Thermaltake 650w PSU for MSI GTX 980ti Gaming 6GB

abipu

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Hlw, I'm new to this forum and this is my firts post.

I have following PC setup
Core i7 870 (2.93gz) with Thermaltake cpu cooler
8gb ram
intel dh55pj MB
1tb Hdd
MSI gtx 770 gaming graphics card
6 cooling fan
External sound card
Thermaltake 650w psu link(http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=N82E16817153040)
in near future I want to upgrade my gpu to msi gtx 980ti gaming...

now my questions are....
1. could my psu handle the gpu?

2. my i7 870 bottolneck the system or not ?

Thanks in advance for any response...

 
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Yes your PSU can easily handle this GPU, your i7 will bottleneck it in some games, the i7 is a bit better than the i3 4160 which is a low end but not terrible CPU. The i3 4160 is a good gaming CPU. You will definitely see a massive performance boost

Rhezner

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Yes your PSU can easily handle this GPU, your i7 will bottleneck it in some games, the i7 is a bit better than the i3 4160 which is a low end but not terrible CPU. The i3 4160 is a good gaming CPU. You will definitely see a massive performance boost
 
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