600W enough to overclock zotac gtx 980 ti

[Guest]

PSU - Coolermaster Thunder 600W PSU

I want to do kind of a decent overclock just like in the link below. Would I be fine?

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/nvidia_geforce_gtx_980_ti_review,36.html

cpu i7 4790
1hdd

 

[Onus]

That's a cheap Coolermaster PSU. Its label may not accurately depict what it is capable of producing. I'm not sure I would trust it to power a stock 980Ti.

 

[MarkW]

Quoting Guru3D.com (from your link above):

Much like the GM200 Maxwell GPU harbored in Titan X, this GTX 980 Ti is rated as having a 250 Watt TDP, our measurements back that up, bear in mind that this is a peak maximum value under full stress. At this performance level you are looking at a card that consumes roughly 450 Watts for the PC in total, that is okay. We think a ~650 Watts PSU would be sufficient and, if you go with 2-way SLI, an 800~900 Watts power supply is recommended. Remember when purchasing a PSU, aim to double up in Wattage as your PSU is most efficient when it is under 50% load. Here again keep in mind we measure peak power consumption, the average power consumption is a good notch lower depending on GPU utilization. Also, if you plan to overclock the CPU/memory and / or GPU with added voltage, please do purchase a power supply with enough reserve. People often underestimate it, but if you tweak all three aforementioned variables, you can easily add 200 Watts to your peak power consumption budget.

So roughly 450 watts for the base system and the GTX 980Ti without overclocking, and another 200 watts to cover overclocking. We have reached 650 watt potential used, and just to be safe and run the power supply at less than its maximum load, I would go with a 800w to 900w unit. I would also make sure I selected a high quality power supply. You don't want cheap stuff at these power levels.

 

[blazorthon]

I think you misunderstood that article... The GTX 980 Ti won't ever use anywhere near 450W even with overclocking unless you have two of them. A decent 650W unit would be plenty, anything over a 750W is excessive for a single 980 Ti even with huge overclocking. Over 850W is ridiculous.

For the record, that 450W number in the article is for the whole system, not the card itself. That extra 200W number from overclocking is if you overclock the entire system and have SLI.

 

[MarkW]

Ok, I adjusted the numbers above.

 

[Onus]

MarkW's amended posts looks good. The CoolerMaster Thunder is a low-end PSU, unlikely to be good for its label (cleanly), so the short answer to the OP is "No."

 

[Guest]

How about the G650M. I heard good news about it and the G750M?

 

[MarkW]

Those are Tier 3 too.. low quality. I'll post a list of units I made last month for you. These are all good units.

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  ■ Any Seasonic built power supply
  ■ EVGA SuperNova G2 / P2 / T2 / GS / PS
  ■ Enermax DigiFanless 500w
  ■ Silverstone Nightjar Platinum 520w
  ■ Super Flower Leadex Gold / Platinum / Golden King / Golden Silent / 430w
  ■ XFX Pro series Black edition / Pro series XXX Semi-Modular / XTR series / XTS Fanless
  ■ Antec EDGE / Earthwatts Delta Electronics/ Earthwatts Platinum FSP / High Current Gamer
  ■ Azza Platinum Super Flower
  ■ Be Quiet Straight Power 10 FSP
  ■ Cooler Master VS Series Enhance
  ■ Corsair RM 850w
  ■ Enermax Platimax
  ■ EVGA Supernova B2
  ■ Firepower Silencer MK III 400 500 600 / 750 850 / ZX
  ■ Rosewill Capstone / Lightning / Silent Night 500 Watts / Tachyon
  ■ SilentumPC Supremo M1 Gold 550w Sirfa
  ■ Silverpower SP 460w / Strider Gold Evolution Enhance / Strider Plus
  ■ Super Flower Golden Green / Modular / HX series
  ■ Sentey Golden Steel Power 850 Watts
  ■ Thermaltake Toughpower Gold 850M Enhance / Toughpower Grand Platinum 850w 1200w Enhance / Toughpower DPS Gold
  ■ XFX TS 430w / 550w-SEW