What Power PSU

[Woodyz82]

Hi All,

Could I get some advise please on what PSU I should be looking at, upgrading my system - it’s nothing that fancy as I’m not really a hardcore gamer and never get as much free time to warrant a top end build (kids and work eh!)

Anyway managed a bit of a bargain, AMD FX8350, 16GB RAM and a GA 990FXA UD3 board for £100 (Used obviously) as my old dated system is on its way out.

Will be running an 120GB SSD, a 500GB sata drive, sata dvd writer, Nvidia GT620 and that’s your lot other than a few fans / liquid cooler and maybe one of the temperature / fan control / LCD displays.

Might upgrade the video card at some stage as it’s a bit of a weak link, but nothing top top end.

What should I be looking at? 650W ? 700W?

I assume there is more too it than just the Wattage?

Regards Simon

 

[vapour]

GPU 30W, CPU 125W (corrected), rest~50W. times 1.25.
Any 250W+ good quality PSU can do.
Recommend Corsair CX450M/ 400 Vengence or Seasonic S12II/M12II. For example:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Power Supply: Corsair - CXM (2015) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£48.95 @ Box Limited)
Total: £48.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-11-03 03:14 GMT+0000

450 can get you up to GTX 1070. I don't think you will pair that CPU with 1080+

 

[animemangamer]

OP, it usually comes down to how high end ot how many video graphics card you plan to use since it's the component that draws the most wattage second to the power supply unit. My dual 8 pin GTX 1080 Ti says on the box minimum 600w PSU and thats already accounting every component in your system. I'm using 850w but I doubt I'm using more than 50% even at full load. My PSU fan never spin indicating it never gets hot enough to warrant cooling.

To answer your question then a simple 400-500w is good enough unless you plan the highest end GPU cards or SLI

 

[Lucky_SLS]

BTW, isn't the 8350 a 125w cpu? I would recommend a 650w if you are gonna get a 250w gpu. Here is a good find : https://pcpartpicker.com/product/Mf3RsY/seasonic-power-supply-s12g750