CX 500 power supply quality

[Matthew Renna]

I have this power supply, the cx 500.
https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-CX500-Supply-Bronze-Certified/dp/B0092ML0MY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497560769&sr=8-1&keywords=cx500
In my system currently I have an i5 4440, two hard drives, a dvd drive, 8gb ddr3, and a 750 ti. Would this power supply be good enough to handle something like an rx 580, or a gtx 1060 without blowing up?

 

[RaDiKaL_]

Yes and no, The problem with the CX series is that its internal components are of low quality, so after some time of use it can cause problems. There are plenty of cases here on Toms where that series was the culprit of instability issues, slow performance or even the system not booting at all.

When will it fail could be in a few months or a couple of years, depending how intensive your usage is.

You can use it for now, but start saving up to get a better PSU.

 

[Matthew Renna]

Is it likely to blow up my pc if it fails?

 

[RaDiKaL_]

Nah, maybe in a couple years it will simply stop working, I still have to hear from someone getting to that point with that PSU, its quality is not great but its also not so terrible as to blow up.

 

[Sedivy]

As in explode? Heh no. But it'll just shut down eventually and before that make your system unstable. In worst case scenario it may power surge and fry your mobo at the least, mobo+cpu+gpu at most. I've had the mobo+gpu fry-up once by the psu so I speak from experience, spend extra $$ on a good quality low heat psu, it is absolutely worth it.

 

[Matthew Renna]

But I couple power a card like the rx 580 for a little while? I don't game on my pc too much. It's only about three or four hours a week and it'll be even less duing the summer.

 

[Matthew Renna]

meant to say *could* not couple

 

[Sedivy]

Yes, the psu is not defective. It'll work for a long while, just not a great quality product so won't take much abuse and when you look at performance/time, not a good value.

 

[Matthew Renna]

Thanks for the help guys, I appreciate it alot. On the supject of power supplies failing, I had a evga 430 watt in this same pc which failed after 7 months of use, didn't damage anything in the pc. In in a acer computer which I used some of it's parts to build my current pc, I was using a 300 watt power supply(not the brightest idea) and after about two months I added the 750 ti in, it died and fried the motherboard.