might have meant that he ran a 3770 and a regular 480 that was overclocked (non-engineering sample)

I didn't realize your was an engineering sample until you pointed it out.

[KarathKasun]

3 minutes ago, YoFavRussian said:

He might have meant that he ran a 3770 and a regular 480 that was overclocked (non-engineering sample)

I didn't realize your was an engineering sample until you pointed it out.

ES gear is not that hard to get your hands on guys.

 

I have an ES Xeon E3-1280 chugging away in a general use desktop built for a family member, got it on e-bay for like $70.  Has ES etched on the IHS and reports as an ES to software.

[flibberdipper]

15 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

ES gear is not that hard to get your hands on guys.

 

I have an ES Xeon E3-1280 chugging away in a general use desktop built for a family member, got it on e-bay for like $70.  Has ES etched on the IHS and reports as an ES to software.

Have fun getting your hands on ES GPU's. ES CPU's are a dime a dozen.

[KarathKasun]

1 hour ago, flibberdipper said:

Have fun getting your hands on ES GPU's. ES CPU's are a dime a dozen.

I have seen a few in the wild, just gotta look around for them when back inventory is sent out to recycling.

 

If you really dig around, and are persistent, you can get all kinds of qualification and evaluation parts too.

 

If you know people in the qualification/eval departments of a company, you can get them for free many times, especially at the end of a dev/support cycle.  Ive gotten a number of parts this way.