PSU Compatibility (GPU Upgrade)

Arika · July 3, 2019

I've been planning for a while to move to an ultrawide monitor however I don't think my little GTX1060 is going to be able to power the extra screenspace in a manner i would be happy with, so i'm likely going to be upgrading my GPU along with the new monitor. my main concern is my power supply and whether or not that needs an upgrade.

I currently have a SilverStone SFX Gold 500W SX500-LG

and would be looking at upgrading to one of the following.

RTX2060

RTX2060 Super (depending on price and availability)

RTX2070 (very upper end of my preferred budget)

Vega 64 (power consumption looks like it might be too high though).

RX5700 (waiting for independent reviews)

Looking at PCPP there's a number of builds using this PSU with GPUs more powerful than the above, but i have also overclocked my CPU (7600k to 4.7) and have no idea how much that affects it's power consumption.

According to the Legacy PSU tier list it's in Tier D

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Tier D

Silverstone - Strider Plus, Gold SFX

no idea what this really means though.

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xdeathshot20 · July 3, 2019

for most systems tho 500w is more then enough especially since it seems like your is a small form factor build. I would say that you should be good to go.

LukeSavenije · July 3, 2019

from what i can see personally is that it's a sirfa, has a sleeve fan and a somewhat high ripple on the 3.3/5v side. nothing too concerning, but that sleeve fan will probably fail faster

i think it would be around tier b