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What wattage PSU do I need for an AMD Radeon RX 6600XT?

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400w is borderline minimum.

150w for cpu

160w for gpu.

the rest 50w.

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Budget (including currency): ~1000€

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Valorant + Minecraft, university coding work

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): Intel Core i5 12400F, AMD Radeon RX 6600XT, 2 x 16GB DDR4 RAM, 400 Watt be quiet! System Power 9 80+ Bronze PSU

Main question is: Is this PSU going to be able to support my system? I've already bought the parts, but afterwards realized that a 400W PSU may not be enough for my components. Do I absolutely need a higher wattage PSU or is this slightly underpowered PSU OK?

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400w is borderline minimum.

150w for cpu

160w for gpu.

the rest 50w.

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10 hours ago, SupaKomputa said:

400w is borderline minimum.

150w for cpu

160w for gpu.

the rest 50w.

Great, thanks for the breakdown! Did you find these numbers on the manufacturers' websites? And from what I'm reading elsewhere online I should really be getting a 500W PSU, maybe 600W for future upgradeability right?

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from reviews. 500w should be good.

Ryzen 5700g @ 4.4ghz all cores | Asrock B550M Steel Legend | 3060 | 2x 16gb Micron E 2666 @ 4200mhz cl16 | 500gb WD SN750 | 12 TB HDD | Deepcool Gammax 400 w/ 2 delta 4000rpm push pull | Antec Neo Eco Zen 500w

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The upragadability at this point is not a great buying point. 

Soon there will be GPUs with 12-pin new standard cables.

Only good if not planning to upgrade to latest GPUs in future years.

I edit my posts more often than not

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