Adding a New Hard Drive, is a 300W PSU Enough?

ArticFox · Jun 20, 2014

Hi there,
Right now I am looking forward to add in a new hard drive for my computer. Here are my full system specifications here. Plus, I have also recently added a NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti in this system, and I'm not sure if my power supply can handle the extra HDD as I am already pushing the limits with my 750 Ti...

clutchc · Jun 20, 2014

A typical 3 1/2" 7200 RPM hard drive only uses between 6 W and 9W of power. You're fine.

ArticFox · Jun 20, 2014

clutchc :

Alright, thanks. I guess I'm good to go!

Dark Lord of Tech · Jun 20, 2014

Depends on the quality of your power supply.

ArticFox · Jun 21, 2014

Yeah, usually power supplies on OEMs like mine aren't the best...

clutchc · Jun 21, 2014

ArticFox :

HP/Compaq and Dell used to use pretty good PSUs. Not the greatest, but very safe. I wouldn't be afraid to use the GTX 750 Ti on an HP OEM 300W. Neither is Nvidia apparently; that's their min. recommendation.
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-750-ti/specifications
The 750 Ti is only a 60W card with the new cool running Maxwell architecture.

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