980 ti psu requirement

[TinTin700]

what's recommend PSU requirement to run GTX 980 Ti?

 

[IntelTurtleFan]

What are your other parts? Ill say 750 will be good enough for most builds.
But it must be a GOOD one. If you have a cheap Corsair or another brand that makes cheap PSUs you will need to upgrade or you risk damaging the 980TI.

 

[lucas7004]

700 watts minimum

 

[JackNaylorPE]

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2311121/power-supply-requirements-nvidia-gpus.html#14243229

980 - http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-980/specifications

Quote:
980 Thermal and Power Specs:
98 C = Maximum GPU Tempurature (in C)
165 W = Graphics Card Power (W)
500 W = Minimum System Power Requirement (W)
2x 6-pins = Supplementary Power Connector

SLI - 500 + n x (165 +20 peaks) = 685 watts for 2 cards

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/nvidia_geforce_gtx_970_and_980_reference_review,7.html

Subjective obtained GPU power consumption (970) = ~ 164 Watts
Subjective obtained GPU power consumption (980 )= ~ 171 Watts

Here is Guru3D's power supply recommendation:

GeForce GTX 970 or 980 - On your average system the card requires you to have a 500 Watt power supply unit.
GeForce GTX 970 or 980 in 2-way SLI - On your average system the cards require you to have an 800 Watt power supply unit as minimum.

If you are going to overclock your GPU or processor, then we do recommend you purchase something with some more stamina.

750 works for SLI if ya want to cut it to the minimum, I'd recommend an 850 if doing any overclocking. A 550 is more than enough for a single card.

Note that the cards differ substantially as to what each card is capable of drawing, so which one you buy can matter... the gigabyte model in particular

MSI 207 watts
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_980_Gaming/23.html


Gigabyte G1 342 watts
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GeForce_GTX_980_G1_Gaming/25.html

9890 Ti will be very close to the Titan which is shown on same link

 

[deestinct]

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2311121/power-supply-requirements-nvidia-gpus.html#14243229

980 - http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-980/specifications

Quote:
980 Thermal and Power Specs:
98 C = Maximum GPU Tempurature (in C)
165 W = Graphics Card Power (W)
500 W = Minimum System Power Requirement (W)
2x 6-pins = Supplementary Power Connector

SLI - 500 + n x (165 +20 peaks) = 685 watts for 2 cards

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/nvidia_geforce_gtx_970_and_980_reference_review,7.html

Subjective obtained GPU power consumption (970) = ~ 164 Watts
Subjective obtained GPU power consumption (980 )= ~ 171 Watts

Here is Guru3D's power supply recommendation:

GeForce GTX 970 or 980 - On your average system the card requires you to have a 500 Watt power supply unit.
GeForce GTX 970 or 980 in 2-way SLI - On your average system the cards require you to have an 800 Watt power supply unit as minimum.

If you are going to overclock your GPU or processor, then we do recommend you purchase something with some more stamina.

750 works for SLI if ya want to cut it to the minimum, I'd recommend an 850 if doing any overclocking. A 550 is more than enough for a single card.

Note that the cards differ substantially as to what each card is capable of drawing, so which one you buy can matter... the gigabyte model in particular

MSI 207 watts
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_980_Gaming/23.html


Gigabyte G1 342 watts
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GeForce_GTX_980_G1_Gaming/25.html

Dude, he's asking for 980 ti....not 980 lol...

 

[JackNaylorPE]

980 Ti will be very close to the Titan which is shown on same link along with all other nVidia cards. Can't really quote 980 Ti specs without traveling forward in time ... LoL ....as nVidia didn't publish them till this morning.

If ya don't want to go look I'll copy paste for ya

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-titan-x/specifications

Titan X Thermal and Power Specs:
91 C = Maximum GPU Tempurature (in C)
250 W = Graphics Card Power (W)
600 W = Minimum System Power Requirement (W)
6-pin + 8-pin = Supplementary Power Connectors

SLI - 600 + n x (250 +20 peaks) = 870 watts for 2 cards

In fact, now that they have been published by nVidia as of this morning, I can confirm that they are the same, except that the Thermal limit is 1C higher. Again, the specs are on the link I gave above, repeated below for your convenience

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2311121/power-supply-requirements-nvidia-gpus.html

 

[jcsammut]

Titan X Thermal and Power Specs:
91 C = Maximum GPU Tempurature (in C)
250 W = Graphics Card Power (W)
600 W = Minimum System Power Requirement (W)
6-pin + 8-pin = Supplementary Power Connectors

SLI - 600 + n x (250 +20 peaks) = 870 watts for 2 cards

In fact, now that they have been published by nVidia as of this morning, I can confirm that they are the same, except that the Thermal limit is 1C higher. Again, the specs are on the link I gave above, repeated below for your convenience

Sorry to hijack the thread, but I guess a Corsair AX860 will not be suitable to run 2 x GTX 980 TI in SLI?

