[SOLVED] PSU for an RTX 3070 ?

[NewToGamingPc's]

Greetings! Im thinking of buying an RTX 3070 from ASUS and I got a Ryzen 5 3600 cpu with a 550 watt corsair PSU and was wondering if it can handle that for a couple of months, B450-F motherboard with corsair vengeance ram 3200mhz. Im buying an 750 watt PSU later but for now I cant afford one.

 

[General Kenobi]

Greetings! Im thinking of buying an RTX 3070 from ASUS and I got a Ryzen 5 3600 cpu with a 550 watt corsair PSU and was wondering if it can handle that for a couple of months, B450-F motherboard with corsair vengeance ram 3200mhz. Im buying an 750 watt PSU later but for now I cant afford one.

Nope the recommended psu is 650 watt, your current psu won't handle🙁
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidias-rtx-3000-power-supply-requirements-PSU-shortage-2020

 

[NewToGamingPc's]

I treid the watt calculator and it said im using 425 watts with 3070 and my build so idk why u say 650 is minimum?

 

[Archaic59]

Greetings! Im thinking of buying an RTX 3070 from ASUS and I got a Ryzen 5 3600 cpu with a 550 watt corsair PSU and was wondering if it can handle that for a couple of months, B450-F motherboard with corsair vengeance ram 3200mhz. Im buying an 750 watt PSU later but for now I cant afford one.

What model Corsair 550W PSU? How long has it been in service?

 

[NewToGamingPc's]

https://www.komplett.no/product/915...roemforsyning/enheter/corsair-tx550m-550w-psu (corsair-tx550m) 8 months

 

[Juular]

PSU wattage recomendations (and for Ampere especially) are based more on peak load (stress tests and millisecond power draw peaks) than on average\sustained, and that with high-est end hardware a regular consumer can get. Your gaming load with R5 3600 would be considerably lower than that, 550W is a plenty. So try it, if it's stable (no shutdowns) then it's fine.

 

[NewToGamingPc's]

PSU wattage recomendations (and for Ampere especially) are based more on peak load (stress tests and millisecond power draw peaks) than on average\sustained, and that with high-est end hardware a regular consumer can get. Your gaming load with R5 3600 would be considerably lower than that, 550W is a plenty. So try it, if it's stable (no shutdowns) then it's fine.

Thanks for this info, I will indeed buy the GPU and try it out