Computer Power Intake

[Kazmax212]

Budget (including currency): anything

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: gaming in general

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

If my GPU has a recommended power supply of 650 watts, and I get a 650 watt power supply, will any of the other parts receive power? Or is the power supply fine for the system?

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39 minutes ago, Kazmax212 said:

Budget (including currency): anything

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: gaming in general

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

If my GPU has a recommended power supply of 650 watts, and I get a 650 watt power supply, will any of the other parts receive power? Or is the power supply fine for the system?

 

GPU specs typically specify two power numbers, graphic card power and required (or recommended) system power. Some manufacturers will outline the components used to arrive at the system power number. (Nvidia for example bases its RTX 3000 cpu required system power numbers on an i9-10900K equipped system.)

 

Graphic card power is the maximum power draw of the GPU at stock settings.

[Kazmax212]

42 minutes ago, LloydLynx said:

The recommended power supply wattage is for the whole system, assuming the whole system has specs that make sense with the graphics card. Like the manufacturers assume if you got a mid range GPU, you'd also have other mid range parts, and getting a high end GPU probably means the rest of your system is high end. If you want to know how much power the graphics card takes, look for TDP.

TDP?

 

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9 hours ago, Kazmax212 said:

TDP?

 

 

Thermal Design Power.