Too much power?

[F3nrique]

Hi!

Well, this is the problem my friend have a GTX1060 6Gb, the minimum voltage that this card need is 450W, my friend bought one of 600W, I don't know too much about this but I know that if the power is not the correct it can damage the PC, is it too much power or is alrigth?

 

His expecs:

I3 6100

Gtx1060 6Gb

8x2 DDR4 2133 MHz

H170-D3HP

 

Thank you.

[rphawks]

2 minutes ago, F3nrique said:

Hi!

Well, this is the problem my friend have a GTX1060 6Gb, the minimum voltage that this card need is 450W, my friend bought one of 600W, I don't know too much about this but I know that if the power is not the correct it can damage the PC, is it too much power or is alrigth?

 

His expecs:

I3 6100

Gtx1060 6Gb

16Gb DDR4 2133 MHz

H170-D3HP

 

Thank you.

Er... what's your question?

[Enderman]

If it's too little the PC will not work.

If it's too much the PC will only use what it needs.

So no, there is no issue.

[xephoneration]

you do not need a 600w psu for your build. because you are not OCing the cpu for starters and intel and nvidia cpu/cards, are more power efficient. the only reason, still not really, if you have a massive raid going on and some other crazy stuff going on that draws more power than needed from 450w. 

[F3nrique]

1 minute ago, rphawks said:

Er... what's your question?

If the 600W are too much for the PC?

[Lurick]

A power supply only outputs as much power as the components require. Ex: If you put a 1000 watt power supply in that system it's not going to shove 1000 watts into the system. A 600 watt was probably a good choice on his part to give him upgrade headroom in the future.

[rphawks]

1 minute ago, F3nrique said:

If the 600W are too much for the PC?

Should be fine. An extra 200 or so watts won't do any harm. 

[xephoneration]

1 minute ago, Lurick said:

A power supply only outputs as much power as the components require. Ex: If you put a 1000 watt power supply in that system it's not going to shove 1000 watts into the system. A 600 watt was probably a good choice on his part to give him upgrade headroom in the future.

i agree on that, completely. 

[CookieMaster]

Extra power won't hurt and is better for future proofing. 

[F3nrique]

1 minute ago, Lurick said:

A power supply only outputs as much power as the components require. Ex: If you put a 1000 watt power supply in that system it's not going to shove 1000 watts into the system. A 600 watt was probably a good choice on his part to give him upgrade headroom in the future.

Oh I dind't know that, I remember when I had my first PC, , I had a PSU of 750W and a GTX650 and it worked fine for a while but then a problem started, the PC started to shut down while I was playing and the problem was de PSU I changed ir for one of 500W and it started to work fine. And i was afraid that it will happend to my friend too. Thank you.

[Enderman]

6 minutes ago, xephoneration said:

you do not need a 600w psu for your build. because you are not OCing the cpu for starters and intel and nvidia cpu/cards, are more power efficient. the only reason, still not really, if you have a massive raid going on and some other crazy stuff going on that draws more power than needed from 450w. 

I think you missed the point that his friend already has the 600W power supply.

[F3nrique]

Thanks everyone for the help! Thank you!

[xephoneration]

Just now, Enderman said:

I think you missed the point that his friend already has the 600W power supply.

no i understood what he said. Im just saying you really dont need a 600w psu for the op build. 

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, xephoneration said:

no i understood what he said. Im just saying you really dont need a 600w psu for the op build. 

Except that's not what he's asking...?

He wants to know if the 600W PSU his friend already has will damage the PC...

[xephoneration]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

Except that's not what he's asking...?

He wants to know if the 600W PSU his friend already has will damage the PC...

you are thinking too hard about this... I was addressing that he does not need it and already his question was addressed that a 600w wont kill his pc... so there is really no need to be lost in translation here.

[STRMfrmXMN]

19 minutes ago, F3nrique said:

Hi!

Well, this is the problem my friend have a GTX1060 6Gb, the minimum voltage that this card need is 450W, my friend bought one of 600W, I don't know too much about this but I know that if the power is not the correct it can damage the PC, is it too much power or is alrigth?

 

His expecs:

I3 6100

Gtx1060 6Gb

8x2 DDR4 2133 MHz

H170-D3HP

 

Thank you.

You could power it with a 2000W server PSU and be fine. The only issue might be the 600W being low-quality. What PSU is it?

[F3nrique]

3 minutes ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

You could power it with a 2000W server PSU and be fine. The only issue might be the 600W being low-quality. What PSU is it?

Is an Evga

[STRMfrmXMN]

2 minutes ago, F3nrique said:

Is an Evga

What EVGA? EVGA sells several PSUs of varying quality and performance.

 

If it's the 600B you're fine. If it's the 80 PLUS rated version I'd return it and upgrade.

[F3nrique]

4 minutes ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

What EVGA? EVGA sells several PSUs of varying quality and performance.

 

If it's the 600B you're fine. If it's the 80 PLUS rated version I'd return it and upgrade.

Is the 80 Plus version, is it that bad?

[STRMfrmXMN]

14 minutes ago, F3nrique said:

Is the 80 Plus version, is it that bad?

It's a pretty poor quality PSU. If you could return it and buy a 450/500/600B then it would soothe my senses

[F3nrique]

3 minutes ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

It's a pretty poor quality PSU. If you could return it and buy a 450/500/600B then it would soothe my senses

Ok thanks for the info, I will see if he can return it