Is a 450w Power Supply too weak for 1050 4gb card?

degrassinoel

Hey,

still mucking around with a cheap build here - just short of a GPU and have the machine working well otherwise.

Anyway, here's the spec


Ram 2 4gb Dimms - HyperX HX424C15FBK2/8 FURY 8 GB DDR4 2400 MHz Memory Kit (2 x 4 GB) (Skylake Ready), Black
Storage - Seagate Barracuda 7200 Desktop 1 TB Hard Drive
CPU - Intel BX80662I36100 Core i3 6100 Skylake Dual-Core 3.7 GHz Processor
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-H110M-S2H Ultra Durable Motherboard

and a cheapo ATX case

it's run me around 350 quid so far but i'm a bit concerned that the power supply which is a Corsair ATX 450W, may not be strong enough to keep the machine on if a powerful GPU is in there, it's grand now and quiet as a mouse and all, but yeah.. what do ye reckon?
If a 4gb is out of the question, would a 2gb card do?

K.O.Kiki

It's fine.
https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3036-how-far-can-450w-get-you-for-a-gaming-pc-wattage
Doubt that system will pull over 300250W tbh.

degrassinoel

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

It's fine.
https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3036-how-far-can-450w-get-you-for-a-gaming-pc-wattage
Doubt that system will pull over 300250W tbh.

Deadly cheers!

Skerries

use a calculator like this and rule of thumb is to add on 50 watts

TerrorFirmer

I think that PC would literally pull about 160w under heavy sustained load. Even a GTX1080 8GB would be fine on that PSU.

TerrorFirmer

Also it's worth going a little extra for the GTX1050Ti over the regular 1050 if you can, cheapest 1050ti's aren't much more and it is a good bit better.

degrassinoel

Skerries wrote: »

use a calculator like this and rule of thumb is to add on 50 watts

Favorited that, that's class, thanks

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Also it's worth going a little extra for the GTX1050Ti over the regular 1050 if you can, cheapest 1050ti's aren't much more and it is a good bit better.

Yeah, that's the plan, just need the cash to get get it now ha