Power supply

[Anjoven]

Can I game on a 300w psu

[NMS]

Short answer probably not. But this is nothing more but a guess.

 

List your full system specifications and only then we can see.

[Dogsparky]

20 minutes ago, Anjoven said:

Can I game on a 300w psu

Agreed with NMS, depends on your specs, what games you are playing, if you are playing little indie games on minimal specs and only integrated graphics, you probably could. 

[awesomegamer919]

23 minutes ago, NMS said:

Short answer probably not. But this is nothing more but a guess.

 

List your full system specifications and only then we can see.

 

4 minutes ago, Dogsparky said:

Agreed with NMS, depends on your specs, what games you are playing, if you are playing little indie games on minimal specs and only integrated graphics, you probably could. 

Considering at stock you can run a 1080 + 8700K on a 300w under gaming load with ease, I highly disagree, you can game on the 300w if it's a remotely half decent unit...

[Dogsparky]

2 minutes ago, awesomegamer919 said:

 

Considering at stock you can run a 1080 + 8700K on a 300w under gaming load with ease, I highly disagree, you can game on the 300w if it's a remotely half decent unit...

Depends on the load, seen my brothers rig with a 1080 reach 450w consistently on a 8600k  

[Christophe Corazza]

31 minutes ago, Anjoven said:

Can I game on a 300w psu

 

This entirely depends on the components of your computer and how decent your power supply unit is.

Can you list your system specifications and the specific 300 W PSU that you have in mind?

[awesomegamer919]

14 minutes ago, Dogsparky said:

Depends on the load, seen my brothers rig with a 1080 reach 450w consistently on a 8600k  

Then he's
A: Power modding the GPU
B: Using a shitty power meter

C: Using a horribly inefficient PSU, skewing the results.

 

The 1080 is power limited at ~220w (180w TDP with a +20% cap is 216W) and an i5 8600K/i7 8700K draws some 80w or less during gaming: 

 

 

 

I have a 1080 + 7700K, I think I've broken 450w 3-4 times, usually when doing stupid levels of overclocking and runing utterly retarded programs (Furmark + IBT)

[seon123]

No. You also need a CPU, some sort of GPU, a motherboard etc. You can't game on just a PSU.

Maybe if you consider tic tac toe to be gaming, then you can draw on the PSU and "game" that way. 

[awesomegamer919]

1 minute ago, seon123 said:

No. You also need a CPU, some sort of GPU, a motherboard etc. You can't game on just a PSU.

Maybe if you consider tic tac toe to be gaming, then you can draw on the PSU and "game" that way. 

Oh yeah? https://hackaday.com/2017/11/24/modder-puts-computer-inside-a-power-supply/

[NMS]

2 hours ago, awesomegamer919 said:

 

Considering at stock you can run a 1080 + 8700K on a 300w under gaming load with ease, I highly disagree, you can game on the 300w if it's a remotely half decent unit...

So let's just forget about every other component in the system as it draws power from the AIR?! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

 

You CANNOT garantuee that the power supply of 300 watts will work for him WITHOUT full system specs.

[awesomegamer919]

24 minutes ago, NMS said:

So let's just forget about every other component in the system as it draws power from the AIR?! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

 

You CANNOT garantuee that the power supply of 300 watts will work for him WITHOUT full system specs.

The entire rest of the system draws fuckall power, SSDs draw <1A, fans draw <1A, HDDs draw fuckall... YOu act as if the rest of the system is an extra 200w, it's not, it's rarely above 30w...

 

As for "CANNOT" I noted that as long as it was a half decent unit it would be fine (I should add the caveat that if there's only a 10A rail for non-CPU +12VDC then he may have issues)

[NMS]

3 minutes ago, awesomegamer919 said:

The entire rest of the system draws fuckall power, SSDs draw <1A, fans draw <1A, HDDs draw fuckall... YOu act as if the rest of the system is an extra 200w, it's not, it's rarely above 30w...

 

As for "CANNOT" I noted that as long as it was a half decent unit it would be fine (I should add the caveat that if there's only a 10A rail for non-CPU +12VDC then he may have issues)

I'm sorry, but I barely understand what you're saying.

 

But at this point, your logic is the same as any power calculator's website.

[awesomegamer919]

13 minutes ago, NMS said:

I'm sorry, but I barely understand what you're saying.

Nothing there was unintelligible, I just use more technical terms.

A = Amps

+12VDC = 12V (More specifically in this case it was used to reference the relevant voltage).

Rail = Overcurrent trip points based on on cables - for instance your PSU may give 25A 12V total, but over the PCIe connectors you can only draw 15A.

13 minutes ago, NMS said:

But at this point, your logic is the same as any power calculator's website.

Sure, except I don't overestimate shit...

[Stefan Payne]

14 hours ago, Anjoven said:

Can I game on a 300w psu

Depends on the 300W PSU.

 

Its really hard to say, what are you talking about exactly? A +12V Only OEM PSU?

 

"a 300W" can go from some shit with 15A on +12V up to 25A on +12V.