960 SLI i5 4690K 4.8GHZ ON 550W?

[donsleeq]

I want to know if it will be possible to run 2 960s in sli and and oveclocked 4690k at 4.5-4.8 ghz all on a 550W power supply from NZXT

[brokencross]

Of course not. Minimum 650w quality PSU. 

And who would sli 960s? What an utter waste of money.

[Majestic]

Of course not. Minimum 750w quality PSU. 

 

Is this sarcasm? Because it's very wrong... 4690K + 960SLI overclocked would maybe use... 300-400 watt.

[brokencross]

Is this sarcasm? Because it's very wrong... 4690K + 960SLI overclocked would maybe use... 300-400 watt.

Typo. Meant 650. And don't go around cutting corners. It's better to have some overhead than expecting the PSU to work fine always operating at its limit wattage.

[Majestic]

Typo. Meant 650. And don't go around cutting corners. It's better to have some overhead than expecting the PSU to work fine always operating at its limit wattage.

 

But a 550W power supply wouldn't be operating at it's limits with 960 SLI. The only issue might be PEG connectors.

[Swndlr]

Of course not. Minimum 650w quality PSU. 

And who would sli 960s? What an utter waste of money.

i5 + 960 SLI uses very little

will likely not even use more than ~350 watts

[brokencross]

i5 + 960 SLI uses very little

will likely not even use more than ~350 watts

Two 960s stock use around 300w. Couple that with a heavily overclocked 4690k and some other components and 550w would be pushing it. 

[Swndlr]

Two 960s stock use around 300w. Couple that with a heavily overclocked 4690k and some other components and 550w would be pushing it. 

yeh... not really.

[donsleeq]

Of course not. Minimum 650w quality PSU. 

And who would sli 960s? What an utter waste of money

The monitor i have now will only need one 960 and also my budget wont allow a 970 .

so what im planning to do is to buy a power supply that can handle 960 sli so in future when i get some more money i will get a better monitor and another 960 for  sli.. and also 970 doesnt beat 2 960s tho .. in some rear cases and even a 980 doesnt also

 

960 SLI vs 970

 

960 SLI vs 980

[Aniallation]

Two 960s stock use around 300w. Couple that with a heavily overclocked 4690k and some other components and 550w would be pushing it. 

Yes, so two 960s = R9 290.

 

 

And this is with an overclocked EE i7. 

 

OP will be perfectly fine considering it's a good quality 550W.

[Aniallation]

I want to know if it will be possible to run 2 960s in sli and and oveclocked 4690k at 4.5-4.8 ghz all on a 550W power supply from NZXT

As stated above yes, but two issues

 

-SLI 960 isn't a good idea

-NZXT PSUs aren't great for the money

[connorpiper]

yeh... not really.

 

My entire system (OC 3570K and OC SLI GTX 760s) uses 290W. On a 650W Gold 80+ PSU. 

[CyberAtlas]

To be safe get 800W because it looks as if your going to be overclocking some things.

[CyberAtlas]

And everyone! Everyones PC build is their own preference. Stop judging them on it unless it really is something that makes absolutely no logical sense.

[Swndlr]

My entire system (OC 3570K and OC SLI GTX 760s) uses 290W. On a 650W Gold 80+ PSU. 

doubt it.

[donsleeq]

As stated above yes, but two issues

 

-SLI 960 isn't a good idea

-NZXT PSUs aren't great for the money

 

The monitor i have now will only need one 960 and also my budget wont allow a 970 .

so what im planning to do is to buy a power supply that can handle 960 sli so in future when i get some more money i will get a better monitor and another 960 for  sli.. and also 970 doesnt beat 2 960s tho .. in some rear cases and even a 980 doesnt also

 

960 SLI vs 970

 

960 SLI vs 980

[connorpiper]

doubt it.

 

The PSU fan turns on at 40% (And alternates at 35%). I have not been able to turn on the fan. Which means I have been using. ~33% of 650W. Which is 214W. 

Then add in about 89% efficiency (@ 45% load I get 92% efficiency). Which is 404W at max load. I said 290W because I meant 390W, but mistyped because I was not on my own keyboard at the time. 

[Aniallation]

The monitor i have now will only need one 960 and also my budget wont allow a 970 .

so what im planning to do is to buy a power supply that can handle 960 sli so in future when i get some more money i will get a better monitor and another 960 for  sli.. and also 970 doesnt beat 2 960s tho .. in some rear cases and even a 980 doesnt also

You'll want the 4GB 960's for SLI though, because two 960s with 2GB of VRAM across both will become a bottleneck if you upgrade monitor, even to a 1080p one.