Can I use a 500W PSU with a RTX 2070?

[BeautyDay]

I was planning to wait for next-gen Nvidia GPU. After confirmed specification of RTX family, 2070 version comes with TDP of almost 185W. I have a 500W 80+ bronze PSU.  Here's my spec:
1. Ryzen 5 2600x
2. Corsair 8GB 2133Mhz
3. 250GB M.2 SSD
4. Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm
5. 3x 120mm fans
Can I run this card with this system? or will I have to upgrade?

[IdiotPenguin]

Nvidia’s website saids 550w recommended but I wouldn’t risk it.

 

To be safe I’d say get a better psu

[knightslugger]

35 minutes ago, IdiotPenguin said:

Nvidia’s website saids 550w recommended but I wouldn’t risk it.

 

To be safe I’d say get a better psu

500 will do it just fine (so long as nothing is overclocked to the moon and back).

[stewi1014]

Worst case is the PSU can't keep up under load and the system crashes while the OS has cached writes to some important files -> Reinstall OS/Lose important files.

 

The way I see it;

Unlikely the PSU won't work,

Unlikely it not working will cause damage.

 

A small probability times a small probability is a very small chance.

I'd keep it and see what happens.

 

Edit: I think it's worth noting that if the PSU is insufficient, you'll only notice once the PC draws more power than the PSU can supply; the PC will likely only crash while under high load.

 

[-rascal-]

A quality 500W should be enough.

The question big-money is, WHICH "500W 80+ Bronze" PSU do you have???

[BeautyDay]

Hey everyone, thanks for the replies.

 

This is my exact PSU:

 

EVGA 100-W1-0500-KR 500 W1, 80+ WHITE 500W, 3 Year Warranty, Power Supply 100-W1-0500-KR

 

Will it work?

[Loadent]

Yep

[-rascal-]

16 hours ago, BeautyDay said:

Hey everyone, thanks for the replies.

 

This is my exact PSU:

 

EVGA 100-W1-0500-KR 500 W1, 80+ WHITE 500W, 3 Year Warranty, Power Supply 100-W1-0500-KR

 

Will it work?

 

1 hour ago, Loadent said:

Yep

 

That is NOT a 80 PLUS Bronze EVGA PSU...

EVGA White series Tier-6 unit...one step away from the bottom-of-the-barrel quality.

Why would you buy such a low grade PSU for a system like that?!

AND you want to use a RTX 2070.

 

The EVGA 500B is ~$5 more than the 500 W1 ...

The Corsair TXM 550W 80 PLUS Gold just less than $10 more..

 

The PSU is one of the MOST IMPORTANT components in ANY PC, it is essentially the back-bone.

 

I am going to see what @Stefan Payne @STRMfrmXMN @jonnyGURU has to say about this...

Personally, I would recommend that you swap that PSU out first before even thinking of getting anything else first.

[Stefan Payne]

On 10/16/2018 at 10:16 PM, BeautyDay said:

I was planning to wait for next-gen Nvidia GPU. After confirmed specification of RTX family, 2070 version comes with TDP of almost 185W. I have a 500W 80+ bronze PSU.  Here's my spec:
1. Ryzen 5 2600x
2. Corsair 8GB 2133Mhz
3. 250GB M.2 SSD
4. Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm
5. 3x 120mm fans
Can I run this card with this system? or will I have to upgrade?

16 hours ago, BeautyDay said:

This is my exact PSU:

EVGA 100-W1-0500-KR 500 W1, 80+ WHITE 500W, 3 Year Warranty, Power Supply 100-W1-0500-KR

 

Will it work?

Wrong question.

Its not if it will work, its will it work and not destroy my components?

Because for the latter its NO.
The former is a maybe but the probability of issues is rather high.

 

So you should replace the PSU. If we aren't talkin gabout OC, a good quality 450W should be enough.

 

My usual recommendations:
be quiet Straight Power 11, Bitfenix Formula, Whisper M, Cougar GX-F

 

Depending on where you live and what's available...

 

[Guest]

On 10/16/2018 at 8:23 PM, BeautyDay said:

Hey everyone, thanks for the replies.

