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7 hours ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

You'd need to upgrade if you did SLI but otherwise it's a good PSU

You could actually SLI three 1080s if you had an i5 and didn't overclock anything. 

 

7 hours ago, Rickman108 said:

Hey guys, first time poster and PC builder here. I just bought all my parts last week and I'm just waiting for delivery of my CPU, GPU and case. I'm wondering if my PSU will be sufficient for the current parts I am putting into my PC. I plan to upgrade it, as I'm going to add more parts, such as more hard drives, solid state drives and possibly even SLI, but is it good enough for what I have in it right now? My specs can be found here: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Rickman108/saved/6GXmP6

If you want to overclocked your two 1080s in SLI then I would grab a 750W/850W. If you don't want to overclock then the 550W for two in SLI is fine. For one you're more than in the clear. Keep in mind the GTX 1080 does seem to really suck power once overclocked.

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Hey guys, first time poster and PC builder here. I just bought all my parts last week and I'm just waiting for delivery of my CPU, GPU and case. I'm wondering if my PSU will be sufficient for the current parts I am putting into my PC. I plan to upgrade it, as I'm going to add more parts, such as more hard drives, solid state drives and possibly even SLI, but is it good enough for what I have in it right now? My specs can be found here: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Rickman108/saved/6GXmP6

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Yes it's fine for what you have right now at peak usage... if you add another 1080 in SLI though it will definitely be puching the limits of that PSU at peak usage and I wouldn't recommend it... if you haven't bought the PSU yet, upgrade it to 650/850 G2/P2 PSU, and I'd be inclined to go with the 850W G2/P2 if SLI really.

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7 hours ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

You'd need to upgrade if you did SLI but otherwise it's a good PSU

You could actually SLI three 1080s if you had an i5 and didn't overclock anything. 

 

7 hours ago, Rickman108 said:

Hey guys, first time poster and PC builder here. I just bought all my parts last week and I'm just waiting for delivery of my CPU, GPU and case. I'm wondering if my PSU will be sufficient for the current parts I am putting into my PC. I plan to upgrade it, as I'm going to add more parts, such as more hard drives, solid state drives and possibly even SLI, but is it good enough for what I have in it right now? My specs can be found here: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Rickman108/saved/6GXmP6

If you want to overclocked your two 1080s in SLI then I would grab a 750W/850W. If you don't want to overclock then the 550W for two in SLI is fine. For one you're more than in the clear. Keep in mind the GTX 1080 does seem to really suck power once overclocked.

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