Power supply help

Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by NathanRP, Jul 28, 2016.

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  1. I recently bought computer components one obviously being the power supply and its only 430 watts and I'm wondering if that is enough for
    Xeon 1231 v3
    Gtx 960 ssc acx 2.0
    Ddr3 1866 MHz 8 gbs
    And a corsair cx430m Psu
    Western digital 1tb 7200rpm
    Kingston Ssd now 120 gb
    I just want to know if this is enough power to do light to moderate gaming but nothing too heavy (MC world of tanks, and warships maybe some other games in the future)
  2. you also may want to list the hard drives and how many as my desktop, just for the hard drives needs about 400 watts haha...
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  3. Fixed :)
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  4. You're drawing roughly 270W
    The corsair cx430m 430W PSU will cover you for some upgrades in future.
    However, what are you using to cool your CPU? this will have an effect on PSU
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  5. Just the stock cooler can't overclock the cpu so I don't think it will make a difference stock or not
  6. For that CPU it shouldn't out of interest whats mobo have you chosen?

    remember fan count in your case, as well as any peripherals you plug in will whack you closer to that 430W
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  7. That psu would probably run that just fine. You would have a little room for upgrades, but not much.
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  8. I agree, that PSU will be able to supply most of your power needs.

    When I bought my PSU I went over what I needed by like, 300+ W :p But you seem to have some room for future growth still, so you are fine for now.
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  9. 2 fans 120mm I believe
    1 monitor and 1 keyboard
  10. Yeah that psu will definitely run this. As long as you don't go too crazy with cooler upgrades and such I don't think you'll have any problems.
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  11. Even with 100% load?
  12. Unless you are overclocking or something load shouldn't bring your power consumption up enough to cause problems. Overclocking probably wouldn't do much either, I just wouldn't do too much with that stock cooler lol
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  13. Over clocking what's that? :p this cpu can't even be oc'd
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  14. 430 watts is more than enough for that build, no need to worry at all. :)
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  15. Lol I didn't even look at that. Buying a better cooler would be a waste of money then if youre just playing games so yeah, that psu will be plenty :p
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  16. Yeah I also needed to buy a graphics card because it doesn't have integrated graphics
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