Wattage Calculation Help

[fizzyfez]

I need an online wattage calculator or someone to help me.

Specs: AMD fx 8350 4 ghz
Radeon 7950
two 4gb sticks of ddr3 ram
1tb HDD and 128gb SSD
Thanks

 

[nukemaster]

A quality 550 watt unit should handle that system fine. While you may be able to get by with less, I like to recommend a bit of headroom.

The 7950 has similar gaming power use to the old 5870(impressive for the extra performance). I have had overclocked systems with that video card and saw full loads under 400 watts(at the wall).

Please ensure you are getting a quality power supply with a large portion of its overall power on the 12 volt rails because cheap ones or old designed put more of the power on the less used lower rails(3.3/5)

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

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[RetiredChief]

^ Concur

Not a lover of On-line calculators. Prefer to "Google" a review of GPU and look at what they show for system power - Must users will will be slightly less

Your system should be between 300-> 400 Watts, hence the above recommendations for a 500->550 Watt PSU is correct - Plan on Xfire down stream bump it up to a 650 Watt - Just make sure PSU is a quality PSU as there are some out there that should only be used to prop the door open. SR-71's recommendation is great.