Curious about power consumption with new components!

[TheLochnessDido]

Hey everyone, I am entirely new to Tom's Hardware and this is the first time ever asking the community and I'm super excited!

With that being said, I have a question I wanted to ask. Currently, I am running a GTX 960 2 gb for GPU, and an AMD FX 8350 for CPU. I have only 8 gbs of DDR3 ram currently. I am running a Rosewill 600 watt power supply (which for further specs please see link https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16817182277/specs) and an MSI MS-7693 MOBO. As many of us know, tax time is coming! Which means it's time for me to upgrade old dusty and get her up to chops.

The question that I have come to humbly ask all you experts is will that power supply be enough to power an upgrade to a GTX 1070 and upgrading to G Skill Ripjaw X 16 gb x2 DDR3 ram? If anyone has any different upgrade ideas or anything let me know! I'm not necessarily new to this computer business but I am far from an expert so any assistance from you guys would be awesome. Thanks a lot!

 

[ScottMescudder]

Yes that power supply will work fine and since the GTX 1070 only requires a minimum of 500w you will be able to run it just fine and overclock if needed. Note that the minimum 500w does not mean it takes up 500w, it only means that 500w is a good recommended baseline for a system running the card and everything else. Also the RAM will do just fine along with the Rosewill.

Thanks for joining!

 

[TheLochnessDido]

Thanks so much!

 

[Aeacus]

GTX 1070 uses up to 150W, add the rest of the system at about 225W and total would be 375W. Your 600W PSU is enough by the wattage.

Btw, your newegg link is dead.