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Zmeya
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Hey folks!

 

I'm currently upgrading my system and purchased a lot of stuff. I upgraded my mainboard, my cpu, ram an gpu (1070gtx to a MSI GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING Z TRIO). As you all can imagen, upgrading so many components costed a lot of money and I thought maybe I could keep the power supply to save money. But now I'm starting to get worried that the psu may not  be enough. I tried to look up my build at pc part picker and it was marked as "okay" but I  don't know how accurate the watt usage estimation is.

 

I have a be quiet 700w silver+ psu (I bought my current pc prebuild in 2017, so that means the psu is almost 4 years old)

 

Anyone got an idea if its fine?

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35 minutes ago, Zmeya said:

What would happen if the psu isn't sufficient? Do I lose performence? does the gpu get damanged or something like that?

It shuts down safely. That's what the protections are there for. You can't lose performance from a PSU

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9 hours ago, seon123 said:

It shuts down safely. That's what the protections are there for. You can't lose performance from a PSU

Thanks! Problem is, I don‘t have enough money this month for a new psu, after dropping 2,6k for everything else.
So it‘s safe to at least try using the old psu? I really dont want to wait till december for my upgrade 😂

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29 minutes ago, Zmeya said:

So it‘s safe to at least try using the old psu?

yes. but even if ti works i would replace it anyway, and keep the old one as backup or use it to power NAS, hoem theathre or something like that. even a budget gaming rig

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50 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

yes. but even if ti works i would replace it anyway, and keep the old one as backup or use it to power NAS, hoem theathre or something like that. even a budget gaming rig

Can you recommend a good psu for my system? What kind of wattage should I get? 

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On 11/10/2021 at 3:40 PM, Zmeya said:

Hey folks!

 

I'm currently upgrading my system and purchased a lot of stuff. I upgraded my mainboard, my cpu, ram an gpu (1070gtx to a MSI GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING Z TRIO). As you all can imagen, upgrading so many components costed a lot of money and I thought maybe I could keep the power supply to save money. But now I'm starting to get worried that the psu may not  be enough. I tried to look up my build at pc part picker and it was marked as "okay" but I  don't know how accurate the watt usage estimation is.

 

I have a be quiet 700w silver+ psu (I bought my current pc prebuild in 2017, so that means the psu is almost 4 years old)

 

Anyone got an idea if its fine?

as far as I understand, there is no real long-term damage done by using a PSU with not enough wattage, so you can just see if it's enough, and if it's not, you can upgrade to a 1000w which should almost certainly be enough

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18 hours ago, Zmeya said:

germany

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