Will 550 watts PSU be enough?

philosoph3r

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Hi all, will a Corsair VS550 550 watts PSU be sufficient to run this setup -

Intel 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 i3 4150
Asus Nvidia GTX 960
GIGABYTE GA-H97M-D3H Motherboard
3 SATA hard drives
1 DVD drive

From the power consumption calculations of each individual component, the usage barely comes to 400 watts so it seems ok.
 
Solution
Power caluclators are not very good, your looking at more like 275 Watts during a full system stress test and around 200 during normal use like gaming.
Yes the 550 is fine and will allow for some future upgrades.


More than enough to handle this system :).