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550W PSU running 1070 in sli and other upgrades.

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I am currently using a gaming pc with a Asus Turbo 1060, 6700k and 16gb of 2400mhz hyperx memory. Christmas is coming up soon and i am interested in upgrading to 1070s in sli and 32gb of 3000mhz trident z ram, i am concerned that my current 550w power supply can not handle a sli setup. Keep in mind that i do not overclock any of my parts.

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14 minutes ago, travisthemoonstar_ said:

I am currently using a gaming pc with a Asus Turbo 1060, 6700k and 16gb of 2400mhz hyperx memory. Christmas is coming up soon and i am interested in upgrading to 1070s in sli and 32gb of 3000mhz trident z ram, i am concerned that my current 550w power supply can not handle a sli setup. Keep in mind that i do not overclock any of my parts.

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What 550W PSU do you have?

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11 minutes ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

What 550W PSU do you have?

i believe i have a 80plus silver cougar stx power supply.

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5 hours ago, travisthemoonstar_ said:

i believe i have a 80plus silver cougar stx power supply.

Pls make a picture of the label and post it here.

 

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What do you even do with this computer?

Personal Desktop":

CPU: Intel Core i7 10700K @5ghz |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock Pro 4 |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Z490UD ATX|~| RAM: 16gb DDR4 3333mhzCL16 G.Skill Trident Z |~| GPU: RX 6900XT Sapphire Nitro+ |~| PSU: Corsair TX650M 80Plus Gold |~| Boot:  SSD WD Green M.2 2280 240GB |~| Storage: 1x3TB HDD 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda + SanDisk Ultra 3D 1TB |~| Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini |~| Display: Toshiba UL7A 4K/60hz |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro.

Luna, the temporary Desktop:

CPU: AMD R9 7950XT  |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock 4 Pro |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus Master |~| RAM: 32G Kingston HyperX |~| GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX (Reference) |~| PSU: Corsair HX1000 80+ Platinum |~| Windows Boot Drive: 2x 512GB (1TB total) Plextor SATA SSD (RAID0 volume) |~| Linux Boot Drive: 500GB Kingston A2000 |~| Storage: 4TB WD Black HDD |~| Case: Cooler Master Silencio S600 |~| Display 1 (leftmost): Eizo (unknown model) 1920x1080 IPS @ 60Hz|~| Display 2 (center): BenQ ZOWIE XL2540 1920x1080 TN @ 240Hz |~| Display 3 (rightmost): Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 3840x2160 IPS @ 60Hz 10-bit |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro (games / art) + Linux (distro: NixOS; programming and daily driver)
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Depending on what you're doing SLI could definetly be worth it but i'm here to answer your actual question.... It's not enough. I'm running a 1700x CPU with dual 1070's and pulling 570 watts peak from the wall at full load... I wouldn't go any lower than 750 watt PSU, a good one at that.

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10 hours ago, travisthemoonstar_ said:

i believe i have a 80plus silver cougar stx power supply.

There are no 80 PLUS Silver Cougar STX units. I'm guessing it's just a base 80 PLUS unit, meaning that you should absolutely replace that unit now. 

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1 hour ago, Steemax said:

Depending on what you're doing SLI could definetly be worth it but i'm here to answer your actual question.... It's not enough. I'm running a 1700x CPU with dual 1070's and pulling 570 watts peak from the wall at full load... I wouldn't go any lower than 750 watt PSU, a good one at that.

Keep in mind, "at the wall" doesn't account for PSU efficiency. My 1700X and 970, both overclocked, draw 369W at the wall under full unrealistic stress load. That means about 330W drawn from my PSU.

https://linustechtips.com/main/profile/112530-strmfrmxmn/?status=182458&type=status&page=2

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