Can HD 6570 run on a 250w PSU?

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Yes, a 5570 will be safter to run in your system, it uses about 20w less power.
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Skrillex24

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With all my components at 100% peak, it is around 260-265
 
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No you read me wrong, all my components, INCLUDING the HD 6570 are at 265 at 100% peak, at about 90% it's around 245w. And you components will never exceed 90% unless your doing tests.
 
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Skrillex24

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I don't have it yet lol... I used extreme PSU calculator and put all my exact specs
 
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Gotcha. Well I'd estimate the minimum your current hardware is consuming will be around 200 watts. The 6570's TDP is 60 watts, but at load you'll need to allow for more (TDP is not the maximum a piece of hardware will draw). The Radeon 5450 and 6350 are rated to 19 watts so should be fine. They're not as fast, but still slightly better than your integrated. It won't be a major upgrade but it won't be expensive either and should be fine on your PSU. That PSU calculator is good, but it's optimistic interms of how much graphics card will draw. If you check out some recent reviews (GTX780 for example) you can compare TDP to maximum draw. You'll see they can be quite different (and not just high-end cards either).
 
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Well without the card it is about 209w. When I add the card, it's a 244w. I believe I would be fine seeing how I'm doing casual gaming. Like cod, sc2, hots and ac 1,2 and minecraft. Watching youtube videos and browsing the web. Maybe recording some videos.
 
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I would not run anything with that close to your max power. Max power is just that, MAX power under ideal conditions for most power supplies. It's not a rating you want to be running close to all the time. I'd get a 300+ watt PSU to use, or a lower power card. You can run a car at max speed everywhere you go, but it won't last too long doing that.
 
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That won't make that much difference, I think the difference in the different builds of the X2 CPUs are 20 watts at most. Which is not really enough overhead freed up to run the system well. You are better off spending $40 on a better power supply than risking frying your motherboard and video card if anything goes wrong. If you run the CPU-Z program it should tell you exact model of the CPU.
 
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Depends on the power supply, you want about 20-30% headroom between your max system power use and the max power supply use. The % load on the power supply depends on the system and the power supply, the more power the PSU has, the lower the load would be ofcourse.
 
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Skrillex24

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I still believe I am getting the 6570. I found out I have the 3800+ EE SFF. And the 6570 I'm getting is the ddr3 model which is 44w.
 
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