Question about psu and gpu

[Jutsu]

Hello as of now i have a 500w psu and a gtx 960 if i were to upgrade to a 1080 would i need to upgrade my psu or would 500w be enough? please respond and thank you very much for reading 

[birdhuman]

depending on your platform.

if you are using a fx8300 series or lga2011 system, PSU upgrade may be necessary.

otherwise you won't need to upgrade your PSU.

[Tech_Dreamer]

Minimal requirement should be a round 600 watts although  with the cards tdp being below 200 watts most of the time & overall pc draws somewhere below 350-450+ watts on peak,  i'm pretty sure 500 is sufficient & will not impact performance significantly ,  but would never hurt to get a good PSU if you have the chance & have the money to spend

[ShaunOfNintendo]

Go with a new 650w.

The 500w PSU you have right now is okay, but if you've been using for a long while the capacitors might have degraded a bit.

 

Luke did a good video on this today:

 

[manikyath]

Depends on the quality of the unit, and the rest of your system.

[Jutsu]

3 hours ago, ShaunOfNintendo said:

Go with a new 650w.

The 500w PSU you have right now is okay, but if you've been using for a long while the capacitors might have degraded a bit.

 

Luke did a good video on this today:

 

yeah i saw this but wanted to ask around as well thank you 

[JWPanz]

NVIDIA recommends a 500 watt PSU for the GTX 1080. However, it really depends on what other components you have running in your system. If you're packing an OC'd CPU and have a custom liquid cooling setup going on with other crazy things then you may want to go higher and with a better rating. But, if your PC is a regular set up then 500 watts should be fine. Use this calculator to see the estimated power draw of your system: http://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator.

[Jutsu]

3 hours ago, EnemySp0tt3d said:

I would upgrade to a 650 or 750 watt just to be safe.

thats what i was thinking 

[quan289]

3 hours ago, Jutsu said:

Hello as of now i have a 500w psu and a gtx 960 if i were to upgrade to a 1080 would i need to upgrade my psu or would 500w be enough? please respond and thank you very much for reading 

A good quality 450w PSU can power a system with a GTX 1080.

 

Whether or not you will need to replaced your "500w" PSU will depend on the specific model of the PSU that you are not telling us and the rest of your system specs. Is it a system with a non-OCed i5 6500? Or an heavily-OCed i7 5960x? Is it a Corsair CX500M, CX450M, or Cooler Master V450 (the CX500M is the worse of the three, btw) ?

[Jutsu]

also would i have to go into the biios to configure the new psu if i were to get one 

[quan289]

You are still not providing information regarding your system and the PSU.

3 hours ago, Jutsu said:

also would i have to go into the biios to configure the new psu if i were to get one 

No, you do not.