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Upgrading GPU. need some help

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yes that is fine it say on the calculator 479w with the new i7 non oc and a high end water cooler

so my current PC:

CPU: i5 3470 3.2Ghz

GPU: GTX 760 2gb

Storage: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 2.5 SATA III 500GB, WD green 500Gb, WD Green 3Tb

Power Supply: Antec 550w

 

Semi New Build: 

CPU: i5 3470 3.2Ghz

GUP: GTX 970 4gb

Storage: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 2.5 SATA III 500GB, WD green 500Gb, WD Green 3Tb

Power Supply: Antec 550w

 

i need to know. is that power supply enough for the semi new build? should i get a 850w corsair power supply future proofing because later this year i wanna get an i7 3770k with liquid cooling..

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Just now, Tautedorus said:

I guess that you should be fine with this PSU.

so should get that 850w later, when i get a new cpu?

Intel® Core™ i7-6700K 4.9Ghz | MSI RTX 2070 Gaming Z | 32GB Corsair DDR4 3200Mhz | Samsung M.2 970 EVO nVME 256GB | 960 EVO 256GB SSD | WD Black 4TB 7200RPM HDD | WD Black 8TB 7200RPM HDD | Corsair Obsidian 500 RGB | Zalman 850w Gold

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Just now, mangeHD said:

hi i just need to know your ram and how many fans you have and if your cpu is water cooled

 

16gb of RAM, CPU has a stock cooler and my graphics cards fans. no other fans. just my stock cooler on the cpu. and the fans on the graphics card. i wanna get a new case and with it will come 1 120mm fan with red LEDs

Intel® Core™ i7-6700K 4.9Ghz | MSI RTX 2070 Gaming Z | 32GB Corsair DDR4 3200Mhz | Samsung M.2 970 EVO nVME 256GB | 960 EVO 256GB SSD | WD Black 4TB 7200RPM HDD | WD Black 8TB 7200RPM HDD | Corsair Obsidian 500 RGB | Zalman 850w Gold

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Just now, mangeHD said:

yes that is fine it say on the calculator 479w with the new i7 non oc and a high end water cooler

hmm thanks..

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