How accurate is Outervision?

[Ubech]

I have a 550W evga g2 power supply with the following intel i7-8700k (oc'd to 4500Mhz @1.25V, 32GB of DDR4 ram, upgrading to 1080TI from RX580 1 256gb ssd and 2 1TB & 3TB HDD, 3 140mm fans and 1 120mm fan with plans to add 2 LED strips (white) and possibly liquid cooling in the future.

 

My load wattage from what its telling me is 560W with a recommended 610W. Not sure what the "Computer Utilization Time" is and how that factors in.

 

Is my 550W future proofed?

[Mira Yurizaki]

I don't think it's accurate. At least not with the labels they give. For example, putting my computer in, they claim that it'll eat up 405W of power and recommend a 455W power supply. However, I've measured my computer from the wall when running a game (what I'd consider a typical use case), and got about 230W. After efficiency losses it's really more around 200W. But PSUs are most efficient at 50% load, so the ~450W recommendation isn't actually far off.

 

Either way, most single video card systems will be fine with a decent quality 550W-600W power supply, even with all the bells and whistles.

[mortino]

I have the same power supply but the 650w version, and that website recommends 679 watts for my setup, the fans on that psu have only ever turned on under prime95 with furmark running at the same time with heavy overclocks, the fans don't turn on until the psu hits 50% utilization. So clearly the website is recommending double the PSU needed, at least in my case. I tested it from the wall a while back and I remember not breaking 300 watts while running heaven. You are good.

[Guest]

Divide by 2.

 

[STRMfrmXMN]

2 hours ago, Ubech said:

I have a 550W evga g2 power supply with the following intel i7-8700k (oc'd to 4500Mhz @1.25V, 32GB of DDR4 ram, upgrading to 1080TI from RX580 1 256gb ssd and 2 1TB & 3TB HDD, 3 140mm fans and 1 120mm fan with plans to add 2 LED strips (white) and possibly liquid cooling in the future.

 

My load wattage from what its telling me is 560W with a recommended 610W. Not sure what the "Computer Utilization Time" is and how that factors in.

 

Is my 550W future proofed?

Take this status update

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

 

And give it a good read and check out the Outervision link and see how much it suggests my system would use.

[Stefan Payne]

8 hours ago, Ubech said:

I have a 550W evga g2 power supply with the following intel i7-8700k (oc'd to 4500Mhz @1.25V, 32GB of DDR4 ram, upgrading to 1080TI from RX580 1 256gb ssd and 2 1TB & 3TB HDD, 3 140mm fans and 1 120mm fan with plans to add 2 LED strips (white) and possibly liquid cooling in the future.

You are using it wrong...

 

8 hours ago, Ubech said:

My load wattage from what its telling me is 560W with a recommended 610W. Not sure what the "Computer Utilization Time" is and how that factors in.

You trust something you don't know how it works, too much.
I don't trust it further than I can throw it because I know how it works.

 

ITs just adding some values that some people assume. And they have an interest in overestimating things because that makes them (or their partners) more money. 
Thus they do it.

 

And with that Knowledge, get a Powermeter!

Your system is probably in the 200-300W Mrange, depending 

8 hours ago, Ubech said:

Is my 550W future proofed?

Nobody knows what the Future wil bring.

And how long ATX will still last...

[Ubech]

On 8/1/2018 at 12:37 AM, STRMfrmXMN said:

Take this status update

https://linustechtips.com/main/p

rofile/112530-strmfrmxmn/?status=182458&type=status&page=2

 

And give it a good read and check out the Outervision link and see how much it suggests my system would use.

Thanks for that. That should be front page, which shows everyone and so they don't need to overspend on a psu. I've had people tell me it's close to what they've come to notice, but yeah, thanks.

On 8/1/2018 at 12:24 AM, jonnyGURU said:

Divide by 2.

 

Wow, the difference.

 

 

So it's fine for my OC'd cpu, but what if I want to overclock the 1080 a little?

[STRMfrmXMN]

2 hours ago, Ubech said:

 

 

So it's fine for my OC'd cpu, but what if I want to overclock the 1080 a little?

You can OC your 1080 on whatever it lets you OC to. Unless it's on LN2 you're fine.