Is this power supply enough for my desktop build?
Is a 500 watt power supply enough or do I need a large power supply for this case? My build includes: FX-8320 - CPU MSI 760GMA-P34 - Motherboard Crucial Ballistix 16GB (8x2) - RAM Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD - SSD Sapphire R9 270X - Graphics Card Rosewill BLACKHAWK Gaming ATX Mid Tower - Computer Case EVGA 500W Bronze PSU - Power supply (Do I need a larger one?)
Is a 300 watt power supply enough for a gtx 1060?
so i bought an hp pavilion desktop on sale at walmart. and supposedly its got a core i5 7400, gtx 1060 3gb, 8gb ram, 1tb hard drive. but i opened the computer up qiocly to check if i can add an ssd and i looked at the power supply and its a lite-on 300 watt 80+ bronze. but i also check the minimum power requirement for the gtx 1060 and it said atleast 400 watt. is the power supply enough for the gtx 1060?
Is a 300 watt power supply enough for a gaming pc?
Well, it's a hard question... but for a gaming pc you should definitely go with a minimum of 400-500. Your video card alone can use upwards to 230 watts so I don't think the 7600 GT is the answer, maybe an 8600 GTS or something like that, but the 3870 requires at least 450 watts, so it'll be risky to use it on a 300 W PSU, and probably 3850 is the same... A 7 series or lower 8 series card will run fine with a 300W PSU IF the PSU has enough ampere on the 12V rail... a HD3850 should also be fine... So try to get an 8600 GTS, if I know right they don't require additional power plugs... but thats so borderline to the 300 watts and you need a really efficient PSU to keep up, and your gonna need an overhead just in case So its not worth skimping on the PSU since its pretty much the most important part of the pc.
I got 430 watt psu power supply 28 or 30 apmperes can i run gtx 460 or hd 6790 or gtx 550ti or hd 5770 ?
i got 430 watt psu power supply 28 or 30 apmperes can i run gtx 460 or hd 6790 or gtx 550ti or hd 5770 ? and which one of the graphic card is the best rate them by 1 : 2 : 3 : 4 : thanks (:
How many hard drives can I put on my 500 watt power supply (safely)?
I'd love to see pictures of this thing. It sounds like a "good hack" (he said with admiration). The problem is that a power supply rating (e.g.: 500 Watts) doesn't tell you how the power is split between the various voltages. Manufacturers design them to supply 3.3, 5 and 12 Volts in proportion to the usage in a typical configuration. That's usually lots of power at the lower voltages to supply the CPU and video chips, and relatively little power at 12 Volts to supply one or two hard drive motors and a couple of fans. So, you really need to look at the detailed specs for your hard drives, and your power supplies. You could run out of current on the 12 Volt line long before you hit the power supply's total power rating. EDIT: 8-JUN-12: Thanks for the picture! I've done a bit of "modeling" to get you a better answer. Picking a power supply and hard drive more-or-less at random from NewEgg, the specs show: Power supply: CORSAIR Builder Series CX600 V2 600W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply, +3.3V@25A, +5V@25A, +12V@40A, -12V@0.8A, +5VSB@3.0A 40 Amps on the +12 Volt rail - that's far more than I expected to see. And that's the line that spins the drives and fans. Good. Hard drive: Seagate® Barracuda® 1 TB, ST1000DM003 Startup Power (A) 2.0 Operating Mode, Typical (W) 5.90 Ignoring the 5 Volt line for now (which won't be much on a hard drive, anyway), that's about 0.5 Amps to maintain a hard drive in operation, but 2 Amps to spin it up from zero to 7200 RPM. Leaving some margin, this power supply could easily serve a disk farm with 16 of these drives. If you had some kind of sequencer to power-up the drives one at a time, it would handle far more. You'll have to perform this analysis with your own equipment in mind. But it's looking pretty good from here.