280w PSU Enough?

[Ethan12k]

Hello everyone, I am helping a friend with a tight budget computer. He wants to buy a cheap refurb computer with a i5 2400 and 8gb of ram. I found a lenovo m91p with a %85 plus efficiency psu with only 280w is that enough for a gtx 750 ti? I cant fit a psu into his budget. The card has a 65w tdp with no power connector so all the power goes through the pcie slot.

 

Lenovo spec sheet if this helps- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/migr-76747

 

Thank you,

[Guest]

Yea should be perfectly fine but I would highly recommend that you go higher than that, you can pick good quality cheap PSUs at 400-450w, have a look at XFX which are cheap but built by SeaSonic which in my opinion are the best PSUs on the market.

 

I hope the PSU uses ATX, if so you'll be able to swap it for a decent unit.

[Ethan12k]

2 minutes ago, FJRiley said:

Yea should be perfectly fine but I would highly recommend that you go higher than that, you can pick good quality cheap PSUs at 400-450w, have a look at XFX which are cheap but built by SeaSonic which in my opinion are the best PSUs on the market.

 

I hope the PSU uses ATX, if so you'll be able to swap it for a decent unit.

Thank you for the reply the psu will only be in the system for a few months then he wants a corsair cx500 for the future.

[WereCat]

Yes it will be enough. I bet the PSU and motherboard will use proprietary connectors so you won't be able to switch to different PSU. 750ti and 1050 should work just fine.

[Ethan12k]

2 minutes ago, WereCat said:

Yes it will be enough. I bet the PSU and motherboard will use proprietary connectors so you won't be able to switch to different PSU. 750ti and 1050 should work just fine.

Thanks for the reply, the psu is upgradable many people have done it with the default motherboard and a corsair or seasonic psu.

[Guest]

Nice, you're all set then but I would try and make it sooner rather than later to perform the upgrade.

[Ethan12k]

1 minute ago, FJRiley said:

Nice, you're all set then but I would try and make it sooner rather than later to perform the upgrade.

Yea I will try to.

[Ethan12k]

I can do a slight underclock and decrease the max tdp on the cpu and gpu to be safe he will be fine with the underclock to be safe since hes just playing casual games on a 900p monitor. The computer costed 100 dollars and the gpu 75 cheap as hell worth every penny.

[B-17rocks]

31 minutes ago, Ethan12k said:

Hello everyone, I am helping a friend with a tight budget computer. He wants to buy a cheap refurb computer with a i5 2400 and 8gb of ram. I found a lenovo m91p with a %85 plus efficiency psu with only 280w is that enough for a gtx 750 ti? I cant fit a psu into his budget. The card has a 65w tdp with no power connector so all the power goes through the pcie slot.

 

Lenovo spec sheet if this helps- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/migr-76747

 

Thank you,

did you already get the 750 ti maybe you could opt for a 1050ti would be much better

[Ethan12k]

1 minute ago, B-17rocks said:

did you already get the 750 ti maybe you could opt for a 1050ti would be much better

I dont know he is on such a budget letting me chose the parts I dont know if a 1050 ti will fit in arent they like 140 USD? Anything over 100 is too much.

[B-17rocks]

4 minutes ago, Ethan12k said:

I dont know he is on such a budget letting me chose the parts I dont know if a 1050 ti will fit in arent they like 140 USD? Anything over 100 is too much.

EVGA makes the 1050 ti for 140 you could probably find one cheaper but the performance is SO MUCH better

[B-17rocks]

ok i just found a regular 1050 on EVGA's site for 109 and the performance is still better than the 750 ti by alot what is he looking to play?

[B-17rocks]

10 minutes ago, Ethan12k said:

I dont know he is on such a budget letting me chose the parts I dont know if a 1050 ti will fit in arent they like 140 USD? Anything over 100 is too much.

ok i just found a regular 1050 on EVGA's site for 109 and the performance is still better than the 750 ti by alot what is he looking to play?

[Ethan12k]

59 minutes ago, B-17rocks said:

ok i just found a regular 1050 on EVGA's site for 109 and the performance is still better than the 750 ti by alot what is he looking to play?

Sorry for the late reply but he wants to play csgo at 200 fps and some call of duty and bf4.

[Ethan12k]

1 hour ago, B-17rocks said:

ok i just found a regular 1050 on EVGA's site for 109 and the performance is still better than the 750 ti by alot what is he looking to play?

1050 tdp is 75w at them minimum. ti is also 75w minumum.

[WereCat]

2 hours ago, Ethan12k said:

Thanks for the reply, the psu is upgradable many people have done it with the default motherboard and a corsair or seasonic psu.

OK, I just wasn't 100% sure.

[B-17rocks]

4 hours ago, Ethan12k said:

Sorry for the late reply but he wants to play csgo at 200 fps and some call of duty and bf4.

he better get a 1050 ti he wont be getting 200 fps but near to it and it'll play those awesomely