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GTX 970 Power Needed

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Hello guys, I was wondering if my PSU 520 Watts Seasonic M12-II Evo is enough to handle the Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming, beacuse i visited their site and i saw this

"Recommended system power supply requirement: 550W(with one 6-pin and one 8-pin external power connectors)" its weird 

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It's almost certainly more than enough for it. More often than not the power requirement on the site is always a good bit more than what is actually needed because they don't know if you're running some dual core Celeron or a monster power whore HEDT chip.

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2 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

It's almost certainly more than enough for it. More often than not the power requirement on the site is always a good bit more than what is actually needed because they don't know if you're running some dual core Celeron or a monster power whore HEDT chip.

Alright, so theres no problem on it?

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1 minute ago, wONKEyeYEs said:

Now these measurements would increase with CPU OCing but generally

thing look good.

 

"Measured power consumption GTX 970

System in IDLE = 120 Watts
System Wattage with GPU in FULL Stress = 280 Watts
Difference (GPU load) = 160 Watts
Add average IDLE wattage ~10 Watts
Subjective obtained GPU power consumption = ~ 170 Watts
Mind you, the system wattage is measured at the wall socket side and there are other variables like PSU power efficiency. So this is an estimated value, albeit a very good one. "

https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/gigabyte-geforce-gtx-970-g1-gaming-review,7.html

 

I don't get over 430W on my main system with a GTX 980 and i7 6700k.

thanks! i thought i need to buy another PSU lol

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NVIDIA recommends a minimum of 500W, higher than that is more than enough.

I've been wondering that as well, maybe it's for a headroom. I'm running GTX 970 (MSI) on a 500W PSU.

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Just now, Arcana said:

Alright, so theres no problem on it?

So long as you're not running a 7980XE at retard-speed, I'm pretty confident in saying that you're golden.

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2 minutes ago, DimasRMDO said:

NVIDIA recommends a minimum of 500W, higher than that is more than enough.

I've been wondering that as well, maybe it's for a headroom. I'm running GTX 970 (MSI) on a 500W PSU.

cool thanks!

2 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

So long as you're not running a 7980XE at retard-speed, I'm pretty confident in saying that you're golden.

im not xD im gonna upgrade an i5 8400 soon

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