As a heads up I am currently running 2 x GTX 780 which also state 600 W = Minimum System Power Requirement (W) on http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-780/specifications and I have had no problems to date with this setup.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Blazingsattle]

The 980 ti and titan x basically cansume the same amount of power. I am not 100% on that but I am pretty sure. http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti-review,8.html
. guru recommends a different scenario but if you look there you you see the titan 2 way sli consumes about 479 wats of power. like I said I am not 100% but pretty sure . This site tested 4way sli for the titan and it rarley consumed over 800 wats.

http://us.hardware.info/reviews/6033/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-x-sli--3-way-sli--4-way-sli-review-insane-performance!

 

[MagickalMan]

What are your other parts? Ill say 750 will be good enough for most builds.
But it must be a GOOD one. If you have a cheap Corsair or another brand that makes cheap PSUs you will need to upgrade or you risk damaging the 980TI.

Yeah, Corsair makes real garbage. *sarcasm*

You can't be serious.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

The 980 ti and titan x basically cansume the same amount of power. I am not 100% on that but I am pretty sure. http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti-review,8.html
. guru recommends a different scenario but if you look there you you see the titan 2 way sli consumes about 479 wats of power. like I said I am not 100% but pretty sure . This site tested 4way sli for the titan and it rarley consumed over 800 watts.

1. I'm running two overclocked 780s and the box is plugged into a power meter. I pull 745 - 785 watts "from the wall".

2. You don't size a PSU for what it pulls on day 1..... you size it for what it pulls 3 years down the road after capacitor aging ... I typically use 15% when a quality PSU is present.

3. The purpose of buying a quality PSU is not only to get better caps but to get lower ripple and more voltage stability.... These both get worse the closer you get to the rated power draw.

4. Efficiency peaks at 50% load. Heat and noise rise with load which is also exacerbated by lower efficiency.

5. Two Gigabyte 980s can pull 684 watts all by themselves. Overclocked the reference 980 Ti breaks 310 watts (277 stock)

Yeah, Corsair makes real garbage. *sarcasm*

You can't be serious.

They most certainly do.... like just about every other PSU manufacturer

Corsair makes some great PSUs.... like the HX 650 - 850, AXi series..... they also make some terrible PSUs, Like everything with a "C" in the model name.

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story6&reid=416
Build Quality = 6 / 10

 

[Kyodo]

What are your other parts? Ill say 750 will be good enough for most builds.
But it must be a GOOD one. If you have a cheap Corsair or another brand that makes cheap PSUs you will need to upgrade or you risk damaging the 980TI.

Is the corsair CS750M to be considered cheap?

 

[JackNaylorPE]

HX 750 - 850 Good / 1050 bad
Axi Series - excellent but waaay overpriced
TX V2 - Good PSUs
Anything with a "C" in it - to be avoided
RM series - best to be avoided, tho **new** design is reportedly better.

 

[Ivan Rosic]

you should be fine whit any dicent quality 550 watt psu i personaly using Seasonic G Series 550 Watt whit msi gtx 980ti oc to 7800 memory and 1500 mhz core + i5 3570k oc to 4.2 and im fine whit it

 

[parbkingh]

Hey, I have a HP Workstation Z420, that runs on 600 Watts. Currently, I am running an Evga 970 SSC overclocked to 1400. I am wondering if this PSU will be good for a single 980 Ti? Thank you.

 

[VOREXUM]

Get a EVGA G2 0850 PSU that is a premium tier 1 PSU. Remember to never cheap out on a PSU it could damage your components

 

[mehere2]

What are your other parts? Ill say 750 will be good enough for most builds.
But it must be a GOOD one. If you have a cheap Corsair or another brand that makes cheap PSUs you will need to upgrade or you risk damaging the 980TI.

 

[caseylane144]

Is a 750 good enough for this with extreme overclocking on the cpu.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/QVprJx

 

[JackNaylorPE]

As per above post ...nVidia requires 600 watts .... A 750 would be more than enough .. tho I'd put in an 850 so you could add a 2nd card down the line in SLI and extend system life by 18-24 months.

As to the build...

Id lose the twin SSDs in favor of a single 250

You have storage capacity for the OS and 203 games ... today's games are approaching 100 GB, GTAV is 65 GB, Witcher 3 is over 40 GB. You will need additional storage ... suggest a 2 TB SSHD
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st2000dx001

Id lose the Corsair CLC .... weak pump, mixed metals, aluminum rad, loud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL8DxuUth7U