400W PSU for 1060 6gb OC?

[thesnowchan]

Hello,
My current setup consists of the following

Intel i7-6700 CPU
HyperX 8gb DDR4 RAM
1 TB HDD
ASUS H170M-PLUS Motherboard

I just got a Gigabyte GTX 1060 6GB - OverClocked to 1797 Mhz Version

I have a 400W PSU from "Circle" (Got it from a local vendor years ago)

Will the PSU support my graphics card with these specs?
Also note that I have RBG Illumination on my mouse, Keyboard, Headphones and mouse-pad.

Please share your thoughts on this.
Thank you.

 

[Kenton82]

400W Is the minimum for this card, and judging by the make of your current one, it will not be outputting 400W. You would need to upgrade the PSU - and to something of good quality. Corsair RM***x series are very good, or look at something from Seasonic. Search for the PSU tier list on Tom's. Head for 500w / 600w. This will give you a nice amount of headroom. The RGB illuminations will have no impact on the PSU, as the LED's will draw so little power and is negligible.


Regards,
K

 

[Isokolon]

Does this unit even have a PCIe connector? There's not a lot of info available and the one that's available is contradicting. But from what I could gather it seems to have a poor 12V performance, no PCIe 6pin or 8pin connector, only a 4pin connector for the the CPU and although they claim several fail saves, I wouldn't trust this unit with a GTX GPU and an i7, even if it has all the connectors.

 

[Satan-IR]

I agree, that is one unreliable PSU and as you said has been working a few years.

You said the card is overclocked, whether you did that or it's factory overclocked out of the box, that means it draw a little bit more power (marginal) than same card at stock frequencies/clocks.

I would not risk the whole system on that PSU. When a mediocre PSU that fails it's highly likely can damages other components.