 

This is my exact PSU:

 

EVGA 100-W1-0500-KR 500 W1, 80+ WHITE 500W, 3 Year Warranty, Power Supply 100-W1-0500-KR

 

Will it work?

Not with that PSU.  Recycle that one and get a decent quality 550W.

 

In your OP you said it was Bronze.  It's not even that.  Even if you had a Bronze PSU, it's capability would be questionable because there'd be a good chance that it wouldn't use a resonant LLC topology and DC to DC.

[SzaboAttila]

Do yall think a no name (Raidmax Cobra RX-700AE-B) 700W 80plus gold psu will be enough? @jonnyGURU @Stefan Payne @-rascal-

[Badger906]

Grab a corsair 650w. Only brand i personally trust 

[andyme]

one of this would do 

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9q4NnQ/evga-power-supply-220g20650y1

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/R2mxFT/corsair-power-supply-cp9020103na

[Badger906]

26 minutes ago, andyme said:

one of this would do 

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9q4NnQ/evga-power-supply-220g20650y1

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/R2mxFT/corsair-power-supply-cp9020103na

I would personally use the corsair one. Always used corsair for basically everything. 

 

Only issue compared to the evga one you linked is that it's not fully modular. The main 24 pin cable is permanent. Which is fine. Just if you ever wanted to use custom braided cables youd have to use an extension to change its colour. 

[-rascal-]

7 hours ago, SzaboAttila said:

Do yall think a no name (Raidmax Cobra RX-700AE-B) 700W 80plus gold psu will be enough? @jonnyGURU @Stefan Payne @-rascal-

 

No. Please, no.

It is advertised as 80 PLUS Gold efficiency, but the build quality and DC output quality is garbage -- it's worst than some 80 PLUS Bronze PSUs.

HardOCP gave the Raidmax Cobra 500W a *FAIL*

The older 1000W version was just as bad...

 

For a system with a single GPU since you are going to be using a MSi B450M Bazooka, a good built quality, and stable, 500W ~ 550W will be enough. If you want some extra headroom, you can also get a ~600W.

 

 

5 hours ago, Badger906 said:

I would personally use the corsair one. Always used corsair for basically everything. 

 

Only issue compared to the evga one you linked is that it's not fully modular. The main 24 pin cable is permanent. Which is fine. Just if you ever wanted to use custom braided cables youd have to use an extension to change its colour. 

 

The EVGA G2 is a Tier-1 unit versus Tier-3 for the Corsair CXM; the EVGA one is by far the better build quality unit.

The G2 / G3 is comparable to the Cosair's TX and RM lines.

[Turtle Rig]

On 10/16/2018 at 1:16 PM, BeautyDay said:

I was planning to wait for next-gen Nvidia GPU. After confirmed specification of RTX family, 2070 version comes with TDP of almost 185W. I have a 500W 80+ bronze PSU.  Here's my spec:
1. Ryzen 5 2600x
2. Corsair 8GB 2133Mhz
3. 250GB M.2 SSD
4. Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm
5. 3x 120mm fans
Can I run this card with this system? or will I have to upgrade?

I think you should be more worried about upgrading your RAM to 16GB then whether a 2070 can handle your 500w psu.  Yes it can handle it, however you just might get some BSOD or issue in the future, but techinically when you game your going to use 280 to 480 max wattage on your rig thats max,, so ya it can handle it , but its breathing hard that's all.

[Zando_]

8 minutes ago, Turtle Rig said:

I think you should be more worried about upgrading your RAM to 16GB then whether a 2070 can handle your 500w psu.  Yes it can handle it, however you just might get some BSOD or issue in the future, but techinically when you game your going to use 280 to 480 max wattage on your rig thats max,, so ya it can handle it , but its breathing hard that's all.

Nope nope nope. That PSU is horrible, and a bad PSU won't just give you BSODs. It can totally toast your entire system. Getting a quality PSU is *always* cheaper than replacing your entire rig when a crappy one fails. I'd defo be a lot more worried about the PSU than the RAM. 

