Power Supply Recommendations

[fujukel]

Hi Everyone,

 

I plan on building a PC for graphic designing and also plan on overclocking my CPU. PCPartPicker has the estimated power consumption is 217W. WIll a 500W power supply be fine. I have the following spec: 

 

Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor

Corsair H115i 104.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

MSI Z170A PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard

Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory

Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit

 

 

[Namija]

500w should be okay, but I would go with a 650w since they aren't a whole lot more expensive and it gives you more room for upgrading/adding things down the road.

[GDRRiley]

get a much better psu look for the list in my sig. a tier 1 or 2. 

[alexhelvetica]

You can easily run that computer off a 150W PSU since you don't have a GPU.

 

I wouldn't recommend an EVGA Certified 500W, I would recommend you get a Corsair CX450M, since they are really good and fairly cheap,you can also get a really nice GPU in the future if you need one. 

[TrazosD]

Power supply calculator. and, select an 80 plus gold  / platinum / titanium PSU with Active PFC

You should think about get a GPU for graphic design... if you get Nvidia, 500w PSU will be fine... is you get Amd, you will need a 1000w PSU hahahahahahahha ( it's a joke) 

[alexhelvetica]

7 minutes ago, TrazosD said:

Power supply calculator. and, select an 80 plus gold  / platinum / titanium PSU with Active PFC

No, never psu calculators, they mean fuck all (wattage requirements times a number above 2 = "wattage calculator") and efficiency means fuck all, Antec Earthwatts Platinum (80Plus Platinum Efficiency) vs Corsair Vengeance (80Plus Bronze Efficiency), Vengeance is excellent, Earthwatts Platinum is average, you would be a fool to pick the Earthwatts Platinum.