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Will my Corsair RM650 safely power a 1060?

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Im going to be upgrading from my old gtx 770 soon to a GTX 1060 (GIGABYTE), but before I do I want to make sure I dont have to upgrade my psu, seeing as how im going to have a tight budget.
Here are my specs for any of you who can help:

CPU
Intel Core i5 4690K @ 3.50GHz
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz (11-11-11-28) [about to be 16 gigs]
Motherboard
ASRock Z97X Killer (CPUSocket)
Graphics
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 (NVIDIA)
Storage
931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER162 (SATA)
698GB Seagate ST3750528AS (SATA)
 
Solution
The GTX 1060 is optimized to reduce power consumption. You can even run a GTX 1070 with that PSU tho. Don't worry, you still have plenty of power left with those 650W.

Is that 4690K overclocked? Or at stock speed?
The GTX 1060 is optimized to reduce power consumption. You can even run a GTX 1070 with that PSU tho. Don't worry, you still have plenty of power left with those 650W.

Is that 4690K overclocked? Or at stock speed?
 
Solution


Yes, usually at 4 ghz when playing anything other than Stardew Valley
 


Got it, well, that's not a big overclock, so you definetly won't have problems with the GPU change, go for it!