How many watts do I need for gaming?

[thegopnik]

Help me plz

[fuzz0r]

Depends on the rest of your specifications.

[Lurick]

Based on the copious amounts of information such as a parts list you've given us, you need 0 watts

[Fasauceome]

 

 

I have yet to see a reasonable gaming PC that has one GPU which will consume over 500 watts (in the modern day anyway)

 

That includes an i9 9900K and 2080ti, both overclocked. You wanna get crazy with that, do a custom water loop and you can probably push 550.

[Zando_]

You need as many watts as your hardware will pull, maybe 10-30% more if you wanna play it safe. 

[Tan3l6]

You don't need watts you need a PSU

[Princess Luna]

6 minutes ago, thegopnik said:

Help me plz

Then help us help you by providing any information what so ever.

[thegopnik]

3 hours ago, Lurick said:

Based on the copious amounts of information such as a parts list you've given us, you need 0 watts

Your humour kills me.

CPU: Intel i3 8100

Gigabyte z370p d3

gtx 1060 3gb

8gb ram

anything else to consider?

at the moment i have a vs350

[thegopnik]

3 hours ago, Fasauceome said:

 

 

I have yet to see a reasonable gaming PC that has one GPU which will consume over 500 watts (in the modern day anyway)

 

That includes an i9 9900K and 2080ti, both overclocked. You wanna get crazy with that, do a custom water loop and you can probably push 550.

Thanks. your nicer than Lurik

[Zando_]

3 hours ago, Queen Chrysallis said:

laughs in 9900K (OCd) + 2080 ti (stock) on a rm850i unit

laughs in low power Xeon, 1660 Ti, and 1050 Ti on a 1000W G3, and before that a stock X5670, 1660 Ti, and 1050 Ti on a 1600W T2

[Fasauceome]

22 minutes ago, thegopnik said:

Thanks. your nicer than Lurik

He's right though, if you want to get power requirements it depends on the parts you're gonna use

[Fasauceome]

24 minutes ago, thegopnik said:

Your humour kills me.

CPU: Intel i3 8100

Gigabyte z370p d3

gtx 1060 3gb

8gb ram

anything else to consider?

at the moment i have a vs350

Based on these parts, your PSU is technically sufficient as your rig will probably draw about 250 watts at the very most, but the VS line of power supplies is pretty low quality compared to what you should have for a gaming PC. Once you upgrade, I definitely recommend a new power supply.