Is It Safe To Pair My 1060 With This PSU?

[toastythomas]

My brother just picked up a 1060 6GB from Zotac. My only worry though is that my PSU is not good enough to handle the power draw from it. With the new GPU installed, it will draw 259W under load according to CM PSU Calculator. My PSU is 700W so it should be fine however, I bought it when I was young and dumb and it's from Raidmax. Here it is. http://a.co/fmjDFxQ. It's enough wattage but I'm worried that the qualitiy isn't high enough. 

 

 

When I posted the build on PCPartPicker someone replied,

Spoiler

So long as you are not pushing it things should be fine for some time to come. However the lower end PSU's (like this one) use cheaper parts and cut corners. Cheaper compasiters will blow caps when pushed too far, and some of the protections that will keep the mobo safe in the event of PSU failure will be skimped. This means a failure that would make you replace a high end PSU will make you replace the entire system with this PSU as nothing (or not enough) is keeping the other hardware safe. Also cheap PSU's are notorious for not meeting their output rating. For example a cheap PSU rated at 500w may only be able to hit 350w.

I have never had a cheap PSU completely fail on me. However I had an enland gold PSU just to test parts with kill a HDD. When I looked everything over apparently the pins on the power connector were not separated correctly and arched frying the PCB on the HDD. People will give you all kinds of horror stories, most of them are exaggerations but as with most stories there is base truth.

Unfortunately I cannot find any direct reviews (from places like Jonnyguru) on this PSU. So we are stuck going off of raidmaxes reputation which is not that good, though they do have a few good PSU’s like the RX-700AT.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1812549/raidmax-blackstone-series-700ac-700w-work.html

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=470

 

[bellabichon]

750w should be more than enough for that kind of system, but a cheap PSU probably wouldn't be able to push that amount of power constantly. Be careful with how much power you're drawing, but it should be fine. 

[TVwazhere]

@Princess Cadence *has flashbacks to the green PSU from brazil running 980ti sli*

 

 

[SquintyG33Rs]

it can't put out 700W but a 1060 system won't pull more than 300 so you should be fine