Corsair TX550M and EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC

[madsseitjespersen]

I am building a new rig, and due to a really nice sale I convinced myself into getting the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC.

However I based my basic specs on using another card and I have bought the Corsair TX550M Gold rated as my PSU (Also got that for 1/3) of the price.

Now I noticed that the gpu "needs" a 600W psu. Should I return it and use more money on a bigger psu or will it work?

No plans on overclocking, specs as follows
ASUS ROG Strix B250I
Intel Core i7-7700K
HyperX Fury DDR4 2400MHz 16GB
2x SATA SSD

Fractal Node 304 mITX

Best regards

 

[vapour]

Don't risk it, dude. Random shutdown with your GPU under load may damage your precious GPU. Return it and buy a 750W+ to be safe. For example:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($78.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $78.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-10-21 00:31 EDT-0400

 

[madsseitjespersen]

Don't risk it, dude. Random shutdown with your GPU under load may damage your precious GPU. Return it and buy a 750W+ to be safe.

But why 750w that is vastly more than the system needs? Peak is as far as I can calculate 420. Wouldent 650 gold psu be more than enough with plenty of room for error?

 

[vapour]

650 should do fine, 750 is not that much more expensive and could be beneficial if you will overclock heavily

 

[Mousemonkey]

Ignore vapour as he doesn't know what he's talking about. Your PSU punches well above it's weight and can actually pump out about 640w so if there is no overclocking going on then you will be fine using what you have and do not need to buy another PSU.

 

[vapour]

Ignore vapour as he doesn't know what he's talking about. Your PSU punches well above it's weight and can actually pump out about 640w so if there is no overclocking going on then you will be fine using what you have and do not need to buy another PSU.

Didn't know it can output 640W, good to know. However, you agree if it is max 550, not enough, right?

 

[vapour]

@ mousemonkey, can you illustrate more on that 640 claim? Couldn't find it anywhere.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Ignore vapour as he doesn't know what he's talking about. Your PSU punches well above it's weight and can actually pump out about 640w so if there is no overclocking going on then you will be fine using what you have and do not need to buy another PSU.

Didn't know it can output 640W, good to know. However, you agree if it is max 550, not enough, right?

If you don't know what a PSU can output then why are saying it's not good enough? Please do your research before recommending that people spend money that they don't need to spend,

 

[vapour]

@ mousemonkey, I am not trying to sell him a PSU. I just don't want to see his precious 1080ti get impacted by not enough PSU.
@OP, ask more people about this since that gpu is worth a lot of the money.

 

[Mousemonkey]

@ mousemonkey, I am not trying to sell him a PSU. I just don't want to see his precious 1080ti get impacted by not enough PSU.
@OP, ask more people about this since that gpu is worth a lot of the money.

Don't risk it, dude. Random shutdown with your GPU under load may damage your precious GPU. Return it and buy a 750W+

not trying to get the OP to buy a new PSU? Really?

 

[Rogue Leader]

Don't risk it, dude. Random shutdown with your GPU under load may damage your precious GPU. Return it and buy a 750W+ to be safe. For example:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($78.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $78.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-10-21 00:31 EDT-0400

Echoing MM above, completely and totally wrong. 550w is plenty for him. The "recommendations" that Nvidia and AMD put on GPUs are based on a worst case PSU (low end poor quality).

The only thing a random shutdown under load may do is corrupt some data on your hard drive, there is no chance of damaging the GPU.

Please don't spread misinformation to our membership.