450W safe for i5 and 1070ti?

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i have 3led fan-s in my pc, 1 normal fan, then i have cpu cooler Raijintek Leto CPU-Cooler RGB and i5-8400 with gtx 1070ti, in the future i dont want to upgrade anything and i wanna make sure that a good 450W PSU can handle all these components
 
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Yes, that is a very good UNIT. :)
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-gtx-1070-ti/

Nvidia isn't going to sell 3rd party cards. Reference draw for a ti according to nvidia is 180w. Of course that's reference, OC 3rd party cards like the FTW 2 will naturally pull more, and a dual 8pin shouldn't be used on a 450w psu.
 


There aren't any 1070Ti reference cards, never was even from the beginning.

They sold those Crippled 1080 chips to make the 1070Ti's to the partner makers.

Actually the 1070Ti's pull more power than the 1080's, looks like they had to raise the wattage for the 1070Ti's.

That was the main thing the reviewers used to mislead people, comparing the partner 1070Ti's to reference 1080's. There never was an apple to apple comparison reference card to compare. So the results were artificially closer than they really are when a real apples to apples comparison was done later with the partner 1080's. And then they started using slower GDDR5X memory at 10,000 instead of 11,000 in the 1080's so that also was a factor.

My GTX 1080 FTW2 came with 11,000 GDDR5X memory out of the box. (Got mine before they changed to the slower memory)

I remember that all too well.

 


There wasn't any from the beginning. 😉

Maybe they got around to making some much later on.

NONE were available for a VERY lone time.