[Turtle Rig]

3 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Nope nope nope. That PSU is horrible, and a bad PSU won't just give you BSODs. It can totally toast your entire system. Getting a quality PSU is *always* cheaper than replacing your entire rig when a crappy one fails. I'd defo be a lot more worried about the PSU than the RAM. 

OH shoot, it's bronze... Yes 500w is coming close but youll make it but its bronze and ya youll try to OC and it might flop on you etc.. Get a good one if you gonna do it, do it right.

 

 

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, Turtle Rig said:

OH shoot, it's bronze... Yes 500w is coming close but youll make it but its bronze and ya youll try to OC and it might flop on you etc.. Get a good one if you gonna do it, do it right.

 

 

Bronze = efficiency, not quality, as all the PSU pro bois here can tell you. That's a terrible PSU no matter what efficiency rating they give it. 

[Turtle Rig]

6 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Bronze = efficiency, not quality, as all the PSU pro bois here can tell you. That's a terrible PSU no matter what efficiency rating they give it. 

Well ya quality is one thing that is the efficiency of the PSU and that is probably not very efficient thus causing crashes etc.  Get a good 600w PSU gold rating you can find for 80 bucks or so.

[SzaboAttila]

https://seasonic.com/m12ii-evo Thoughts? @Turtle Rig @Zando Bob @-rascal-

 

[Zando_]

2 hours ago, SzaboAttila said:

https://seasonic.com/m12ii-evo Thoughts? @Turtle Rig @Zando Bob @-rascal-

 

According to all the PSU Pros, it's pretty crappy. It's an ancient design, you can get much better PSUs for the same price. 

[Turtle Rig]

2 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

According to all the PSU Pros, it's pretty crappy. It's an ancient design, you can get much better PSUs for the same price. 

A bronze rating, sighs... Hope you don't plan to OC anything.  Get the seasonic like Bob said.  Although we think of the motherboard as the heart of the rig, But honestly the PSU is what drives the mobo and everything else and must be high quality unless your not gonna OC and dont care if you get a BSOD here and there.  The seasonic will do you justice man. 

[-rascal-]

7 hours ago, SzaboAttila said:

https://seasonic.com/m12ii-evo Thoughts? @Turtle Rig @Zando Bob @-rascal-

 

 

No, I would not recommend this PSU, especially in 2018 / 2019.

If you asked the same question in 2012 ~ 2015, I would have said it was alright...personally.

 

Checking US prices.. the SeaSonic M12II EVO 520W $54.99 with an additional $20 Mail-in Rebate = $34.99

The 620W version is $55.

 

1. Corsair CX 550W (2017 revision, non-modular) is $49.99 with additional $20 rebate = $29.99
2. Corsair CX 550W (2017 revision, non-modular) is $55.99 with additional $20 rebate = $35.99
3. EVGA G2 550W is on sale, $49.99 with $10 rebate = $39.99

Any of these 3 PSUs are using a better, for up-to-date, design than the SeaSonic M12II EVO for around the same price.

It's hard to recommend it at the moment.

[SzaboAttila]

14 hours ago, -rascal- said:

 

No, I would not recommend this PSU, especially in 2018 / 2019.

If you asked the same question in 2012 ~ 2015, I would have said it was alright...personally.

 

Checking US prices.. the SeaSonic M12II EVO 520W $54.99 with an additional $20 Mail-in Rebate = $34.99

The 620W version is $55.

 

1. Corsair CX 550W (2017 revision, non-modular) is $49.99 with additional $20 rebate = $29.99
2. Corsair CX 550W (2017 revision, non-modular) is $55.99 with additional $20 rebate = $35.99
3. EVGA G2 550W is on sale, $49.99 with $10 rebate = $39.99

Any of these 3 PSUs are using a better, for up-to-date, design than the SeaSonic M12II EVO for around the same price.

It's hard to recommend it at the moment.

Unfortunately in my country there are no evga psus at all, and just a few corsair ones but their price is way more higher than in the US, can you guys @-rascal- @Zando Bob @Turtle Rig reccomend me one from here? https://m.gigatron.rs/napajanja/1?prikaz=grid&poredak=rastuci&proizvodjac=cooler_master+seasonic (100 rsd or din=1$)