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Is 550 Watt enough?

Keigin
By Keigin
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Hi all, just need some advice on how much power I need for my system.

 

Im using a pre-built gaming pc from Acer which uses a 450 watt psu. Planning on upgrading this now. I originally just wanted to upgrade the gpu but psu is also a good idea. 

 

Ive ordered a larger case and a gtx-970 gpu. After some researching I thought maybe replacing the motherboard but Im going to keep the i7 2600 cpu which came with the pre-build. Maybe some faster RAM would also help my system, specially with games which is what I need it for mostly, so some 1600mhz corsais vengeance rams would surely be good. Want to run about 4 or 5 fans plus a cpu cooler in the new case for better cooling. Gigabyte recommends 550watts for the card. So can I get away with that for the system? Or do I need 650 watts? Im not going to be overclocking anything and the card is already OC. 

 

And can someone recommend a decent not too expensive psu? Maybe something semi-or fully modular? Or is that not so relevant for someone starting out with the whole pc upgrading?

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You could even use a 430W PSU and it would run fine. A 550W PSU is more than enough

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550Watt 80+ is good enough for 2 980s, you'll be just fine with a 970. 

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550w is more than enough. 

CPU:  i7 5820k  @4.0Ghz Cooler: Thermaltake Nic C5 Motherboard: MSI X99A SLI PLUS  Ram: 8 gb @2133Mhz GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 @1560  Case: Proprietary Sun Ultra 24  Storage: HyperX 120gb & 1 TB WD Green PSU: Cooler Master 550w 

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550 ftw, even if u sli 970 is still ftw

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Awesome :D 

 

Any PSU you would recommend? 

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Ok thanks, the V550 from cooler master is the same thing as vsm-550 I saw. 

 

 

Thats better than the SeaSonic one?

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