I want to meet the requirements of GTX 970 and/or 960

Petirdo

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This will be the components of my PC:
PS: I already have everything, including the case, except the graphics card, the power supply( i have a 350W at the moment), and one of the G.Skill ram.
For GTX 960:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/cL9wr7
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/cL9wr7/by_merchant/
For GTX 970:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/HsQYcc
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/HsQYcc/by_merchant/
I want to make to sure that my choice of power supply meet the need of GTX 960.
System Power Supply Requirements for a single GeForce GTX 960:
• NVIDIA specifies a minimum of a 400 Watt or greater system power supply. (Minimum system power requirement based on a PC configured with an Intel Core i7 3.2GHz 130 Watt TDP processor.)
• the system power supply must also have a maximum combined +12 Volt continuous current rating of 28 Amps or greater
• the system power supply should also have at least one 75-Watt 6-pin PCI Express supplementary power connector.
Which one of these would satisfy the card's needs?
SeaSonic S12II Bronze 620W 80 PLUS Certified PSU or 520W
HEC Cougar CMX 700W PSU
I don't know the exact requirements for GTX 970, so I would like to know if my power supply can still meet them?
Also, I would like to ask if there is a great difference between Gigabyte, MSI, or ASUS, and which is better concerning this graphics card.
Last but not least, my friend bought this graphics card and he told that it has some kind of an auto overclock feature. He knows his way around overclocking and all, but my concern is if this auto overclock is true, how exactly does it work? If i need more power while playing a game like battlefield 4 it will overclock to a point ?! If yes, should I get a good cooler device like water pipes, or it won't be like manual overclocking, and can I control the maximum point it can overclock to, or it may have some repercussions by doing so and i shouldn't even concern myself.
I am sorry for taking too much of your time, but I would greatly appreciate any help indeed.
Thank you in advance.
 
Get Seasonic 500W PSU. Gigabyte and ASUS are good brands. I assume you're referencing boost clock. All modern video cards have a boost clock which it can clock up to assuming thermals and power delivery are good.
 


Seasonic 500W will work well with both GTX 960 and 970 ?
so to make sure i understand, the boost clock is the auto over-clocking i was referring about, and if i have a good power supply and cooler system to keep temperature in the optimum boundaries of that card, it will be fine and won't damage anything and there is no need to control it. This is different from the manual over-clock in which you use the bios and msi afterburner for example, right?
Thank you for your help. 😀
 


That really helped clarifying a lot of things.
Thank you again 😀