450w EVGA BT powering a GTX 580?

[ellisif]

Do you think it would be safe to run a GTX 580 on a 450w EVGA BT power supply? There are a pair of 580s locally for $30 each which is a steal, but I know they're notoriously hot and hungry. I was wondering if I could drop it into a budget build with a 450W or should I upgrade the PSU before attempting it? Cooling is not an issue.

 

The CPU is a G4560 in an Asrock B250m Pro4. 1 stick of DDR4 2400, 2 case fans, an SSD and HDD. I feel like the ultra low power draw of the G4560 would make it stable but I'm not sure...

[LienusLateTips]

No

[Stefan Payne]

Well, 30$ for a pair of GTX 580 isn't that great, especially since those cards are 7 years old, hot and might (or rather will) die any minute...

Get something else instead...

[STRMfrmXMN]

10 minutes ago, ellisif said:

Do you think it would be safe to run a GTX 580 on a 450w EVGA BT power supply? There are a pair of 580s locally for $30 each which is a steal, but I know they're notoriously hot and hungry. I was wondering if I could drop it into a budget build with a 450W or should I upgrade the PSU before attempting it? Cooling is not an issue.

 

The CPU is a G4560 in an Asrock B250m Pro4. 1 stick of DDR4 2400, 2 case fans, an SSD and HDD. I feel like the ultra low power draw of the G4560 would make it stable but I'm not sure...

nah

[LienusLateTips]

2 minutes ago, Stefan Payne said:

Well, 30$ for a pair of GTX 580 isn't that great, especially since those cards are 7 years old, hot and might (or rather will) die any minute...

Get something else instead...

It's great if it was in Canadian Rupees!

 

GTX 980 sells for $400 here

[ellisif]

3 minutes ago, Stefan Payne said:

Well, 30$ for a pair of GTX 580 isn't that great, especially since those cards are 7 years old, hot and might (or rather will) die any minute...

Get something else instead...

I don't wanna put more than a few dollars here or there into this rig, it's not my personal one and doesn't need more than a 580 or something similar.

 

$30 is excellent for what it is; a hot, power guzzling old card that can still kinda run games, you can't really get anything else that can run stuff for $30. They go for double that on ebay etc

 

I'll just upgrade the PSU so there's room for a i5-7400 or something in a year down the line also

[SkilledRebuilds]

I put a HD7970 (huge power consumption when OCd to 1150Mhz+) in a i5 4core 3.7Ghz machine with lights n all that throughout the case, on a 450w PSU, run fine, overclocked as well,....still runs today.

It can be done.... depends on other components too though.

 

But if I can get away with ^ this on a 450w PSU, your likely going to be fine.