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Is a 550w power supply enough?

azize
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Good day!

This is my second time posting in this forum and I am still a newbie regarding PCs.

 

It has been a month since my father and I bought this PC (we haven't bought a GPU yet due to the crazy prices right now). Everything is fine until I thought about the power supply we bought, which is a Corsair TX550. I'm currently worried because the PSU we bought may not be enough once we're able to buy a GPU. I've tried power supply calculators like Cooler Master, BeQuiet and Outervision, but I can't still figure out whether this PSU is already enough because other people say that some PSU calculators are exaggerated. I really want to be sure if this PSU is enough so that I can decide whether to save for a new one or not. :( 

Here are the specs of my PC:

Processor: Intel Core i7 8700
Motherboard: ASRock Z370 Extreme4

RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16GB 2400MHz (2 sets of 2x4GB)

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master MasterLiquid Lite 120 (1 fan)

Case Fans: Raidmax R120TP (I have 3 of them, I might add another one soon) 

HDD: Seagate 1TB (7.2K RPM)
SSD:  Adata SU800 256GB (I will buy this along with the extra fan soon)

Optical Drive: Asus 24x Internal DVD-RW 

GPU: Asus ROG Strix GTX 1080 Ti OC (This is our target GPU but we don't have it yet)

I don't have other accessories like RGB strips or what. I don't and I won't overclock anything too.

I usually use my PC for 14-16 hours per day.


Thank you.

 

 

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it's fine. It will reach 90% of capacity at most (with heavy OC), still safe for long periods of use.

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Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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49 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

it's fine. It will reach 90% of capacity at most (with heavy OC), still safe for long periods of use.

Thank you so much! 

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41 minutes ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

The TX550M is fine.

 

Also, buy the SSD now and HDD later, not the other way around.

Got it. Thank you!!  

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So, does this mean I don't have to buy a 650w or a 750w PSU? 

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2 minutes ago, azize said:

So, does this mean I don't have to buy a 650w or a 750w PSU? 

Yes lol, if the power supply is any good it usually means it's rated for 24/7 operation at it's full rating as long as it does not surpass it's temperature limit.

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9 minutes ago, JDE said:

Yes lol, if the power supply is any good it usually means it's rated for 24/7 operation at it's full rating as long as it does not surpass it's temperature limit.

Okay, thank you very much! :)

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