Is a 500w Power Supply enough for this Gaming Computer build?
The power supply is included with the case, and its part of a combo deal. Case/PSU - Antec Sonata III 500 Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 500W Power Supply CPU - Intel Core i3-2100 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz LGA 1155 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 2000 BX80623I32100 Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive MOBO - ASUS P8H61-M LE/CSM (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel H61 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard RAM - G.SKILL NS 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-4GBNS Video Card - XFX HD-685X-ZCFC Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card Optical Drive - SAMSUNG 22X DVD Burner SATA Model SH-222BB/BEBE - OEM Thanks in Advance!
Building a gaming PC. Will all these parts be compatible and work together properly?
First: Will it all work? Yes, yes it will.Second: Is it optimal? Well, not quite. As others have pointed out, the PSU is overkill unless you're planning a 2nd GPU later on. You can save a ton of money by cutting that back to an 80+ gold PSU that's closer to the draw the system actually needs (500W would be fine, 750W if you want room for a 2nd Maxwell based GPU later on.) You could, as others have suggested, fold that money into a better GPU.For the sound card... ditch internal sound cards. There's no reason to buy them... ever. The system board vs the internal card will be so similar as to make no difference. If you want to invest in more premium sound, go for an external sound card and move your DAC outside the case where your audio is less vulnerable to electrical noise. I'm not seeing a case in the build... so I'll start by saying that I'm bias and my favorite case for this system board (Asus Sabertooth Z97) is a Corsair Vengeance Carbide C70. It really makes a nice housing for a camo system board. I also really, really like to see more premium coolers for people going all the way up to an i7-4790K. A basic AIO (All In One) water cooler like a Corsair H100i or a Deepcool Captain 240 (very similar to the one we used in Project 1SQ by Jae Alexis Lee on Enthusiast PC Builds which was a 4790K build, though smaller) is a really good option to give you reasonable overclocking headroom.It's not a bad starting point as builds go. There are lots of little tweaks that could make it better, and as always, I'm happy to discuss any options in comments.
How many watts of power supply is required for a gaming PC?
Honestly, 300W is more than enough for most entry-level to mid-range systems for up to GTX 1060.But it really makes little sense to pay $20 for a 300W PSU when you can get 450W Bronze 80+ units like the EVGA 450BT for $25. If you already have a decent 300W PSU, your only issue going higher than GTX 1050 Ti will be whether or not you have a 6-pin connector.Dual core i3 CPUs use about 50W max, while the i5 tends to run 65W. The only current mainstream i7 that uses more power than that right now is the i7–7700K, which has a TDP of 91W.Case fans and SSDs use about five watts each, so they don’t amount to much—I usually figure 40W total for MB, drives, and RAM—then add CPU and GPU TDP to get a very extreme power figure.So, for a quad-core i3–8100 and a GTX 1070, figure your 40W basis, and add 65W for the CPU and 150W for the 1070. This gives you a figure that exceeds the absolute max that your components could ever use all running simultaneously at full bore. The ballpark for this typical gaming system totals 255W.Your peak power efficiency is at 50% of the PSU capacity, with the sweet spot being 40% to 75%. For peak efficiency, you want your absolute peak possible output to be about 75% of the system’s rated capacity, which for our example comes in at 340W.Anything above that is overkill for a single-monitor system, but you definitely would rather err or on the high side, so even 400W is way more than enough. For a dual GPU 1070 SLI, you’ll want to add the 150W TDP for the second card and go with a 550W or 600W power box.Know that in using older hardware, power requirements can increase considerably. I just picked up a GTX 770 Founders’ Edition, which has a TDP of 250W, so I will be using a modular Rosewill Glacier 550W, mostly just because I don’t have any other PSUs with both an 8-pin and a 6-pin connector.
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?
Can a 1600W power supply handle a powerful gaming PC?
Assuming that it’s really a 1600W power supply, and not some no-name junk brand that puts a sticker with a big number on the box to sell it at a higher price, then 1600W is more than enough for even a highly overclocked PC with dual GTX 1080 Ti graphics cards.As a back-of-the-envelope calculation:Intel Core i7 7700K TDP - 91WSamsung 960 SSD - 5WNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti - 250W (x2)Closed-loop water cooler - 10WRAM (4 DIMMS) - 10WTotal 616WNote that this doesn’t include the power used by the motherboard (I’d say less than 10W at full tilt) and I haven’t included any case lighting or anything like that.So, you would have a comfortable amount of headroom even with a power supply that’s genuinely capable of supplying 800 W (that’s 800 real Watts, not marketing Watts). 1600W is overkill. Were I building a PC with these specs, I’d probably put a 800 or even 1000W power supply in to be on the safe side.You’d only need 1600W if you have lots of graphics cards and cooling (for mining cryptocurrency) or heaps of hard drives in RAID, but for a gaming PC, you don’t want lots of spinning hard drives, you want the fastest SSD storage you can get.